“White Lotus” composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer wins fourth Emmy for HBO present amid Mike White feud

The White Lotus composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer simply gained his fourth Emmy for the present, months after his public falling out with creator Mike White.

Although Tapia de Veer didn’t attend the Saturday ceremony the place he gained for Greatest Authentic Major Title Theme Music on the 2025 Inventive Arts Emmy Awards, he nonetheless made positive to have a good time from dwelling.

"I simply gained my fourth Emmy Award: greatest theme for The White Lotus season 3," Tapia de Veer wrote Saturday on Instagram. "I respect the Academy as a result of these votes can't be purchased. No smear marketing campaign distracted them. Thanks, this implies so much to me in multiple manner."

The submit was accompanied by a clip of the season 3 primary title music taking part in over a video of a firefly. "I'm joyful you linked with this melody trigger it was an incredible journey making it," he wrote. "It's about this firefly I met and filmed for an hour."

There was notably no point out of White or HBO in Tapia de Veer's remarks, however that's no shock given the composer's just lately contentious relationship with the present's creatives.

Earlier this yr, the musician advised the New York Instances that he wouldn’t return for the present's fourth season, after clashing with White and the present's producers over his inventive decisions.

The Instances story moreover noticed Tapia de Veer reference a number of alleged disputes with White, relationship again to his work on the present's first season, after they had been creating the season 1 theme and episodic music. The Emmy-winner mentioned he in the end walked away "fairly proud" of the truth that he "by no means gave up" preventing for his imaginative and prescient.

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"Possibly I used to be being unprofessional, and for positive Mike feels that I used to be at all times unprofessional to him as a result of I didn’t give him what he wished," mentioned the composer. "However what I gave him did this, you already know — did these Emmys, folks going loopy…. It was value all the stress and nearly forcing the music into the present…. This was a superb wrestle."

White later unpacked the drama throughout a chat on Howard Stern's radio present, sharing that he was "thrown" by Tapia de Veer's feedback as a result of they arrived days earlier than the season 3 finale aired: "It was type of a bitch transfer."

He then denied a full-fledged feud, however confirmed that the pair did butt heads.

"I simply don’t suppose he revered me. He needs folks to know that he’s edgy and darkish and I’m — I don’t know, like I watch actuality TV," he mentioned. "We by no means actually even fought. He says we feuded [but] I don’t suppose I ever had a combat with him — aside from perhaps some emails."

White claimed that points between the duo solely emerged whereas engaged on the third season, alleging that Tapia de Veer now not wished to "undergo the method" and "get notes" after the present's success.

"He’s very proficient. [But] I’ve by no means kissed any person’s ass so onerous to only get him to — to guide that horse to water," White concluded.

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To this point, The White Lotus has gained 16 Emmys throughout its first three seasons, together with 4 for Tapia de Veer, two for Excellent Authentic Major Title Theme Music (season 1 and season 3), and two for Authentic Dramatic Rating (season 1 and season 2). The third season acquired 15 nominations complete, together with Excellent Drama Sequence.

The 2025 Inventive Arts Emmy Awards are held on Saturday, Sept. 6, and Sunday, Sept. 7, on the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Take a look at the total listing of winners right here.

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