Important New Information From BAFTA to SCL Members

October 14, 2010

IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION FROM BAFTA TO THE SCL:

BAFTA would like to inform members of the SCL of a change to the Music category presented at the Orange British Academy Film Awards.

For the 2010/11 Orange British Academy Film Awards, only films for which more than 50% of the music has been originally composed will be eligible for the Original Music Award.

Distributors, producers and BAFTA members can enter films for Film Awards consideration and every film entered will automatically be listed in all other craft categories for which it is eligible. This won’t be the case for the Original Music category, because of the threshold of originally composed music which a film must meet to be eligible.

To ensure that composers have the chance to have their work considered for the award, we have widened the entry process to allow composers to enter their own work. This can be done via an Online Entry Form on the BAFTA website. Composers will be asked to enter some basic information about the film and also submit a Music Cue Sheet to verify the percentage of original music:

http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/entering-a-film,131,BA.html

The entry deadline is Thursday 18 November.

After this date, the list of films entered in this category will be circulated to BAFTA’s Music Chapter to allow them an opportunity to highlight any notable omissions.

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THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-profit and primary organization for professional film, TV and video game composers and lyricists, with a distinguished 65-year history in the fine art of creating music for motion pictures and television.  The predecessor organization, the Screen Composers Association, began in 1945 with such legendary icons as Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dimitri Tiomkin and David Raksin among others.  Current SCL Members include the top creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and pressing issues of the film/television/game music industry today.