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TRACY McKNIGHT is Vice President, Creative, Film, TV & Visual Media at Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). Beyond leading the day-to-day functions of BMI’s Film, TV & Visual Media department, McKnight helps identify and sign new affiliates, nurtures relationships with existing affiliates, and develops programs and events that promote the creative work of BMI composers.
Prior to McKnight joining BMI in 2023, she spent more than two decades as an esteemed creative executive and award-winning music supervisor with over 170 film and TV credits to date. Most recently, she oversaw the film score acquisition department at Wise Publishing and secured music assets for many projects including the hit documentary Rebel Hearts and award-winning films such as Sean Penn’s Flag Day, for which she won a Hollywood Music & Media Award (HMMA) in music supervision. Previously, McKnight was the head of film music at Lionsgate, overseeing projects like The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She has collaborated with Mychael Danna, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Newton Howard and Rachel Portman, among many other composers. Additionally, McKnight has been nominated for ten Guild of Music Supervisors Awards and won for her work on the critically acclaimed documentary Halston.
McKnight is a current board member of Women in Film, was a member of the TV Academy Music Peer Group Executive Committee and served for two years as the Vice President of the Guild of Music Supervisors.
Juan Chattah (University of Miami) – Film Music: Cognition to Interpretation (Taylor & Francis) and David Shire’s The Conversation: A Film Score Guide (Rowman & Littlefield)
Kate Galloway (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) - Music and Sonic Environments in Video Games (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-editor of Taylor Swift: The Star, The Songs, The Fans (Routledge, forthcoming)
Desirée J. Garcia (Dartmouth College) - The Movie Musical (Rutgers UP) and The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream (Rutgers UP)
Ron Sadoff (New York University) – The Moon and the Son and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound
Katherine Spring (Wilfrid Laurier University) – Saying It With Songs (Oxford UP) and co-editor of Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (Wayne State UP)