About me
Tracy McKnight is Vice President, Creative, Film, TV & Visual Media at 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 executiveand award-winning music supervisor with over 170 film and TV credits to date. Most recently, she oversaw thefilm score acquisition department at Wise Publishing and secured music assets for many projects including thehit documentary Rebel Hearts and award-winning films such as Sean Penn's Flag Day, for which she won aHollywood Music & Media Award (HMMA) in music supervision, and The World to Come, which garnered anIvor Novello Award for her collaboration with composer Daniel Blumberg. Previously, McKnight was the headof film music at Lionsgate, overseeing projects like The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: CatchingFire. She has collaborated with the likes of Mychael Danna, Harry Gregson-Williams, James Newton Howardand Rachel Portman, among many other composers. Additionally, McKnight has been nominated for ten Guildof Music Supervisors Awards and won for her work on the critically acclaimed documentary Halston.
McKnight is a current board member of Women in Film, sits on the advisory board of the Composers DiversityCollective, was a member of the TV Academy Music Peer Group Executive Committee and served for twoyears as the Vice President of the Guild of Music Supervisors. She has been an advisor to the Sundance Film Festival/Institute in addition to co-programming their annual concert “A Celebration of Music in Film.”
