ASCAP celebrated the musical masterminds behind America’s favorite films, TV shows and video games at our Screen Music Awards on March 24th. Craig Armstrong, composer of The Great Gatsby, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge! and more, accepted the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award from director Oliver Stone. We honored many of today’s screen music superstars with major awards, including Survivor/The Apprentice composer David Vanacore, super-producer Timbaland (Empire), Rizzoli & Isles composers James Levine & Josh Klein, Orange Is the New Black composers Scott Doherty & Brandon Jay and Michael Giacchino (Jurassic World).
In some of the night’s most exciting moments, we revealed the winners of the ASCAP Composers’ Choice Awards. The nominees were selected by a committee of professional composers and industry experts, and voting was open exclusively to their fellow ASCAP writer members. NBC Universal exec Alicen Schneider crowned Bear McCreary (Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, Black Sails, Defiance, The Walking Dead) as TV Composer of the Year, for the second time. Austin Wintory picked up his second straight Video Game Score of the Year win, for his score to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, and Ennio Morricone added an ASCAP Film Score of the Year honor to his Oscar, Golden Globe and EE BAFTA for The Hateful Eight.
ASCAP HENRY MANCINI AWARD
Craig Armstrong
MOST PERFORMED THEMES AND UNDERSCORE
Honoring ASCAP composers whose music has earned the highest number of cumulative domestic performance credits in television in the category of themes and dramatic underscore for the 2015 survey year.
TOP WINNER
David Vanacore
Joel Beckerman
Sean Callery
John Debney
Robert Duncan
Didier Lean Rachou
Jeff Lippencott
Mark Snow
Mark T. Williams
Hans Zimmer
TOP TELEVISION SERIES
Honoring ASCAP composers and songwriters for their themes and underscore from the highest rated series during the period of January 1 - December 31, 2015
TOP CABLE SERIES WINNER
Rizzoli & Isles (TNT)
JAMES LEVINE
TOP NETWORK SERIES WINNER
Empire (FOX)
TIMBALAND
TOP CABLE SERIES WINNER
Rizzoli & Isles (TNT)
JOSH KLEIN
TOP STREAMING SERIES WINNER
Orange Is The New Black (NETFLIX)
SCOTT DOHERTY
BRANDON JAY
The 100 (CW)
DOC DAUER
LIZ PHAIR
American Idol (FOX)
CATHERINE DENNIS (PRS)
JULIAN GINGELL (PRS)
BARRY STONE (PRS)
The Apprentice (NBC)
JEFF LIPPENCOTT
MARK T. WILLIAMS
The Bachelor (ABC)
The Bachelorette (ABC)
MATT BOWEN
BRAD SEGAL
Big Bang Theory (CBS)
ED ROBERTSON (SOCAN)
Big Brother 17 (CBS)
DAVID VANACORE
The Blacklist (NBC)
DAVID PORTER
Blue Bloods (CBS)
MARK SNOW
Bones (FOX)
SEAN CALLERY
JAMIE FORSYTH
JULIA NEWMANN
Castle (ABC)
ROBERT DUNCAN
Celia (TELEMUNDO)
FERNANDO OSORIO
Chasing Life (ABC FAMILY)
JOHN GRUSH
TAYLOR STEWART
Criminal Minds (CBS)
MARC FANTINI
STEFFAN FANTINI
SCOTT GORDON
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
DANIEL McGRATH (PRS)
JOSH PHILLIPS (PRS)
Defiance (SYFY)
BEAR McCREARY
Downton Abbey (PBS)
JOHN LUNN (PRS)
Elementary (CBS)
SEAN CALLERY
MARK SNOW
Finding Carter (MTV)
MANDY DUFFY
JACOB YOFFEE
Gold Rush: The Dirt (DISCOVERY)
DIDIER LEAN RACHOU
Good Witch (HALLMARK)
JACK LENZ (SOCAN)
Gravity Falls (DISNEY)
BRAD BREECK
Ground Floor (TBS)
GREGG LEHRMAN
The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN)
ELVIN ROSS
How to Get Away with Murder (ABC)
PHOTEK
The Jim Gaffigan Show (NICK-AT-NITE)
CHRIS ALAN LEEJustified (FX)
OSCAR OWENS
STEVE PORCARO
Last Man Standing (ABC)
CARL THIEL
Limitless (CBS)
PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN
Madam Secretary (CBS)
BRIAN LAPIN
Mi Corazón Es Tuyo (Univision)
JORGE EDUARDO MURGUIA
Mike & Molly (CBS)
GRANT GEISSMAN
JOSH KELLEY
Mysteries of Laura (NBC)
JOEY NEWMAN
NCIS (CBS)
MATTHEW HAWKINS
MAURICE “m.O” JACKSON
NEIL MARTIN
NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)
JAY FERGUSON
The Night Shift (NBC)
FRED COURY
Ninjago (CARTOON NETWORK)
ERIN CHAPMAN
Person of Interest (CBS)
J.J. ABRAMS
Robot Chicken (ADULT SWIM)
RANDALL CRISSMAN
Royal Pains (USA)
JAMES LEVINE
Secrets & Lies (ABC)
MATTEO ZINGALES (APRA)
Survivor: Cambodia (CBS)
Survivor: Worlds Apart (CBS)
RUSS LANDAU
DAVID VANACORE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NICKELODEON)
STANLEY MARTINEZ
Texas Rising (HISTORY)
PETER BATEMAN
BRUCE BROUGHTON
JOHN DEBNEY
Two and a Half Men (CBS)
LEE ARONSOHN
GRANT GEISSMAN
Undercover Boss (CBS)
DAVID VANACORE
The Voice (NBC)
MATT CHAMBLESS
JARED GUTSTADT
JEFF PETERS
SCHIMMER MUSIC PRODUCTIONS
The Walking Dead (AMC)
BEAR McCREARY
Zoo (CBS)
JOHN C. CARPENTER
JOHN H. CARPENTER
CHRISTOPHER TILTON
TOP BOX OFFICE FILMS
Honoring ASCAP composers with music from the top box office films of 2015
TOP WINNER
Jurassic World
MICHAEL GIACCHINO
The Big Short
NICHOLAS BRITELL
Cinderella
PATRICK DOYLE (PRS)
The Divergent Series: Insurgent
JOSEPH TRAPANESE
Home
LORNE BALFE (PRS)
Inside Out
MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Kingsman: The Secret Service
HENRY JACKMAN
MATTHEW MARGESON
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
JOHN PAESANO
Minions
HEITOR PEREIRA
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
RUPERT GREGSON-WILLIAMS
Pixels
HENRY JACKMAN
The Revenant
ALVA NOTO (GEMA)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
JOHN DEBNEY
Straight Outta Compton
JOSEPH TRAPANESE
Terminator: Genisys
LORNE BALFE (PRS)
Tomorrowland
MICHAEL GIACCHINO
Trainwreck
JON BRION
War Room
PAUL MILLS
