Guild of Music Supervisors Awards: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ ‘Queen & Slim,’ ‘Euphoria’ among winners

The Guild of Music Supervisors held its landmark 10^th annual award ceremony last week at The Wiltern in Los Angeles celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers. Over 1,000 attendees joined the Guild to honor the 31 crafts makers, who were recognized for their stellar musical accomplishments in 2019. Industry music legends Burt Bacharach and Bob Hunka crowned the evening as Bacharach received this year’s Icon Award, and Hunka received the prestigious Legacy Award. The complete winners list for the 10^thAnnual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards is listed below.

Special guest performers included Grammy Award-nominated singer/songwriter Regina Spektor and the indie pop band Lola Marsh, with both artists taking two of the evening’s awards home. The statues were handed out by a star-studded slate of presenters, including Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Bolton, Daniel Ezra, Dash Mihok, Jay Roach, Reggie Watts, Spencer Paysinger, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian, Alex Winter, and Peter Gallagher. 

President of the Guild of Music Supervisors Joel C. High had this to say about the awards ceremony, “Over the past 10 years, the Guild of Music Supervisors Awards has grown into an important fixture in the Hollywood award circle. We are overjoyed to celebrate with our amazing nominees and winners and to have so many industry luminaries join us as performers, presenters, and guests in the audience. Looking into the future, we hope that these awards will garner more attention from other institutions such as The Academy. To another decade of outstanding music supervision!”

Three-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe-winning songwriter and composer Burt Bacharach received the Guild of Music Supervisors Icon Award to honor his incredible creative achievements in storytelling for films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Alfie, Arthur, Austin Powers, and more. On stage with director Jay Roach (Bombshell, Austin Powers), Bacharach mentioned, “The films that I’ve done I got very INTO the film. Never used a cliptrack; I memorized the film and wrote to what I saw.” 

Legendary country singer Emmylou Harris gave a surprise guest performance before she presented the Legacy Award to her longtime friend Bob Hunka. His career spans managing a Symphony Orchestra (Edmonton), a mobile recording studio (Enactron), an independent record production company that counted Anne Murray, Emmylou Harris and Johnny Cash among its clients (Happy Sack Productions), and Dolly Parton’s music publishing company (Velvet Apple Music). During his acceptance speech Hunka commented, “My philosophy – how I sold it was: we can use the ear to fool the eye. The [big film scenes] will actually look better if there’s big music underneath. THAT is the power of music in film and TV.”

Here is the full list of nominees and winners of the 10th Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for film, television and video games.

FILM

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million

• Mary Ramos – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood *WINNER*
• Tom MacDougall – Frozen II
• Matt Sullivan – Aladdin
• Ted Caplan – Ford v Ferrari
• Randall Poster, Robbie Robertson – The Irishman

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million

• Kier Lehman – Queen & Slim *WINNER*
• Trygge Toven, Toko Nagata – Always Be My Maybe
• Jason Markey – Hustlers
• Zoë Bryant, Pete Saville – Blinded By The Light
• Becky Bentham, Karen Elliott – Judy

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million

• Meghan Currier, Randall Poster – Waves *WINNER*
• Henry Van Roden – Seberg
• Tracy McKnight – 5 Feet Apart
• Zachary Dawes – The Peanut Butter Falcon
• Steven Gizicki – Teen Spirit

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million

• Terri D’Ambrosio – The Last Black Man In San Francisco *WINNER*
• Karen Elliott, Jack Arnold – Wild Rose
• Susan Jacobs, Dylan Neely – The Farewell
• Steve Bouyer Pascal Mayer – Atlantics
• Lynn Fainchtein – Gloria Bell

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film

“One Little Soldier” from Bombshell *WINNER*
Writer: Regina Spektor
Performed By: Regina Spektor
Music Supervisor: Evyen Klean

“Spirit” from The Lion King
Writer: Beyoncé, IIya Salmanzadeh, Timothy Mckenzie
Performed By: Beyoncé
Music Supervisor: Mitchell Leib

“Into The Unknown” from Frozen II
Writer: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Performed by Idina Menzel featuring AURORA
Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall

“Glasgow “(No Place Like Home) from Wild Rose
Writer: Caitlyn Smith, Kate York, Mary Steenburgen
Performed by Jessie Buckley
Music Supervisor: Karen Elliott

“Don’t Call Me Angel” from Charlie’s Angels
Writer: Alma-Sofia Miettinen, Ariana Grande, IIya Salmanzadeh, Elizabeth Grant, Max Martin, Miley Cyrus, Savan Kotecha,
Performed by: Ariana Grande, Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus
Music Supervisor: Julianne Jordan and Julia Michels

TELEVISION

Best Music Supervision – Television Drama

• Adam Leber, Jen Malone – Euphoria – Season 1 *WINNER*
• Madonna Wade-Reed – All American – Season 1
• Ashley Neumeister – American Soul: The Untold Story of Soul Train – Season 1
• Steven Gizicki – Fosse/Verdon – Season 1
• Amanda Krieg Thomas, Alexis Martin Woodall & Ryan Murphy – Pose – Season 2

Best Music Supervision – Television Comedy or Musical

• Robin Urdang – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Season 2 *WINNER*
• Bruce Gilbert – GLOW – Season 3
• Javier Nuño, Joe Rodríguez – Los Espookys – Season 1
• Brienne Rose – Russian Doll – Season 1
• Matt Biffa – Sex Education – Season 1

Best Music Supervision – Reality Television

• Jill Meyers – Songland – Season 1 *WINNER*
• Robin Kaye – American Idol — Season 2
• Meryl Ginsberg – America’s Got Talent – Season 14
• Jen Schwartz, Catherine Wharton – Girls Cruise – Season 1
• Jon Ernst – The Hills: New Beginnings – Season 1

Best Music Supervision – Television Movie 

***TIE*** (2 WINNERS)

• Howard Paar – Native Son *WINNER*
• Joe Rudge, Chris Swanson – The Dirt *WINNER*
• Evyen J Klean, Jennifer Reeve – Deadwood: The Movie
• Evyen J Klean, Janet Lopez – My Dinner With Hervé
• Tracy McKnight – Tall Girl

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television

“Something Stupid” from Better Call Saul *WINNER*
Songwriter(s): C. Carson Parks
Artist: Lola Marsh
Program: Better Call Saul
Episode: #407 “Something Stupid”
Music Supervisor: Thomas Golubić

“All These Things That I’ve Done” from A Million Little Things
Songwriters: Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer, Ronnie Vannucci, Jr.
Artist: Gabriel Mann
Program: A Million Little Things
Episode: #101 “Pilot”
Music Supervisor: Kevin Edelman

“Invisible Ink” from This Is Us
Songwriter(s): Taylor Goldsmith, Siddhartha Khosla
Artist: Mandy Moore
Program: This Is Us
Episode: #307 “Sometimes”
Music Supervisor: Manish Raval and Tom Wolfe

“Jenny of Oldstones” from Game of Thrones
Songwriter(s): David Benioff, Ramin Djawadi, George R.R. Martin, D.B. Weiss
Artist: Florence + The Machine
Program: Game of Thrones
Episode: #802 “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”
Music Supervisor: Evyen J Klean

“On a Roll” from Black Mirror
Songwriter(s): Trent Reznor
Artist: Miley Cyrus
Program: Black Mirror
Episode: #503 “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too”
Music Supervisor: Amelia Hartley

DOCUMENTARIES

Best Music Supervision for a Documentary

• Tracy McKnight – Halston *WINNER*
• Kevin Moyer – Boy Howdy: The Story Of CREEM Magazine
• Aminé Ramer – Love, Antosha
• G. Marq Roswell, Dondi Bastone – The Apollo
• Willa Yudell – Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1

Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries

• Rudy Chung, Jonathan Christiansen – Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men *WINNER*
• Marchese Taylor, Jake Weinreb, Jordan Passman – Free Meek
• Evyen Klean – Mike Judge Presents: Tales From The Tour Bus
• Evyen Klean – What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali

TRAILERS

Best Music Supervision in a Trailer

• Anny Colvin (Jax) – Joker Teaser *WINNER*
• Bobby Gumm (Trailer Park) – Wonder Woman 1984
• Toddrick Spalding (Mobscene) – The Goldfinch
• Danny Exum, Kelsey Mitchell (Workshop Creative) – Bombshell Trailer 1
• Will Quiney (GrandSon) – When They See Us

ADVERTISING

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Sync)

• David Taylor, Scott McDaniel, Jonathan Wellbelove – Apple iPhone “Color Flood” *WINNER*
• Josh Marcy – Apple iPhone “Don’t Mess with Mother”
• Doug Darnell – Lyft “Face Off”
• JT Griffith – Nike “Dominate All Dimensions”

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Original Music)

• David Taylor, Scott McDaniel, Jonathan Wellbelove – Apple Watch “Hokey Pokey” *WINNER*
• Alec Stern – Miller Lite “Followers”
• Nellie Rajabi – Google Pixel “Kiss Detection”
• Eric Johnson, Dan Gross – Fuji Film “Don’t Just Take, Give”

VIDEO GAMES

Best Music Supervision in a Video Game

• Cybele Pettus, Raphaella Lima – FIFA 20 *WINNER*
• Steve Schnur, Venus Bentley – Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
• Brandon Young, Eric Kalver – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
• Daniel Olsen – Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Alex Hackford, Peter Scaturro – Death Stranding