Marc Shaiman to Receive ASCAP Award, April 17

  Tony-winning Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman will receive the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for Career Achievement at the 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards. The event, which takes place April 17, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, honors the industry's top film and television music composers.

"Marc is a multi-talented composer and songwriter with a career that spans television, feature films and, of course, his great success on Broadway," states ASCAP President Marilyn Bergman in the press notes.  "We are very proud to celebrate his achievements by honoring him with ASCAP's Henry Mancini Award."

Shaiman has previously received five Oscar nominations, including Best Score for The American President, The First Wives Club, and Patch Adams; and Best Original Song for "A Wink and a Smile" from Sleepless in Seattle and "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. He won an Emmy in 1992 for co-writing Billy Crystal's "Oscar Medleys" for the 64th Annual Academy Awards and has been nominated for his work on "Saturday Night Live." The Broadway Musical Hairspray earned him a Tony and a Grammy, and he is currently working on a film version. His other film credits include When Harry Met Sally, Beaches, Sister Act, City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, In & Out and George of the Jungle.

Previous recipients of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award include John Debney, Mark Isham, Quincy Jones, Michel Legrand, Randy Newman, James Newton Howard, Johnny Mandel, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer.

ASCAP, the leading US Performing Rights Organization, hosts the 22nd Annual ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards as part of ASCAP's "I Create Music Week" –- a week of Los Angeles events celebrating a diverse array of the industry's best songwriters and publishers. Other events this year include the ASCAP Pop Awards, which will honor Melissa Ethridge, and an exclusive interview with Randy Newman.
For more information, visit www.ascap.com.