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Composer Atticus Ross Honored as Icon at BMI Film, TV & Visual Music Awards

Composer Atticus Ross was presented with the BMI Icon award at the performing rights society's annual Film, TV and Visual Media Awards.

In a video tribute, longtime professional partner Trent Reznor called their relationship “the truest, longest friendship of my life.” Directors David Fincher (“The Social Network”), Allen Hughes (“The Book of Eli”), Fisher Stevens (“Before the Flood”), Pete Docter (“Soul”), Luca Guadagnino (“Challengers”) and TV producers Damon Lindelof (“Watchmen”) and Justin Marks (“Shogun”) added words of praise for Ross’s work. Ross joins such past Icon winners as Terence Blanchard, Mychael Danna, Alexandre Desplat, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Mike Post, Alan Silvestri, Brian Tyler and John Williams. Among those earning multiple BMI awards were Ross (for “Challengers” and “Shogun”), Fil Eisler (“Outer Banks,” “Fire Country”), Tom Howe (“Knuckles,” “Shrinking”), Andrew Lockington (“Atlas,” “Landman”), Blake Neely (“The Bloody Hundredth,” “Masters of the Air”), Julia Newman (“Doctor Odyssey,” “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”), Carlos Rafael Rivera (“Hacks,” “Griselda”) and Tyler Strickland (“Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them,” “Face to Face with Scott Peterson”).

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