Nominated for Best Supervision in a Video Game with Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
(Nashville, Tenn. – Jan. 13, 2020) –Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive and President of Music for Electronic Arts (EA) was recently named a 2020 Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS) Awards nominee in the Best Music Supervision in a Video Game category, along with Venus Bentley, for their work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. The 10th Annual GMS Awards are scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 6 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, Calif. and will also serve as a celebration for its silver anniversary.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a third-person action-adventure game taking players on their own Jedi journey. The game includes an original score by composers Gordy Haab and Stephen Barton, who was recently honored with an Outstanding Original Score for Interactive Media Award at the Inaugural Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards for their work, as well as music from the band, The Hu.
The two composers recorded 7 hours of music with 300 musicians over 14 days, contributing to the game’s innovative soundtrack.
For more information, to view the rest of the 2020 nominations, or to purchase tickets, visit the official GMS website or the GMS Awards website.
About Steve Schnur: Schnur joined Electronic Arts (EA), 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.
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