ASCAP offers a hearty congratulations to our members Melissa Etheridge, Forest Whitaker and Alan Arkin for their wins at the 79th Annual Academy Awards! In a ceremony held February 25th, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, Etheridge took home the award for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song), for her song "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth. Whitaker won the Oscar for Best Performance by An Actor In a Leading Role for his portrayal of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, and Alan Arkin nabbed the Best Performance by An Actor In a Supporting Role award for his ribald grandfather from Little Miss Sunshine.

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also presented an honorary Oscar to legendary ASCAP composer Ennio Morricone, best known for his scores to Sergio Leone's "spaghetti western" films such as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and Fistful of Dollars. According to Academy President Sid Ganis, "The Board was responding not just to the remarkable number of scores that Mr. Morricone has produced, but to the fact that so many of them are beloved and popular masterpieces." Morricone has earned five Academy Award nominations for original score — for Days of Heaven (1978), The Mission (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Bugsy (1991) and Malèna (2000) — but had not previously received an Oscar.

We congratulate all of our Oscar-nominated ASCAP members,
listed below:

Achievement in music written for motion pictures
(Original Score)

Philip Glass
Notes on a Scandal

Javier Navarrete (SGAE)
Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in music written for motion pictures
(Original Song)

"I Need to Wake Up"
An Inconvenient Truth
Music & Lyrics by Melissa Etheridge

"Listen"
Dreamgirls
Music & Lyrics by Scott Cutler and Henry Krieger

"Love You I Do"
Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger, Lyrics by Siedah Garrett

"Our Town"
Cars
Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman

"Patience"
Dreamgirls
Music by Henry Krieger, Lyrics by Willie Reale


ASCAP Nominees in Other Categories

Best Director - Motion Picture

Clint Eastwood
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Performance by An Actor In a Leading Role

Will Smith
The Pursuit of Happyness

Forest Whitaker
The Last King of Scotland

Best Performance by An Actor In a Supporting Role

Alan Arkin
Little Miss Sunshine

Eddie Murphy
Dreamgirls

Mark Wahlberg
The Departed


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