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Two time Grammy-winning, four-time Guild of Music Supervisors Award winner and Emmy-nominated Music Supervisor Steven Gizicki is best known for his work on Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land. That now-classic film scored rare double wins in the Best Original Song and Original Score categories at both the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. And Steven himself was awarded a Grammy for his work on the soundtrack album and two prizes from the Guild of Music Supervisors. Steven’s latest release is James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet. The film introduced a new generation of fans to Bob Dylan’s catalog and Steven was awarded Best Music Supervision in Mid-Budget Films for his work by the Guild of Music Supervisors. Other recent projects include the Academy Award-winning stop-motion musical Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio with legendary composer Alexandre Desplat and Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro, for which Steven recently received his second Grammy award for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media. Steven’s additional large-scale musical projects include Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick…tick…BOOM!, which garnered him top honors at the 2022 Guild Of Music Supervisors Awards, and Jon Chu’s In the Heights, giving Steven his second number one soundtrack album and another Grammy nomination. Upcoming projects include Jesse Eisenberg’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning A Real Pain; a musical comedy starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, Max Minghella’s futuristic thriller Shell starring Elizabeth Moss and Kate Hudson and an animated Peanuts feature from Apple Films. He is currently in post-production on Tuner, the debut dramatic feature from Academy Award winning filmmaker Daniel Roher (Navalny). He also led the Original Films music department at Netflix for several years. Project highlights include Don’t Look Up, Purple Hearts, Leave The World Behind and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. While known primarily for his film work, Steven also supervised the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Past projects include the films Teen Spirit, Crazy Rich Asians (overseeing on-camera music scenes), Arctic and Smallfoot as well as Perfect Harmony for FOX Television and oversight of music production for Hamilton: The Exhibition. Steven also spent numerous years as a studio music executive overseeing music at Lucasfilm under the direction of George Lucas himself, and at Disney Animation. He began his music career as a soundtrack executive at PolyGram and marketing executive at Virgin Records, where he worked closely with music icons David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz and Sex Pistols. |
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Steven on addressing common misconceptions about what a music supervisor does:
"I think the most common misconception... is that our job is exclusively to pick songs... But really, our job encompasses, we supervise all the music. We oversee the composer, we work with music editors. I live half of my life on set, overseeing actors and musicians, casting musicians, working with actors, getting them into vocal training... Our job is wider than just picking a song for a placement."
-Steven Gizicki
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Advice from a Top Music Supervisor - Steven Gizicki [La La Land, A Complete Unknown] [MIP115]
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