Rolfe Kent Receives Richard Kirk Award at BMI Film & TV Awards

Ceremony also honors year’s top film and television composers in Beverly Hills

Posted in News on May 17, 2012

Global music rights leader Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) held its annual Film/TV Awards tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. The ceremony saluted the composers of music featured in the past year’s top-grossing films, top-rated primetime network television series, and highest-ranking cable network programs.

Rolfe Kent received BMI’s Richard Kirk Award, which is bestowed on composers who have made significant contributions to the realm of film and television music.

Kent also took home two BMI Film/TV crystals for his work on Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Dexter. The evening’s other honorees included Mark Mothersbaugh (21 Jump Street, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked), John Williams (The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse), Michael Andrews (Bad Teacher, Bridesmaids), Thomas Newman (The Help), Cliff Martinez (Contagion), Mychael Danna (Moneyball), Christopher Lennertz (Horrible Bosses), Aaron Zigman (Madea’s Big Happy Family), Mike Post (Rob), Will Jennings (American Idol), Charlie Clouser (American Horror Story), David Buckley (PRS) (The Good Wife) and Brian Tyler (Hawaii Five-0, Terra Nova). BMI also celebrated Ludovic Bource’s (SACEM) Academy Award win for The Artist.

As the 2012 recipient of the Richard Kirk Award, Kent joins a prestigious list that includes David Arnold, Rachel Portman (PRS), Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Christopher Young, George S. Clinton, Harry Gregson-Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamen, Mark Mothersbaugh, Danny Elfman, Alan Menken, Mike Post, Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Charlie Fox and John Williams.

Rolfe Kent has succeeded in creating a body of work that is fiercely original, musically complex and artistically bold, all in the service of the films and television for which it is composed. His diverse list of credits spans intellectual comedy to slapstick, white-knuckle thrillers to drama. Kent has scored almost 50 films, including the Academy Award-nominated Up in the Air, for which he won a Golden Satellite Award; Sideways, which earned Kent a Golden Globe nomination and Critics’ Choice Award in 2007; Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Young Adult, Charlie St. Cloud, About Schmidt, Election, Mean Girls, Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde II, Wedding Crashers, The Matador, Reign Over Me, The Hunting Party, The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Thank You for Smoking and most recently Michael Hoffman’s Gambit, written by the Coen Brothers and slated for release in January 2013. In television, Kent also composed the Emmy-nominated main title theme for Showtime’s runaway hit Dexter. An in-demand collaborator, he has established strong working relationships with top-tier directors such as Richard Shepherd, Alexander Payne, Mark Waters, Jason Reitman, and Burr Steers. Kent has received an impressive 13 BMI Film & Television Awards since 2002.

The 2012 BMI Film/TV Awards were hosted by BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and BMI Vice President, Film/TV Relations Doreen Ringer Ross. For more information on BMI’s film and television composers and events, please visit www.bmi.com/filmtv.

2012 BMI Film/TV Award Winners

RICHARD KIRK AWARD
ROLFE KENT

FILM MUSIC AWARDS

21 JUMP STREET
Mark Mothersbaugh

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN
John Williams

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED
Mark Mothersbaugh

BAD TEACHER
Michael Andrews

BRIDESMAIDS
Michael Andrews

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
Alan Silvestri

CONTAGION
Cliff Martinez

CONTRABAND
Clinton Shorter (SOCAN)

COWBOYS & ALIENS
Harry Gregson-Williams

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.
Nick Urata

THE DEVIL INSIDE
Benjamin Romans

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
Atticus Ross

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2
Alexandre Desplat (SACEM)

THE HELP
Thomas Newman

HORRIBLE BOSSES
Christopher Lennertz

JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Andrew Lockington (SOCAN)

MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY
Aaron Zigman

MONEYBALL
Mychael Danna

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS
Rolfe Kent

REAL STEEL
Danny Elfman

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
Steve Jablonsky

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING
Paul Haslinger

THE VOW
Rachel Portman (PRS)

WAR HORSE
John Williams

WE BOUGHT A ZOO
Jón Þór Birgisson (PRS)

WRATH OF THE TITANS
Javier Navarrete (SGAE)

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

THE ARTIST
Ludovic Bource (SACEM)

TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS

2 BROKE GIRLS
Peter Bjorn and John (STIM)

THE AMAZING RACE
Christopher Franke
Vaughn Johnson
Lee Sanders

AMERICA’S GOT TALENT
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love

AMERICAN IDOL
Will Jennings

THE BACHELOR
Rob Cairns

BLUE BLOODS
Rob Simonsen

BODY OF PROOF
Daniel Licht

CRIMINAL MINDS
Mark Mancina

CSI
Pete Townshend (PRS)

CSI: MIAMI
Pete Townshend (PRS)
Kevin Kiner

CSI: NY
Pete Townshend (PRS)
Bill Brown

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Danny Elfman
Steve Jablonsky

THE GOOD WIFE
David Buckley (PRS)

GREY’S ANATOMY
Carim Clasmann (PRS)
Galia Durant (PRS)

HAWAII FIVE-0
Keith Power (SOCAN)
Brian Tyler

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Carter Bays
Craig Thomas

THE MENTALIST
Blake Neely

MIKE & MOLLY
Keb’ Mo’

NCIS
Brian Kirk

PRIVATE PRACTICE
Tim Bright
Chad Fischer

REVENGE
iZLER

ROB
Mike Post

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
George Ritter
Bert Selen

TERRA NOVA
Brian Tyler

TWO AND A HALF MEN
Chuck Lorre

UNDERCOVER BOSS
Kenneth Berry
Matt Koskenmaki
John Nooney
Craig Owens
Mark Phillips

THE X FACTOR
Jos Jorgensen
Andy Love

SPANISH-LANGUAGE TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS

UNA MAID EN MANHATTAN
Marco Flores

TRIUNFO DEL AMOR
José Antonio Farías

CABLE MUSIC AWARDS

AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Charlie Clouser
César Dávila-Irizarry

DEXTER
Rolfe Kent
Daniel Licht

FALLING SKIES
Noah Sorota

FLYING WILD ALASKA
Doug Bossi
Tony Elfers
Mat Morse

NINJAGO: MASTERS OF SPINJITZU
Michael Kramer
Jay Vincent

THE O’REILLY FACTOR
Phil Garrod
Reed Hays
Scott Schreer

PROJECT RUNWAY
Biff Sanders
Adam Sanborne

ROYAL PAINS
Søren Oakes Christensen (KODA)
Per Mølgaard Jørgensen (KODA)
Allan Fjeldgaard Villadsen (KODA)
Steffen Westmark (KODA)

SOUTH PARK
Brain
Les Claypool
Larry LaLonde
Jamie Dunlap

SUITS
Christopher Tyng

TRUE BLOOD
Jace Everett
Nathan Barr

VICTORIOUS
Michael Corcoran

WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE
Ryan Elder
Bradley Hamilton
Steve Hampton

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