Atticus Ross was honored with the BMI Icon Award at this year’s BMI Film, TV and Visual Media Awards. Ross is highly accomplished in the music and film scoring industry having won Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and GRAMMY Awards for his work as a composer in film and television.

With his collaborating partner, Trent Reznor, Ross has scored numerous films including “Gone Girl,” “Soul,” “Mank,” “Queer,” and “Challengers,” just to name a few. Ross and Reznor’s work in television includes Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s 18-hour documentary “The Vietnam War.” Ross is now a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with his band Nine Inch Nails and is not stopping anytime soon. The band recently announced  the lineup for Future Ruins, a new festival bringing together the biggest composers in film and TV.

Future Ruins is set to take place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on November 8, and will feature performances by Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, John Carpenter, Danny Elfman, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Mark Mothersbaugh, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, Questlove, Isobel Waller-Bridge, and Terence Blanchard. The festival is described as a “first-of-its-kind music festival: a day-long event where the world’s most influential film and television composers step out from behind the screen and onto the stage.”

 

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Nine Inch Nails will also launch its “Peel It Back Tour” across Europe, and North America, which kicks off on June 15 in Dublin, before heading to Manchester’s Co-op Live on June 17, and London’s O2 Arena on June 18.

Ross humbly accepted his award after watching a film package with clips of his work mixed with accolades from the directors and filmmakers who worked including “Challengers” and “Queer” director Luca Guadagnino, producer and studio executive Amy Pascal, and Reznor.

“What I like about film music is that there aren’t any rules,” Ross said in his acceptance speech.  “What it’s really about, to my mind, is ‘How can we make people feel,’ and that’s what music is about…I put a lot of effort into making sure that this never feels like a job…This is my dream, I don’t take it lightly.”

Ross gives high praise to Reznor who he first worked with in 2002 on the NIN side project “Tapeworm.” “When I think of me and Trent the first thing that comes to mind for most people is music but what its really been about is friendship; and though that friendship processing life, and is processing life, being able to create music that carries the emotion.”

Ross went on to thank the producers, editors and everybody whose collaborated with him on all the films.

“The most important person who’s inspired me for many, many years is my wife, Claudia [Sarne].”

In addition to Ross, the event recognized BMI winners for their film, television, and video game work including Goh Nakamura, Kara Talve, Thomas Newman, Julia Newman, Mike Post, Fil Eisler, and Mark Isham.