• Friday, Feb. 7, 2020
Music Notes
"Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," "Queen & Slim," "Bombshell" Among Feature Winners At Guild of Music Supervisors Awards
Burt Bacharach received the Icon Award at the 10th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards in Los Angeles on Friday (2/6) night.
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Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, Queen & Slim, Waves, The Last Black Man In San Francisco and Bombshell took feature film honors at the Guild of Music Supervisors 10th annual award ceremony held last night (2/6) at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. 

Among the TV winners were Euphoria, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Better Call Saul and the telefilms Native Son and The Dirt (which tied in the TV movie category for best music supervision).

The award honor outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision in movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers. Over 1,000 attendees joined the Guild to celebrate the 31 crafts makers, who were recognized for their 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. 
 
President of the Guild of Music Supervisors Joel C. High said, “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 Bacharach received the Guild of Music Supervisors Icon Award to honor his 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 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’s a full category-by-category rundown of the evening’s winners:
 
FILM
 
Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million
Mary Ramos - Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood 

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $25 Million

Kier Lehman - Queen & Slim 

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million
Meghan Currier, Randall Poster – Waves 

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Million
Terri D’Ambrosio - The Last Black Man In San Francisco 

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for a Film
“One Little Soldier” from Bombshell 
Writer: Regina Spektor
Performed By: Regina Spektor
Music Supervisor: Evyen Klean
 
TELEVISION

Best Music Supervision - Television Drama
Adam Leber, Jen Malone - Euphoria - Season 1 

Best Music Supervision - Television Comedy or Musical
Robin Urdang - The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - Season 2 

Best Music Supervision - Reality Television
Jill Meyers - Songland - Season 1 

Best Music Supervision - Television Movie 
***TIE*** (2 WINNERS)
Howard Paar - Native Son 
Joe Rudge, Chris Swanson - The Dirt 

Best Song Written and/or Recorded for Television
“Something Stupid” from Better Call Saul 
Songwriter(s): C. Carson Parks
Artist: Lola Marsh
Program: Better Call Saul
Episode: #407 “Something Stupid”
Music Supervisor: Thomas Golubić

DOCUMENTARIES

Best Music Supervision in a Documentary
Tracy McKnight – Halston 

Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries
Rudy Chung, Jonathan Christiansen - Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men 

TRAILERS

Best Music Supervision in a Trailer
Anny Colvin (Jax) - Joker Teaser 
 
ADVERTISING

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Sync)
David Taylor, Scott McDaniel, Jonathan Wellbelove - Apple iPhone “Color Flood” 

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Original Music)
David Taylor, Scott McDaniel, Jonathan Wellbelove - Apple Watch “Hokey Pokey” 

VIDEO GAMES

Best Music Supervision in a Video Game
Cybele Pettus, Raphaella Lima - FIFA 20 

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