On Sunday, April 11, Maureen Crowe, the founding member and president of the Guild of Music Supervisors, will receive the organization’s Legacy Award at its 11th annual awards ceremony, which will be staged virtually.
Crowe, whose credits include The Bodyguard, Wayne’s World, Chicago and Newsies, was instrumental in getting the Television Academy to introduce an award for music supervisors and has been lobbying the Motion Picture Academy to follow suit.
It’s an effort that’s still ongoing. Crowe took time recently to talk to The Hollywood Reporter about the Guild’s origins, its relevance to an industry increasingly reliant on the use of music in all of its forms, and its goals going forward.
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