Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award winner Atticus Ross was offered with the BMI Icon award “in recognition of his distinctive physique of labor” on the performing rights society’s annual Movie, TV and Visible Media Awards Wednesday night time in Beverly Hills.
Ross’s movie scores embrace “The Social Community,” “The Woman With the Dragon Tattoo,” “Gone Woman,” “Soul,” “Mank,” “Empire of Mild” and “Challengers,” all in collaboration together with his longtime 9 Inch Nails accomplice Trent Reznor. His TV work contains “Watchmen,” “The Vietnam Conflict” and “Shogun.”
BMI president-CEO Mike O’Neill offered the award, noting that Ross’s “modern spirit and fervour for pushing the boundaries of composition have actually re-engineered the best way we expertise storytelling.” He cited the composer’s contributions “to the world of music as a composer, rock pioneer and a legend.”
The London-born composer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame as a part of 9 Inch Nails in 2020; they are going to embark on a sold-out world area tour later this yr. Disney’s “Tron” sequel “Ares” will characteristic a 9 Inch Nails rating in October.
In a video tribute, longtime skilled accomplice Trent Reznor known as their relationship “the truest, longest friendship of my life.” Administrators David Fincher (“The Social Community”), Allen Hughes (“The E-book of Eli”), Fisher Stevens (“Earlier than the Flood”), Pete Docter (“Soul”), Luca Guadagnino (“Challengers”) and Sam Mendes (“Empire of Mild”), and TV producers Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) and Justin Marks (“Shogun”) added phrases of reward for Ross’s work.
Accepting the award, Ross stated “This by no means looks like a job; that is my dream.” He insisted that “scoring movies is an artwork kind, and all of you sitting on this room are artists.” He finds creating music for movie “a spot for self-expression. There aren’t any guidelines. It’s actually all about: How can we make folks really feel?”
Ross joins such previous Icon winners as Terence Blanchard, Mychael Danna, Alexandre Desplat, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Mike Submit, Alan Silvestri, Brian Tyler and John Williams.
Additionally honored on the ceremony had been the composers of probably the most profitable movies of the previous yr; the best rated sequence on TV, cable and streaming companies; and the preferred video video games. Becoming a member of O’Neill in presenting the awards had been Tracy McKnight, BMI’s VP of inventive, movie, TV and visible media, and Mike Steinberg, the org’s government VP, chief income and artistic officer. (Pictured above: O’Neill, Ross and McKnight.)
Amongst these incomes a number of BMI awards had been Ross (for “Challengers” and “Shogun”), Fil Eisler (“Outer Banks,” “Hearth Nation”), Tom Howe (“Knuckles,” “Shrinking”), Andrew Lockington (“Atlas,” “Landman”), Blake Neely (“The Bloody Hundredth,” “Masters of the Air”), Julia Newman (“Physician Odyssey,” “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”), Carlos Rafael Rivera (“Hacks,” “Griselda”) and Tyler Strickland (“Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets and techniques Between Them,” “Face to Face with Scott Peterson”).
Veteran TV composer Mike Submit earned his sixtieth and 61st BMI awards for his work on “Regulation & Order” and “Regulation & Order: SVU.” Atli Örvarsson acquired probably the most awards of the night, a complete of seven, for his work on three “FBI” reveals on CBS and three “Chicago” reveals on NBC, plus the streaming sequence “Silo.”
The whole listing of winners is at https://www.bmi.com/award-shows/film-tv-2025/.
