BMI Film & TV Awards 1987
The presentation of the BMI Film & TV Awards 1987 was the second of its kind. Work from the previous year is always recognized at the award ceremony. In the new category Most Performed Song from a Film , the respective song composers are awarded, so there may be deviations from the soundtrack composers.
Award winners
BMI Film Music Award
- About Last Night by Miles Goodman
- Do it again, Dad by Danny Elfman
- Crocodile Dundee by Peter Best
- Zoff in Beverly Hills by Andy Summers
- Gung Ho by Thomas Newman
- Heartbreak Ridge by Lennie Niehaus
- Out of Africa by John Barry ( Oscar for best film music 1986)
- Peggy Sue got married from John Barry
- Poltergeist II - The Other Side by Jerry Goldsmith
- Pretty in Pink by Michael Gore
- Number 5 is alive! by David Shire
Most Performed Song from a Film
- At a short distance from Patrick Leonard (for the song Live to Tell )
- Karate Kid II - Decision in Okinawa by David Foster (for the song Glory of Love )
- White Nights by Stephen Bishop (for the song Separate Lives )
BMI TV Music Award
- 227 by Ray Colcord
- The Bill Cosby Show by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby
- Dallas by Jerrold Immel and Lance Rubin
- Family ties by Jeff Barry and Tom Scott
- Golden Girls by Andrew Gold
- Growing Pains by Steve Dorff
- LA Law - Star Lawyers, Tricks, Trials from Mike Post
- The model and the sniffer from Al Jarreau
- My Sister Sam by Steve Dorff
- Harry's Miraculous Judgment of Jack Elliott
- Who is the boss? by Robert Kraft , Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter