The day I accepted the Cinema One Originals 2008 award for Best Musical Score was barely a week away, but to me it still feels like it happened a few minutes ago. Now I had another “reliving the experience” moment when ABS CBN finally published their official statement regarding Cinema One’s Best Music Score award.

Photo courtesy of ABS CBN and Philippine Entertainment Portal

Read ABS CBN and Cinema One’s full official statement after the jump!

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The Cinema One Originals 2008 jurors are bestowing the Best Music Award to Diwa De Leon of Kolorete.

Cinema One Originals, a project of Cinema One Channel is an annual festival of original films.According to this year’s jury composed of Mr. Lito Zuleta, director Brilliante Mendoza, professor Gigi Alfonso, actress Eugene Domingo, and director Jeffrey Jeturian, it aims to foster the creative ferment in Philippine independent filmmaking by hosting a competition of original movies. Because of questions raised about the authorship of the score of Alon, the festival may have been compromised. As such, the jurors of Cinema One Originals 2008 feel constrained to withdraw the Best Music award from Alon and award it instead to the one which garnered the second highest number of votes in the original balloting.

Diwa De Leon of the film Kolorete composed and arranged most of the scoring in the film with lyrics written by Zyan Caina.

Diwa de Leon is a Composition Major who graduated from the UP College of Music and has been composing and arranging for 12 years now. He comes from a family of composers and musicians , the son of Professor Felipe de Leon. The late National Artist for Music Felipe Padilla de Leon is his grandfather.

Alon will immediately be re-scored for its future screenings.

If it wasn’t for the vigilance of the jury, I wouldn’t have gotten this award, so thank you very much to the members of the jury!

I have compiled the articles written about my awarding. Here they are in no particular order:

Cinema One Originals recalls Best Music Award from “Alon”
“Kolorete” receives Best Music Award instead of “Alon”
Gamers also real-world achievers
Ragnarok Player and Game Hero Bags Best Musical Score Award
Master Diwa Wins Best Musical Score in Cinema One Awards
Kolorete: An Actor’s Review

Also don’t forget to watch my mini-concert and live chat on December 17, 3pm at the Level Up Christmas Live Blog, I will be playing a new set of videogame tunes and Christmas songs on my violin.