Diane Warren receives THR/Billboard award

November 14, 2008 Prolific songwriter Diane Warren, who has been at the vanguard of film and TV music for the past 25 years, was honored Nov. 14 in Los Angeles with the inaugural The Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Film and TV Music Career Achievement Award. A native of the San Fernando Valley in California, Warren, who grew up listening to top 40 radio, has had 31 songs peak in the top 10 of the Billboard 100 and she remains the industry's go-to songwriter for ballads and love songs across all genres. She's also been nominated for the Academy Award for best song six times and won a Grammy Award in 1997 for best song written specifically for a motion picture or television for "Because You Loved Me" from the film "Up Close & Personal."

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