Evie writes: A new Musical Score award will be presented at the Munich Filmfest for the first time 2010. The new Film Music Prize will be awarded to Howard Shore, who composed the score to “The Lord of the Rings”, “Gangs of New York” and “Silence of the Lambs”. The awards ceremony will take place as part of the “Cinema in Concert” gala on June 24th in Munich’s Circus Krone. The award carries a purse of Euro 10,000 and is donated by Bavarian Broadcasting and pubweb world sales unit Telepool. More..
Several of the movies to which he composed the score, will be screened at this year’s festival. The entire program will be announced on June 7, 2010 here:
http://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/rc/ffm_en/program/programm_2010.asp
More about this new award, the award ceremony and ‘The Day of Music in Films’ (in German):
http://www.br-online.de/pressestelle/pressemitteilungen/pressestelle-pressemitteilung-filmtonart-ID1272631246054.xml
