The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) announced it will award legendary composer and producer Giorgio Moroder with its prestigious 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award and posthumously induct into the SCL Hall of Fame composers Hoyt Curtin and Carl Stalling, both architects of the best-loved, iconic music in the most popular cartoons and animated films. Emmy-winning film and TV composer Brian D. Siewert has been named the recipient of the SCL’s 2024 Trailblazer Award. EGOT-winning songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, and Emmy-winning Jeff Beal will also be presented with 2024 SCL Ambassador Awards.
The awards presentations and inductions will take place as part of the SCL’s upcoming holiday events in New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville. The annual celebrations are held by the SCL to celebrate its members’ achievements and honor outstanding composers and songwriters.
Past SCL Lifetime Achievement Award honorees include Quincy Jones, Danny Elfman, Bill Conti, Lalo Schifrin, Philip Glass, Alan Menken, and Ginny Mancini.
Composers and lyricists are inducted into the SCL Hall of Fame posthumously. Leonard Bernstein and Pete Carpenter were last year's SCL Hall of Fame inductees.
The SCL Trailblazer Award was created to recognize and acknowledge a select group of composers and lyricists whose valuable contributions have pioneered scoring for film, television, and other visual media in Nashville, and without whose creativity our community would be deprived of the wonderful music and song expressed by their expertise. Last year’s inaugural SCL Trailblazer Award recipient was Paul Mills.
Past SCL Ambassador Award recipients include Marcelo Zarvos, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Dave Grusin, Thomas Newman, Burt Bacharach, David Shire, Johnny Mandel, Earl Hagen, James Newton Howard, Leiber and Stoller, Alan Silvestri, Randy Newman, and Hal David.
In making the announcements, Ashley Irwin, President of the SCL, said: “The SCL Lifetime Achievement Award and these other special honors were created to recognize and acknowledge a select group of music creators with significant contributions to our profession and music community. Their achievements will be used as the ultimate standard for future generations of media composers and songwriters.”
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