I'm nominated for 3 Film Music Awards

The Film and TV Music Academy recently announced their nominees for the 2007 Film and TV Music Awards. What's really cool about this, is I have an astounding 3 nominations in 3 categories.

I've been nominated for:

Best Score for an Indie Feature Film George Shaw - J-ok'el

Best Score for a Short Film George Shaw - Hit Me

Best Score for a Student Film George Shaw - The Revengers

What's even more amazing is I'm going up against several more established composers. In the Indie Feature Film category, one of the nominees is Christopher Lennertz (he's scored several Medal of Honor video games, From Russia with Love video game, Supernatural, and the upcoming Fox film, The Comebacks) who actually mentored me this past year when I was in Film Independent's Project: Involve, a mentorship program for young filmmakers. He's been such a fantastic mentor to me, and one of the most generous and helpful persons I've met in the industry (and he's also nominated for the Education Achievement Award). I'm just honored to be put in the same category as him.

In the short film category, Michael Giacchino is nominated for the short film from Pixar, Lifted. Lifted was nominated for a short film Oscar this year, and is really amazing. Plus Giacchino has done some pretty big projects (Alias, Lost, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible III, Ratatouille, just to name a few). And two of my friends and orchestrators on my score to J-OK'EL are assistants to Michael. Michael is a really wonderful guy, I first met him when I was still in college and was invited to a recording session for Alias during its 1st season. Another one of the nicest guys I've met in the industry. He was actually my second choice for a mentor, though I went with Chris Lennertz (and fortunately he said yes) because he's had more experience working on small indie films.

So my chances for winning are slim, but as they say, it's great to be nominated! Perhaps I have a more even chance in the student film category!

Feel free to take a listen to the music I'm nominated for here:

http://georgeshawmusic.com/nominations.html