BMI Celebrates With Guild of Music Supervisors and Others at Annual GMS Awards

BMI’s Doreen Ringer-Ross joined Guild of Music Supervisors founder Maureen Crowe, as well as several other industry notables at the GMS annual awards on February 13, at the Theatre at The Ace Hotel in Los Angeles. The awards are presented with the purpose of highlighting and celebrating the highest achievement of music use in games, advertising, trailers, promos, film, and television. Among those honored were composer and lyricist Marc Shaiman, who received the Icon Award, and Joel Sill, who was given the Legacy Award. The evening’s winners also included:

Best Music Supervision for Films Budgeted Over $25 Million
Julia Michels and Julianne Jordan for A Star is Born

Best Music Supervision for Films Budgeted Under $25 Million
Tom Wolfe and Manish Raval for Green Book

Best Music Supervision for Films Budgeted Under $10 Million
Margaret Yen and Alison Litton for Vox Lux

Best Music Supervision for Films Budgeted Under $5 Million
Joe Rudge for Eighth Grade

Best Song/Recording Created for a Film
“Shallow” from A Star is Born
Performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper
Written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
Music Supervisors: Julia Michels and Julianne Jordan

Best Music Supervision for a Documentary
Liz Gallacher for Studio 54

Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama
Jennifer Pyken for This Is Us

Best Music Supervision in a Television Comedy/Musical
Robin Urdang for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 1)

Best Music Supervision in a Docuseries or Reality Television
(TIE) Amine Ramer for Flint Town (Season 1) & Evyen Klean for Mike Judge Presents: Tales From the Tour Bus (Season 1)

Best Music Supervision in a Television Limited Series or Movie
(TIE) Susan Jacobs for Sharp Objects & Lindsay Wolfington and Laura Webb for To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Best Song/Recording Created for Television
“Juneteenth” for Black-ish
Written by Aloe Blacc, Peter Saji, Derek Watkins, Faune Watkins and Hilton Wright
Performed by the cast of Black-ish
Music Supervisor: Gabe Hilfer

Best Music Supervision in a Film Trailer
Jordan Silverberg (Transit) for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Trailer 1)

Best Music Supervision in a Television Promo
Brian Murphy (BOND) for Maniac Official Trailer

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Synch)
David Taylor, Peymon Maskan, Josh Marcy, Jessie F Kalikow for Welcome Home (Apple)

Best Music Supervision in Advertising (Original Composition)
David Taylor, Scott McDaniel, Jonathan Wellbelove for Unlock (Apple)

Best Music Supervision in a Video Game
Ivan Pavlovich for Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)