In the US, the Guild of Music Supervisors was founded to act as a valuable, highly specialized resource to further the understanding of the constant evolution of music in media and for related guilds who benefit from our expertise.
As such it tries to ensure that music supervisors are not forgotten in their work and when it comes to awards ceremony.
Nominees for the 2014 awards
The guild also has its own award series. Although the winners are not yet known, it has announced its nominees for the 2014 Music Supervisor Guild awards. This includes nominees in musical, reality TV and other sections. It also further breaks down the awards into films according to budget, to ensure smaller films are also given some space.
Musicians music publishers, if you were looking for a list of the real who’s-who in music supervision, this is it (for the US at least). The winners will be announced at a ceremony in January.
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – TELEVISION COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Girls – Season 3
Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe
Glee – Season 5
PJ Bloom
Hit the Floor – Season 2
Joel C. High and Erin Dillon
Nashville – Season 3
Frankie Pine
Shameless – Season 4
Ann Kline
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – TELEVISION DRAMA
American Horror Story: Freak Show
PJ Bloom
Peaky Blinders – Season 2
Amelia Hartley
Reign – Season 2
Madonna Wade-Reed
Teen Wolf – Seasons 3B and 4
Laura Webb
The Blacklist – Season 1
John Bissell
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – REALITY TELEVISION
American Idol – Season 13
Robin Kaye
America’s Got Talent – Season 9
Meryl Ginsberg
Best Bars in America – Season 1
Carrie Hughes
So You Think You Can Dance – Season 11
Nancy Severinsen
The Voice – Seasons 6 and 7
Clyde Lieberman and Jill Meyers
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – TELEVISION LONG FORM AND MOVIES
Drumline: A New Beat
Tricia Holloway
Houdini
Maureen Crowe
In My Dreams
Andrea von Foerster
The Normal Heart
PJ Bloom
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM OVER 25 MILLION
Guardians of the Galaxy
Dave Jordan
Annie
Matt Sullivan and Wende Crowely
Get On Up
Bud Carr and Margaret Yen
The Book Of Life
John Houlihan
Into The Woods
Paul Gemignani and Michael Higham
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM UNDER 25 MILLION
Birdman
Lynn Fainchtein
St. Vincent
Randall Poster
The Fault In Our Stars
Season Kent
Wild
Sue Jacobs
Chef
Mathieu Schreyer
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM UNDER 10 MILLION
Beyond The Lights
Julia Michels
JIMI: All Is By My Side
Chris Mollere
Begin Again
Matt Sullivan and Andrea von Foerster
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – FILM UNDER 5 MILLION
Boyhood
Randall Poster
Whiplash
Andy Ross
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
John Houlihan and Willa Yudell
We Are The Best
Rasmus Thord
Rudderless
Liz Gallacher
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION IN GAMES
FIFA 15
Cybele Pettus [Electronic Arts]
Sunset Overdrive
Laura Katz and Gregory J. Gordon [Insomniac Games and Pyramind Studios]
Hohokum
Alex Hackford [Sony Computer Entertainment]
Forza Horizon 2
Kyle Hopkins, Maya Halfon and Rob Da Bank [Microsoft Studios]
The Sims 4
Steve Schnur and Cybele Pettus [Electronic Arts]
BEST USE OF MUSIC, BRAND
Apple
Peymon Maskan
Coke
Joe Belliotti
AllSaints
Michael Gross
Nike
JT Griffith
BEST USE OF MUSIC, MUSIC HOUSE / AGENCY
Walker
Sara Matarazzo
Able Baker
Jessica Dierauer and Peter Gannon
GSD&M
David Rockwood
Deutsch
David Rocco
Elias Arts
Jason Kramer
BEST MUSIC SUPERVISION – TRAILERS
Inherent Vice– Teaser
Vanessa Jorge [Aspect Ratio]
Interstellar – Trailer #2
Bobby Gumm [Trailer Park]
Mad Max – Teaser
Sanaz Lavaedian [Mocean]
50 Shades Of Grey – Teaser
Serena Undercolfer [Concept Arts]
Birdman – Teaser
Chase Casanova [Mark Woolen]
Two categories will be awarded by the Guild Of Music Supervisors Board of Directors based on excellence in use of music by a studio department:
2014 STUDIO AWARD FOR MUSIC IN FILM
2014 STUDIO AWARD FOR MUSIC IN TELEVISION
For more abut the Guild of Music Supervisors, visit their website.