Music Week Sync Awards 2016 finalists revealed

Sync Awards

The Music Week Sync Awards return on Thursday October 20 – and now this year’s finalists can be revealed.

The 19 categories showcase the best and most successful sync placements across an entire range of media, including film, TV, video games and online. And the shortlists include some of the biggest names in the industry, including all the major labels and publishers, as well as a huge range of independent and up-and-coming talent.

A wide range of artists are also involved, with the likes of Jamie N Commons, Birdy, Jess Glynne, Brolin, Mark Ronson and Izzy Bizu battling it out for the prestigious Sync Artist Of The Year crown. Meanwhile, the shortlist for the highly-prized Sync Of The Year will be announced on the night.

Voting will now be carried out by a series of specialist judging panels, comprising of professionals from across all sectors of the industry.

Tables and tickets for the event are selling fast – to make sure you don’t miss out on your moment of glory, please go here to reserve your place.

And here are the nominations in full…

 

Individual Syncs:

 

Category 1: TV Show: Drama

 

1. All We Do - Oh Wonder / Featured in: Unforgotten

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: ITV 

 

2. Blackstar - David Bowie / Featured in: Last Panthers

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: RZO Music / Supervisor: Johan Renck

 

3. Edelweiss - Jeanette Olsson Featured in: Man In The High Castle

Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: Gary Calamar

 

4. Fly - Ludovico Einaudi / Featured in: Doctor Foster

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Music Sales / Supervisor: Iain Cooke

 

5. In Your Dreams - Dark Dark Dark / Featured in: Thirteen

Label: Melodic Records / Publisher: Bucks / Supervisor: Iain Cooke

 

6. Judgement Day – Stealth / Featured in: Suits

Label: Tile Yard / Publisher: Sentric Music / Supervisor: A&G Sync

 

7.There’s A Storm A-Coming- Richard Hawley / Featured in: You, Me & The Apocalypse

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: UMPG / Supervisor: Shiv Kalaria

 

8. Throne - Bring Me The Horizon Featured in: Hollyoaks

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: BMG / Supervisor: Kate Blakemore, Lime Pictures

 

9. Tremors – SOHN / Featured in: The Five

Label: 4AD/Beggars / Publisher: Kobalt / Supervisor: Iain Cooke

 

 

Category 2: TV Show: Sport

 

1. I Believe It Now - Everything Everything / Featured in: BT Sport Premier League

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: BMG / Supervisor: Jim Brackpool, BT Sport

 

2. La Foule - Izzy Bizu / Featured in: BBC Euro 2016

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Tom Clough, Sony Music & Chris Grubb, BBC Sport

 

3. Stronger Than Ever - Raleigh Ritchie / Featured in: BT Sport

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: UMPG/Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Pete Kelly, BT Sport

 

4. Turn Up - The Heavy / Featured in: NCAA March Madness

Label: Ninja Tune / Publisher: Just Isn’t Music / Supervisor: TBC

 

5. Watch Me Rise (Scribz Riley Remix) - Mikky Ekko / Featured in: Sky EFL Cup

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Steven Wheeler, Sky TV

 

Category 3: TV Advert

 

1. Diamond Hoo Ha Man – Supergrass / Featured in: Axe/Lynx - Find Your Magic

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Big Sync Music

 

2. Get Up – Elektrons / Featured in: Android UK - LeeFest

Label: Wall Of Sound/PIAS / Publisher: Bucks /Sony/ATV  / Supervisor: Arnold Hattingh & Paul Brown, Platinum Rye

 

3. Half The World Away – Aurora / Featured in: John Lewis Christmas '15 - The Man on the Moon

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Leland Music

 

4. High Ball Stepper - Jack White / Featured in: Magnum Ice Cream - Release The Beast

Label: XL/Beggars / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Big Sync Music

 

5. I Dreamed A Dream - Sarah Kingsmill / Featured in: Freeview 'Set Yourself Free'

Label: TBC / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Jane Jones, Jeff Wayne Music

 

6. I've Gotta Be Me - Sammy Davis Jr / Featured in: Sky Q

Label: Charley Acquisitions / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Dan Dunbar, The Sync Agency/Zoe Hewlett, Sky

 

7. Mad World - Jennifer Ann / Featured in: Lloyds - For Your Next Step

Label: TBC / Publisher: BMG / Supervisor: Tom Stanford, Theodore

 

8. Sax - Fleur East / Featured in: Asda -#becauseitschristmas

Label: Sony Music / Publisher:Sony/ATV/Kobalt/UMPG /BMG / Supervisor: David Bass

 

9. Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson / Featured in: M&S Christmas ‘15  - TheArtOfChristmas

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: BMG/Imagem/Sony/ATV /New Songs Administration Ltd / Supervisor: Dan Neale, Native Music

 

10. You Don’t Own MeGrace / Featured in: House Of Fraser

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Rupert Hollier & Tom Nichols, Metropolis

 

Category 4: Film Soundtrack

 

1. Bolero - Lorin Mazel / Featured in: Eddie The Eagle

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: UMPG / Supervisor: Ian Neil

 

2. Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Patrick Wilson / Featured in: The Conjuring 2

Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: Dana Sano

 

3. Catch The Wind - Oliver Daldry / Featured in: Departure

Label: Wake The Town / Publisher: Wake The Town / Supervisor: Marcus Brooke-Smith, Theodore

 

4. Hymn To Her - The Pretenders / Featured in: Uncle Howard

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Frederic Schindler, Too Young Music

 

5. Karma Police – Radiohead / Featured in: Kill Your Friends

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Rich Robinson, Warner Music

 

6. S.O.S – Portishead / Featured in: High-Rise

Label: Portishead / Publisher: Bocu Music/UMPG / Supervisor: Ian Neil

 

Category 5: Trailer (TV)

 

1. Fool's Gold - The Stone Roses Featured in: This Is England '90

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: Channel 4

 

2. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group / Featured in: Sky Breadth Of Sport

Label: Universal / Publisher: UMPG/Kobalt / Supervisor: Shiv Kalaria, Sky Sports

 

3. Genesis – Justice / Featured in: BBC Euro 2016 - Liberté, Egalité, Footé

Label: Ed Banger/Because Music / Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: Dan Neale, Native Music

 

4. Nature Boy - Shirley Bassey / Featured in: BBC Sir David Attenborough At 90

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: BBC

 

5. Not Gonna Break Me - Jamie N Commons / Featured in: BBC Rio Olympics

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: UMPG / Supervisor: Dan Neale, Native Music

 

6. Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Featured in: Deutschland ‘83

Label: BMG / Publisher: BMG / Supervisor: Alisha Lazare, Channel 4

           

7. Yes I Can - The Superhuman Band / Featured in: Rio Paralympics 2016 - We're The Superhumans

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Warner/Chappell / Supervisor: Leland Music/ Music Clearance: Pretti Hanumara, Channel 4

 

 

 

Category 6: Trailer (Film)

 

1. Bamboleo - Gypsy Kings Featured in: The Peanuts Movie

Label:  Sony Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: 20th Century Fox

 

2. Get Ugly - Jason Derulo / Featured in: Absolutely Fabulous

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: BMG/Warner/Chappell /Sony/ATV / Supervisor:  Sarah Bridge / Tom Lewis, Create Advertising

 

3. I Think We're Alone Now – Tommy James & The Shondells / Featured in: 10 Cloverfield Lane Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV

 

4. Je T'Aime… Moi Non Plus – Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin / Featured in: Absolutely Fabulous

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Music Sales / Supervisor: Tom Lewis, Create Advertising

 

5. Love On A Real Train - Tangerine Dream / Featured in: High-Rise

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: UMPG / Supervisor: William Quiney, Empire Design/Vamanos Music

 

6. My Funny Valentine - Ethan Hawke / Featured in: Born To Be Blue

Publisher: Imagem / Supervisor: Cody Partridge, Supergroup Sonic Branding

 

7. Photograph - Ed Sheeran / Featured in: Me Before You

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV/Kobalt

 

8. Rumba Yo Quiero - Sr. Ortegon / Featured in: Puerto Ricans In Paris

Label: Palma Coco / Publisher: Cezame Music Agency / Supervisor: Adam Weitz, APM Music

 

Category 7: Trailer (Video Game)

 

1. Fire – Kasabian / Featured in: Just Cause 3

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Glenn Herweijer, Feel For Music

 

2. Get Your Fight On-The Prodigy / Featured in: EA Sports UFC Mobile

Label: Cooking Vinyl / Publisher: BMG/Catskills / Supervisor: Raphaella Lima, EA Games

 

3. In The Heat Of The Moment - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Featured in: Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Label: Big Brother/Ignition / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Ben Sumner, Feel For Music

 

4. Lighthouse - Patrick Watson / Featured in: Sea Hero Quest – Memories Of A Sea Hero

Label:  Domino Records / Publisher: Secret City Records / Supervisor: House Of Emeralds

 

5. Song 2 (Madeon Remix) – Blur / Featured in: FIFA ‘17

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Warner/Chappell/ EMI Music Publishing/Wixen Music Supervisor: Raphaella Lima

 

6. The Sound Of Silence – Disturbed Featured in: Gears Of War 4

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: UMPG /

 

7. Stand By Me - Florence And The Machine / Featured in: Final Fantasy XV

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Ben Sumner, Feel For Music

 

 

 

Category 8: Online / Viral Advert

 

1. ‘A’ You're Adorable – Hugo Goggin/Malory Torr / Featured in: Pearsons Project Literacy

Label: Felt Recordings / Publisher: Music Sales /Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Natalie Dickens, Felt Music

 

2. Elegy For The Arctic - Ludovico Einaudi / Featured in: Greenpeace

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: Music Sales / Supervisor: TBC

 

3. Every Breath You Take - Gareth Malone Breathless Choir / Featured in: Philips - Innovation & You

Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Ruth Darsow, Ogilvy & Mather 

 

4. Heartbeat Song - The Futureheads / Featured in: Bupa - How Is Your Body Performing?

Label:  Big Life Management / Publisher: Kobalt / Supervisor: Nick Nash, Tin Drum

 

5. Lush Life - Zara Larsson / Featured in: Clinique

Label: Sony Music / Publisher: Kobalt /

 

6. Sort It Out Sharon Ft. WileyDusky / Featured in: Adidas Football – Blah Blah Blah

Label: Universal Globe / Publisher: BMG / Supervisor: Record Play /Daniel Cross, Adidas

 

7. Wired Up - Count De Money / Featured in: Coco De Mer – X

Label: Koka Media / Publisher: Universal Publishing Production Music / Supervisor: Dave Bass

 

8. Young Blood – Birdy / Featured in: Cesar

Label: Warner Music / Publisher: Sony/ATV / Supervisor: Thomas Johashen-Wright  

 

Category 9: International Breakout Project

 

1. Flo Morrissey

 

2. Zara Larsson

 

3. The Heavy

 

4. Songhoy Blues

 

5. Kaleo

 

 

Category 10: Sync Artist Of The Year

 

1. Jamie N Commons

 

2. Birdy

 

3. Jess Glynne

 

4. Brolin

 

5. Mark Ronson

 

6. Izzy Bizu

 

 

 

Sync Teams:

 

Category 1: Record Company

 

1. BMG

 

2. Sony Music

 

3. Universal Globe

 

4. Warner Music

 

 

Category 2: Independent Record Company

 

1. Because Music

 

2. Beggars Group

 

3. Believe Sync

 

4. Cooking Vinyl

 

5. Ninja Tune

 

6. [PIAS]

 

 

Category 3: Publisher

 

1. BMG

 

2. Sony/ATV Music Publishing

 

3. Universal Music Publishing Group

 

4. Warner/Chappell Music

 

 

Category 4: Independent Publisher

 

1. A&G Songs

 

2. Beggars Music

 

3. Bucks Music Group

 

4. Downtown Music Publishing

 

5. Imagem

 

6. Just Isn’t Music

 

7. Kobalt Music Publishing

 

8. Manners McDade

 

9. Music Sales Group

 

10. Sentric Music Publishing

 

 

Category 5: Agency

 

1. Adam & Eve DDB

 

2. AMV BBDO

 

3. Brothers And Sisters

 

4. Mother London

 

5. 18 Feet & Rising

 

 

Category 6: Broadcaster Music Department

 

1. BBC Music Copyright

 

2. BT Sport

 

3. Channel 4

 

4. ITV

 

5. Sky

 

 

Music Supervisors:

 

Category 1: Advertising

 

1. Dan Dunbar - The Sync Agency

 

2. Dan Neale – Native

 

3. David Bass – Theodore

 

4. Ed Bailie - Leland Music

 

5. Frederic Schindler - Too Young Music

 

6. Lisa James (Hart) – Big Sync

 

7. Sophie Urquhart - Tin Drum Music

 

 

Category 2: Film

 

1. Gary Welch – Eyehear

 

2. Iain Cooke - Iain Cooke

 

3. Jen Moss - Warner Music Supervision

 

4. Karen Elliott - HotHouse Music

 

5. Will Quiney - Vamanos Music

 

Category 3: TV

 

1. Amelia Hartley - Endemol Shine UK

 

2. Andrea Madden - Monkey Kingdom

 

3. Iain Cooke - Iain Cooke

 

4. Matt Biffa – Air-Edel

 

5. Pete Kelly - BT Sport

 

 

 



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