Germaine was honored to be interviewed by her alma mater Rice University to celebrate and discuss her accomplishments on Disney animations latest film Encanto.
Germaine Franco ’84’s score for Disney’s Encanto is the music everyone is humming right now.
It’s also topping the charts and racking up award nominations left and right. Earlier this year, the film’s soundtrack hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Franco won a Society of Composers and Lyricists Award for outstanding original score for a studio film, and received her first Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, both for best original score. She’s the first Latina to be nominated for an Oscar in that category.
She’s quick to point out that her trailblazing success — she’s also the first woman to score a Disney movie — didn’t happen overnight.
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