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A discussion on the music of Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” and actress-producer Issa Rae will lead the Guild of Music Supervisors 8th annual State of Music in Media Conference on Oct. 1. The event will take place at the LA Film School in Hollywood, and will be an in-person and virtual hybrid event.

The programming will focus on discussions about the craft of music supervision, along with topics like “Everything You Wanted To Know About Trailers, But You Were Afraid to Ask.” There will also be networking opportunities with industry leaders and panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, documentaries, games, and more.

Program highlights, as described by the Guild, are below. Panel titles and speakers are subject to change; visit https://www.gmsmediaconference.com/ for ongoing updates.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Trailers, But You Were Afraid to Ask

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“A Star Is Born” took home multiple wins at the 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, held tonight at the theater at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The event celebrates the highest achievements in music supervision, recognizing exemplary work in 18 categories across movies, television, games, advertising, and trailers (read Variety‘s Gms Awards preview here.)

See the full list of winners below.

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Over $25 Million

Julia Michels and Julianne Jordan – “A Star Is Born”

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under 25 Million

Tom Wolfe and Manish Raval – “Green Book”

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $10 Million

Margaret Yen and Alison Litton – “Vox Lux”

Best Music Supervision for Film Budgeted Under $5 Milli on

Joe Rudge – “Eighth Grade”

Best Song/Recording Created for a Film

“Shallow” from “A Star Is Born”

Music Supervisors: Julia Michels and Julianne Jordan

Artists: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper

Songwriters: Stefani Germanotta,...

“A Star Is Born,” “Black Panther” and “Mary Poppins Returns” are among the films that have received multiple nominations from the Guild of Music Supervisors, which announces the nominees for its 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards on Thursday.

All three of those films were nominated in the Best Music Supervision for a Film Budgeted Over $25 Million category, alongside “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Peter Rabbit.” They were also nominated for individual songs: “A Star Is Born” for Lady Gaga’s “Shallow,” “Black Panther” for Kendrick Lamar’s “All the Stars” and “Mary Poppins Returns” for Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s “Trip a Little Light Fantastic.”

The other nominated songs are Dolly Parton’s “Girl in the Movies,” from “Dumplin’,” and Post Malone and Swae Lee’s “Sunflower” from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the only song nominated by the Gms that is not on the Academy’s short list of...

A veteran music supervisor for television and movies, Jennifer Pyken landed her first Emmy nomination for her work on NBC’s “This Is Us.” This native New Yorker-turned-Valley Girl started out as an Island Records intern and continues to showcase her diverse musical range with the Netflix teen comedy, “The Package,” which bowed Aug. 10.

This is only the second year that music supervisors have even been eligible for Emmys. Why do you think it took so long to receive recognition?

People sometimes think of music as an afterthought — but it’s so important. Our guild is fairly new: It’s six years old. So we had to go and explain to them what we do and how much we put into the show and what the process is. And by doing that, they were able to get that as a new category. It took a little bit of work.

The Music Supervision category at the 2018 Emmys is now one year old, with “Big Little Lies” winning the inaugural trophy last year. Now in its second year of existence, Best Music Supervision honors the best in television soundtracks. It is the music supervisor’s job to attain the rights to licensed songs and generally oversee the usage of music in a series. This year’s nominees include “Atlanta,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Stranger Things,” “This Is Us” and “Westworld.”

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“Stranger Things” is the only show to repeat from last year, but its fellow nominees includes four other shows that the Emmys really love, so this could be one of the most competitive categories on Emmy night. Which series will win the Emmy for Best Music Supervision? Let...

For the first time ever, the 2017 Primetime Emmys will hand out an award for Outstanding Music Supervision, acknowledging the creative contributions made by the music supervisors on TV series. It’s an award that’s long overdue; music supervision is an often misunderstood art form thought to be as simple as pulling songs off an iPod. “There’s so much work that goes into it that you don’t see on the screen,” says Amanda Krieg Thomas,...