‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘Promising Young Woman,’ ‘Better Call Saul’ among Music Supervisors Guild nominees

The Guild of Music Supervisors announced today the nominees of their 11^th annual award ceremony celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in film, television, games, advertising, and trailers.  

This year’s motion picture nominees include Soul, Bill & Ted Face The Music, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, I’m Your Woman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Palm Springs, and Promising Young Woman among others, while television categories include acclaimed series like Better Call Saul, Watchmen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You. Best Music Supervision for Documentary nominations include Crip Camp, Mr. Soul!, Belushi, and The Last Dance. In the video game category, Cyberpunk 2077, FIFA 21, and Wasteland 3 were highlighted as nominees. Apple, New York Times, Facebook and more were among the nominees in the advertising category.

Maureen Crowe, the founding President of the Guild of Music Supervisors, will receive the organization’s prestigious Legacy Award, honoring those music supervisors who have excelled within the craft of music supervision. Announced earlier, this year’s Icon Award honoree will be the legendary Quincy Jones. Jones and Crowe will receive their honors at the 11^th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards taking place virtually on Sunday, April 11.

Songwriters, Artists and Music Supervisors together will be recognized for the Best Song Written And/Or Recorded For Film category. This year’s nominees include “Turntables” from All In: The Fight for Democracy performed by Janelle Monáe, “Love Myself” from The High Note performed by Tracee Ellis Ross, “Mark It Work” from Jingle Jangle performed by Forest Whitaker and Anika Noni Rose, “Carried Me with You” from Onward performed by Brandi Carlile, and “Hear My Voice” from The Trail of the Chicago 7 performed by Celeste.  The Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television category include “Build It Up” from Little Fires Everywhere performed by Ingrid Michaelson, “Memorized” from This Is Us performed by Blake Stadnik, “One Less Angel” from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel performed by Darius de Haas, “The Way It Used To Be” from Watchmen performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and “The Whole of the Moon” from The Affair performed by Fiona Apple.

Here is the full list of nominees.

FILM

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million
Jonathan Leahy – Bill & Ted Face The Music
Becky Bentham – Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
Julia Michels – Jingle Jangle
Tom MacDougall – Soul
Angela Leus (uncredited) – Trolls World Tour

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million
Season Kent – Happiest Season
Linda Cohen – The High Note
Dan Wilcox – I’m Your Woman
Kevin Edelman – I Still Believe
Dawn Sutter Madell – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million
Tracy McKnight – The Half Of It
Liz Gallacher – Military Wives
Robin Urdang – Palm Springs
Susan Jacobs – Promising Young Woman

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million
Jessica Moore – Babyteeth
Greg Danylyshyn – Burden
Dondrea Erauw, Michael Perlmutter – The Cuban
Joe Rodríguez & Javier Nuño – I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí)
Adèle Ho, Graham Kurzner – Yellow Rose

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film
“Turntables” from All In: The Fight for Democracy
Writer: George “George 2.0” A. Peters II, Janelle “Django Jane” Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III Performed By: Janelle Monáe
Music Supervisor: Andrew Gross

“Love Myself” from The High Note
Writer: Greg Kurstin, Sarah Aarons
Performed By: Tracee Ellis Ross
Music Supervisor: Linda Cohen

“Make It Work” from Jingle Jangle
Writer: John Stephens
Performed By: Forest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose
Music Supervisor: Julia Michels

“Carried Me with You” from Onward
Writer: Brandi Carlile, Phil Hanseroth, Tim Hanseroth
Performed By: Brandi Carlile

Music Supervisor: Tom MacDougall

“Hear My Voice” from The Trial of Chicago 7
Writer: Celeste Waite, Daniel Pemberton
Performed By: Celeste
Music Supervisor: Peter Afterman, Alison Litton

TELEVISION

Best Music Supervision – Television Drama
Ashley Neumeister – American Soul – Season 2
Thomas Golubić – Better Call Saul – Season 5
Amanda Krieg Thomas, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ryan Murphy – Hollywood – Season 1
Sarah Bromberg, Stephanie Diaz-Matos – P-Valley – Season 1
Liza Richardson – Watchmen – Season 1

Best Music Supervision – Television Comedy or Musical
Andrea von Foerster – Daybreak – Season 1
Manish Raval, Alison Rosenfeld, Tom Wolfe – High Fidelity – Season 1
Kier Lehman – Insecure – Season 4
Robin Urdang – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Season 3
Matt Biffa – Sex Education – Season 2

Best Music Supervision – Reality Television
Robin Kaye, Ashley Viergever – American Idol – Season 4
Cathy Duncan – America’s Most Musical Family – Season 1
Matthew Hearon-Smith – Legendary – Season 1
Meryl Ginsberg – The Masked Singer – Season 3

Best Music Supervision – Television Movie
Mandi Collier, Frankie Pine – Patsy & Loretta
Liz Gallacher – The Sleepover
Marius de Vries – Stargirl
Warren Fischer, Laura Webb, Lindsay Wolfington – To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television
Title: “Build It Up”
Songwriter: Ingrid Michaelson
Artist: Ingrid Michaelson
Program: Little Fires Everywhere
Episode: #108 “Find a Way”
Music Supervisor: Mary Ramos

Title: “Memorized”
Songwriters: Taylor Goldsmith, Siddhartha Khosla
Artist: Blake Stadnik
Program: This Is Us
Episode: #401 “Strangers”
Music Supervisors: Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe

Title: “One Less Angel”
Songwriters: Thomas Mizer, Curtis Moore
Artist: Darius de Haas
Program: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Episode: #301 “Strike Up the Band”
Music Supervisor: Robin Urdang

Title: “The Way It Used to Be”
Songwriters: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Artists: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Program: Watchmen
Episode: #106 “This Extraordinary Being”
Music Supervisor: Liza Richardson

Title: “The Whole of the Moon”
Songwriter: Michael Scott
Artist: Fiona Apple
Program: The Affair
Episode: #511
Music Supervisor: Michael Hill

DOCUMENTARIES

Best Music Supervision for a Documentary
Liz Gallacher – Belushi
Aminé Ramer – Crip Camp
Ian Neil – Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan
Chris Robertson – Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President
Ed Gerrard – Mr. Soul!

Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries
Jon Ernst – Cheer (Note: Everyone on the committee is aware of current legal allegations going on against some of the cast members of the show. However, we decided to push this docuseries through, because the Doc Committees’ job was to analyze the music supervision done in this docuseries.)
Willa Yudell – Helter Skelter: An American Myth
Rudy Chung – The Last Dance
Dan Wilcox – Street Food: Latin America

TRAILERS

Best Music Supervision in a Trailer
Mike Lynn – Judas And The Black Messiah
Brian Murphy – Jungleland
Gregory Sweeney – Land
Chase Casanova – Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Mike Lynn – Pieces of A Woman

ADVERTISING

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Synch)
David Lapinsky – Procter & Gamble “The Choice”
Andy Hamm – Apple “A Journey Into The Valley Of Fire – Shot on iPhone”
Mike Ladman – New York Times “Life Needs Truth”
Mike Ladman – Facebook “Never Lost”
Andrew Kahn, Morgan Thoryk – Zillow “The Real Value of Home”

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Original Music)
Rebecca Grierson – JaxJox “The All-In-One Interactive Studio”
Andrew Kahn, Morgan Thoryk – Xfinity Mobile “Go Your Own Way”
Jessie Kalikow – Apple – “The Magic Of Mini feat. Tierra Whack”
Jonathan Wellbelove – Apple iPhone 12 Pro – “Make Movies Like The Movies”
Mike Ladman – Hennessy “Maurice And The Black Bear School”

VIDEO GAMES

Best Music Supervision in a Video Game
Karyn Rachtman – BEYOND BLUE
Eric Craig – Cyberpunk 2077
Cybele Pettus – FIFA 21
Eric Kalver – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
Mary Ramos – Wasteland 3

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