Hollywood Music In Media Awards Names Zain Effendi Best New Composer

Nov. 21, 2009 - PRLog -- At an early age, Zain Effendi knew his passion for music would be a part of a journey that would take him places he could only imagine at that time. On Thursday, November 19th, in front of some of Hollywood’s most famous Music Industry professionals, Zain Effendi accepted his award for Best New Composer at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Edging out some of Hollywood’s top new composers, Effendi knew his hard work over the years, along with his belief in his abilities, had been worth the effort.  

“It is such an honor to be recognized by the professionals of the HMMA’s.” says Effendi. “Working with Zimmer early in my career were the toughest and most influential years of my life. It is because of this remarkable, world class team, that I have been honored here today. Thank you to everyone for believing in me!”

Effendi is an amazing young composer who entered the music world by the age of 5 and has continued to hone his talent throughout his life.  While working at Remote Control Productions, he was involved in the production of such scores as The Pirates of The Caribbean and The Dark Knight."  After several years and almost a dozen films (The Holiday, Pirates of The Caribbean 3: A Dead Man's Chest, The Simpson's Movie, Bee Movie, Transformers, Casi Divas, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar 2: Escape From Africa, Frost/Nixon, The Dark Knight) with Zimmer.
Zain left the studio to venture onto his solo career and currently works in his studios both in New York City and in Venice Beach. His award winning work was for his efforts on the film Gagetown.
Category winners for the evening were as follows:
OUTSTANDING CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD-John Debney
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - FILM-Clinton Shorter - "District 9" (Tristar Pictures)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - TV-Nathan Barr - "True Blood" (HBO)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - VIDEO GAME-Jesper Kyd - "Assassins Creed 2" (Ubisoft)
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - FILM-"When You Find Me" (Adam)-Written by Kevin Griffin and Joshua Radin / performed by Joshua Radin
BEST ORIGINAL SONG – TV-"Lie to Me" (Lie to Me)-Written by Stacy Wilde & David Bellochio / Performed by Stacy Wilde
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - VIDEO GAME-"I Am the One" (Dragon Age: Origins)
Written by Inon Zur and Aubrey Ashburn / Performed by Aubrey Ashburn
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT-"2 Scoops" (Canada Credit) Written by Peter Holmes / Performed by Michelle Harding
BEST MUSIC VIDEO-Steve Rushton - "Ready to Rock"
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION - FILM-Alex Patsavas - "Twilight"
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION - TV-PJ Bloom - "Glee" / "Nip/Tuck" / "United States of Tara" / "CSI Miami" / "Lincoln Heights"
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION - VIDEO GAME-Simon Pressey - Dragon Age: Origins (BioWare EA)
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION - MOVIE TRAILER-Heather Kreamer / Mocean - "Zombieland"
SPECIAL RECOGNITION - VANGARD AWARD-Immediate Music
Best Adult Contemporary/AAA-Greg London
Best Alternative-Hypnogaja
Best Americana/Roots-Steve Cooke
Best New Composer-Zain Effendi 
Best Blues-Gregg Young & the 2nd Street Band
Best Classical/Orchestral-Volodja Balzalorsky
Best Contemporary Christian-Janyse
Best Country-Chaffee Kid
Best Dance-Pepper MaShay
Best Female Vocal-Hilary Weaver
Best Folk/Acoustic-Brandon Schott
Best Instrumental-Del Castillo
Best Jazz-Crane & Fabian Project
Best Metal-Fellguard
Best New Age/Ambient-Catya MarÈ
Best Pop-Jonathan Posey
Best Production/Producer-Ronny Morris
Best R&B/Soul-Bobby Tinsley
Best Rap/Hip-Hop-No Clue
Best Reggae-International Farmers
Best Rock-Avery Watts
Best Techno/Electronica-Sean Ray
Best World-Paul Myer Hopkins
BEST MUSIC VIDEO-MYSTUDIO COMPETITION-Don Preach for ‘Hero’