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2026 Awards and Gala
May 27 @ 6:30 pm - June 3 @ 11:30 pm
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Waleed Diab
Global Head of Recorded Music Business Development
YouTube
Makan Delrahim
Chief Legal Officer
Paramount
Antonious Porch
General Counsel
Condé Nast
THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SUPPORTERS
DIAMOND
PLATINUM
GOLD
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Perkins Coie
PNC Financial Services Group
Proskauer Rose LLP
Universal Music Group
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
SILVER
ADVANCE
ASCAP
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors
Jenner & Block LLP
YouTube
BRONZE
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
King & Spalding
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Meta
The Miner-Romanoff Family
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
King & Spalding
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Meta
The Miner-Romanoff Family
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
MoFo Foundation
Sheppard
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sony Music Entertainment
Spotify
TikTok
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Music Group
CONTRIBUTORS
Davis + Gilbert LLP
Elsberg, Baker & Maruri PLLC
Henry Hoberman & Jodi Brenner Family Fund
Kauff McGuire & Margolis LLP
PAST HONOREES
Citi
Christa D’Alimonte, Viacom Inc.
Jay Dubiner, Authentic Brands Group
Jordan Fasbender, iHeartMedia
Peter Finn, Finn Partners
Sarah Finn, Catskill Mountain Foundation
Lesley Freeman, MGM
Michael D. Fricklas, Advance Publications, Inc.
Eric Dodson Greenberg, Cox Media Group
Jeffrey Harleston, Universal Music Group
Clifford S. Harris, Charter Communications
Kimberley Harris, NBCUniversal
Henry Hoberman, A+E Global Media
Home Box Office, Inc.
Vicky Jeudy, Actor
Clara Kim, ASCAP
Lauren Ezrol Klein, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Seth Krauss, Endeavor
Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, Time Warner Cable Inc.
Eddie Lazarus, Sonos
Terrence McNally, Playwright
Shira Perlmutter, U.S. Copyright Office
David Pitofsky, News Corp
Rodney C. Pratt, LVMH North America
Proskauer Rose LLP
Pilar Ramos, TelevisaUnivision Inc.
Paul Robinson, Warner Music Group
Dana Rosen, TIME
Lesley Rosenthal, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Julie Swidler, SONY Music Entertainment
Special thanks to artist Amy Decker.
Artwork:“ Undersea Lavender,” 2023, Ink, gouache, watercolor, acrylic, sharpie, and kraft paper on wood panel, 20 x 40 in.