"Hollywood in Vienna" is a red carpet film music gala-concert in the Vienna Concert Hall, where the City of Vienna honours the most prestigious film composers of our time with the »Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award«. The gala has established itself as one of the leading film music events world-wide and is broadcast via TV to 35 countries. The gala concert was initiated in 2007 by Sandra Tomek, Tomek Productions, and has since then been produced by Tomek Productions and Echo Medienhaus and co-produced by Michael Balgavy. The gala also commemorates the composers who emigrated from Vienna in the 20th century to establish the classic Hollywood sound in Hollywood. The composers included
Erich Wolfgang Korngold,
Max Steiner,
Arnold Schoenberg and others. In recent years, world-famous film music composers such as Danny Elfman, Alexandre Desplat, Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer and, 2019 Gabriel Yared have been among the awardees. In the course of the celebrations, the honored composers also hold lectures and workshops at the associated "International Film Music Symposium Vienna" (FIMU Vienna) in order to promote young musicians. The concerts with star guest Alan Menken was originally planned for October 2020, had to be postponed to September 2022 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. According to the organisers, no event will take place in 2023. Post-COVID19 inflation and the loss of two major partners made it economically impossible. While the organisers feel that they are unable to get the concert off the ground, they hope to the able to do more galas in the incoming years. == Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award ==