SA composer nominated for Emmy
22 August 2013
South African composer Philip Miller has been nominated for an Emmy Award for
best original dramatic score for a mini-series or movie for his soundtrack to the film
The Girl.
The annual Emmy Awards aim to reward excellence in the television industry, and the 2013 awards on 22 September will be the 65th edition of the ceremony.
"Miller is one of South Africa's pre-eminent composers working in film and television
both locally and internationally," the National Film and Video Foundation said in a
statement on Wednesday.
His work in
The Girl will be up against documentary film
Mea Maxima
Culpa: Silence In The House Of God, mini-series
Parade's End - Part 5,
Restless - Part 2 and
World Without End, as well as television film
Ring of Fire.
The Girl, starring Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton and Toby Jones, is about the turbulent relationship between filmmaker
Alfred Hitchcock and actress Tippi Hedren, and has received six nominations for this year's Emmys, including best director, lead actor and best supporting actress.
Miller studied music composition at the University of Cape Town Music School under
composers Jeanne Zaidel Rudolph and Peter Klatzow, and completed his postgraduate studies in Electro-Acoustic music composition for film and television at Bournemouth University in England.
He has composed the soundtracks for numerous productions, including Steven
Silver's
The Bang Bang Club - which was nominated for a Genie Award in
Canada - and
Black Butterflies, which won best film score at the South
African Film and Television Awards in 2012.
He has also collaborated with internationally renowned artist William Kentridge, the
most recent of which was for Kentridge's five-screen multimedia installation
The
Refusal of Time at the Tate Modern Museum in London.
SAinfo
reporter
