Giorgio Moroder, winner of three Oscars and two Grammys for film music (for a total of four Grammys won), will receive a lifetime achievement award from The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) during its 35th annual gala dinner . at the Sheraton Universal Ballroom in Los Angeles on December 11.
At the same event, composers Hoyt Curtin and Carl Stalling will be posthumously inducted into the SCL Hall of Fame. Curtin composed themes for such Hanna-Barbera series as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby-Doo, Jonny Quest and The Smurfs. He served as music director at Hanna-Barbera from 1957 to 1965 and again from 1972 until his retirement in 1989.
Stalling composed music for more than 600 animated films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940) and Fantasia (1940) and the Warner Bros. animated series. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. He served as music director at Warner Bros.
Film and television composer Brian D. Siewert has been named the recipient of SCL's 2024 Trailblazer Award. Siewert has won four Daytime Emmys for his work Guidance light.
EGOT-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and Jeff Beal, winner of five Primetime Emmys, will receive the 2024 SCL Ambassador Awards. Pasek and Paul earned EGOT status in September when they won a Primetime Emmy for a song that they wrote Only murders in the building. Beal has won an Emmy for his work Monk, Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, The Company and House of Cards.
Awards presentations and inductions will take place at SCL holiday events in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville.
During the announcements, Ashley Irwin, president of SCL, said: “The SCL Lifetime Achievement Award and these other special honors were created to recognize and recognize a select group of music creators with significant contributions to our profession and the music community . Their achievements will be used as the ultimate model for future generations of media composers and songwriters.”
Details of when and where these awards will be presented follow.
December 4 – New York: Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and Jeff Beal will be presented with the 2024 SCL Ambassador Awards during the SCL Celebration Party held at The Cutting Room (44 E 32nd St) beginning at 7 p.m.
December 7 – Nashville: Film and TV composer Brian D. Siewert will be honored with SCL's 2024 Trailblazer Award during the SCL Nashville Holiday Party to be held at Oceanway Studios Nashville (1200 17th Ave S), from 4 to 7 p.m.
December 11 – Los Angeles: SCL will present its Lifetime Achieve Award to Giorgio Moroder and posthumously induct Hoyt Curtin and Carl Stalling during the gala dinner to be held in the Sheraton Universal Ballroom from 6 to 10 p.m.
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