The Guild of Music Supervisors held its twelfth annual awards ceremony nearly on March 20.
Recognizing those that excel on the craft of music supervision in movie, tv, documentaries, video games, promoting and trailers, the night time’s large winners included HBO’s “The White Lotus,” supervised by Janet Lopez, who gave an impassioned acceptance speech, thanking the music makers of Hawaii for taking her name, and Liza Richardson for “Lovecraft Nation” season 1. The Netflix movie “Tick, Tick… Growth!,” supervised by Steven Gizicki, took residence the prize for movie budgeted over $25 million. Mandi Collier gained twice for her work on “Sylie’s Love & Zola,” and “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda and sung by Sebastian Yatra (and nominated for an Academy Award), gained for greatest track written and/or recorded for a movie.
Receiving particular honors have been Diane Warren (the Icon Award), for her quite a few songs to soundtrack main movies, and Mitchell Leib (Legacy Award). The 2 introduced one another with their respective awards.
Presenters included Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Ryan Tedder, Marlon Wayans, Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky), Rickey Minor, Rufus Wainwright, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, Laura Karpman, Glen Hansard and Steve Burns. Artists who carried out included Bahari (“Savage”), Goapele (“Look At Us” from “Homecoming”) and Aloe Blacc (“Someway You Do,” written by Warren).
The Guild of Music Supervisors was based in 2010 and, along with its annual awards, hosts various networking and academic occasions. Amongst them is the info-packed State of Music in Media Convention.
See under for the whole Guild of Music Supervisors Awards winners checklist:
FILM
Finest Music Supervision for Movie Budgeted Over $25 Million
Steven Gizicki – Tick, Tick… Growth!
Finest Music Supervision for Movie Budgeted Beneath $25 Million
Julianne Jordan, Justine von Winterfeldt – Barb And Star Go To Vista Del Mar
Finest Music Supervision for Movie Budgeted Beneath $10 Million
Mandi Collier, Frankie Pine – Sylvie’s Love
Finest Music Supervision for Movie Budgeted Beneath $5 Million
Mandi Collier, Jen Malone, Nicole Weisberg – Zola
Finest Track Written and/or Recorded for a Movie
“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto
Songwriter: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Performer: Sebastián Yatra
Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall
TELEVISION
Finest Music Supervision – Tv Drama
Liza Richardson – Lovecraft Nation – Season 1
Finest Music Supervision – Tv Comedy or Musical
Janet Lopez – The White Lotus – Season 1
Finest Music Supervision – Actuality Tv
Sarah Bromberg, Stephanie Diaz-Matos, Eric Medina – Candy Life: Los Angeles – Season 1
Finest Music Supervision – Tv Film
Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington – To All The Boys: At all times And Without end
Finest Track Written and/or Recorded for Tv
Title: “F*** The Ache Away”
Songwriter: Merrill Nisker (aka Peaches)
Performers: The Moordale Singers and Oli Julian
Program: Intercourse Training
Episodes 302 and 307
Music Supervisor: Matt Biffa
DOCUMENTARIES
Finest Music Supervision for a Documentary
Angela Asistio – Val
Finest Music Supervision in a Docuseries
Aminé Ramer – HBO Music Field Collection: “Mr. Saturday Evening,” “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, And Rage,” “Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss,” “DMX: Don’t Attempt To Perceive,” “Jagged,” “Listening to Kenny G”
TRAILERS
Finest Music Supervision in a Trailer
Toddrick Spalding – King Richard
ADVERTISING
Finest Music Supervision in Promoting (Synch)
Jonathan Wellbelove – Apple – “iPhone 12 – Fumble”
Finest Music Supervision in Promoting (Unique Music)
Jonathan Hecht, Sarah Tembeckjian – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Basis, The Trombone Shorty Basis – “Rise And Shine”
VIDEO GAMES
Finest Music Supervision in a Video Recreation
Raphaella Lima, Cybele Pettus, Ben Werdegar – FIFA 22