Wins Best Music Supervision in a Video Game for FIFA 18
(Nashville, Tenn. – Feb. 13, 2018) The Guild of Music Supervisors honored Electronic Arts’ Worldwide Executive and President of Music Steve Schnur alongside Cybele Pettus and Raphaella Lima for their work on placing music and producing score for FIFA 18. Awarded with the Best Music Supervision in a Video Game, Schnur and his team were recognized Thursday, Feb. 8 at the 2018 Guild of Music Supervisors awards in Los Angeles.
The FIFA 18 soundtrack features more than 40 songs from artists representing over a dozen countries. The game also features an original cinematic score composed by JXL aka Tom Holkenborg for The Journey: Hunter ReturnsFIFA Ultimate Team™ kits from some of EA’s soundtracks’ biggest alumni and current superstars. The release includes tracks by international hitmakers Lorde, alt-J, The War On Drugs, The National, Portugal, The Man, The xx, Baloji, Django Django, Run The Jewels and many others. For a full list of artists featured on the release, visit here. FIFA 18 was released worldwide on September 29th.
Schnur’s curation is directed towards the world’s next generation. From Kings of Leon fifteen years ago to Logic in the last few years, games are being credited for introducing acts like these to mass audiences all over the world (NME article here and Noisey articlehere).
Schnur joined Electronic Arts, the global leader in video game software and streaming content, in 2001 to create and continually develop the global vision for music in the company’s games. Since then, he has been responsible for bringing together superstar acts and promising new artists to craft a series of groundbreaking soundtracks that have redefined both the gaming and music industries. Among the artists first introduced to the public by Schnur via EA titles are Thirty Seconds to Mars, Robyn, Fallout Boy, K’naan, Katy Perry, Imagine Dragons, Kings of Leon, The Weeknd, and Florence + The Machine.
Schnur’s hands-on approach to music choice, composer selection, orchestration and production of well over 100 EA soundtrack albums – including original scores for Battlefield 1, The Sims, Madden NFL, Mass Effect, and Star Wars: Battlefront with composers that have included Mark Mothersbaugh, Michael Giacchino, Junkie XL, Steve Jablonsky and Hans Zimmer – has earned EA over 50 soundtrack nominations over the last 10 years.
In his 30+ years in the entertainment industry, Schnur has been an MTV programmer, label executive, television and record producer, music supervisor, composer, and songwriter. He has been profiled by Billboard, CNN, ESPN.com (“EA Execs are music tastemakers”), The New York Times, and London Financial Times, featured in Variety’s ‘Music City Impact Report’, named “One of the Most Creative People In Entertainment” by Entertainment Weekly, “One of the Most Powerful People in the Music Business,” “One of the Top 20 Power Players in the Digital Entertainment,” and on the annual “Nashville Power Player List” by Billboard, and “One of the Top 25 Power Players in the New Hollywood” by The Wall Street Journal. Schnur’s awards include MUSEXPO’s 2009 International Music Person of the Year, the ACLU’s 2009 Bill of Rights Award, The Guild of Music Supervisors’ 2012 Music Supervisor of the Year, and MUSEXPO’s 2014 International Music Supervisor of the Year. Additionally, he is an honoree of The Lili Claire Foundation.
Schnur is currently a Governor on the NARAS Nashville Chapter Board of Directors. Additionally, he serves on the City of Hope board and Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music board. He is a former board member of the Country Music Association; a voting member of the Grammy’s Producers & Engineers Wing; advisor to the Nashville and Tribeca Film Festivals; Music Advisor to Major League Soccer as well as the U.S. National Men’s and Women’s soccer teams; and has served as both Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of The Grammy Foundation.
Steve Schnur
