Buma Music in Motion Awards 2020

The Corona crisis did not stop the jury from looking for the most successful composers of music in media, for the digital edition of BMIM 2020. Look back at the nominees and winners of BMIM Awards 2020.

Celebrating the best music in films, games, podcasts, radio, documentaries, advertising and television.

The Buma Music in Media Awards are the awards for composers and producers who have proven themselves in the previous year with their compositions for or use of music in media. The music composers and producers nominated in twelve categories, which were recently announced, have been assessed by the expert jury of 25 members.

Buma Music In Media New Talent Award for composer

Daan Hofman

Composer

Winner of BMIM New Talent Award in the BMIM Awards 2020 for Danny and the Wild Bunch. More about Daan Hofman Daan Hofman is a multi-award-winning film composer and songwriter, born and based in Amsterdam. He studied theatre in Utrecht and music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote 2 albums and

The nominated music composers and producers are by an expert 25-member jury selected, including composer Bob Zimmerman, Buma Oeuvre Award Multimedia winner Stephen Emmer, film producer Kaja Wolffers, actor and director Jon Karthaus, NRC journalist Joyce Roodnat, editor-in-chief of Ad formation Susanne van Nierop, and last year’s BMIM New Talent winner, Gijs Knol.

Truly Amazing winners from the 2020 awards

Best Podcast, Radio- en Television imaging

Ward Henselmans, Daan Jansen en Jeroen Kuitenbrouwer

Close Up – 25 jaar

Best Original Composition in Documentary, Short Film, Television film and Animation

Alex Simu

They Call Me Babu

Best Sync (in Television, Film, Online)

Ramses Shaffy (uitvoering Maaike Ouboter)

Netflix promo for serie “Our Planet” – ‘Zing – Vecht – Huil – Bid – Lach – Werk en Bewonder’

Best Original Composition in Television Series

Merlijn Snitker

De 12 van Schouwendam

Best Original Composition in Trailers

Reinder van Zalk

Terreur

Best Original Composition in Advertising (collab with Adformatie)

Sizzer & DeWolff

Skoda – Live Like You

Best Sync in Advertisment (collab with Adformatie)

Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash, Adidja Palmer, Wesley Pentz, David Taylor, Nick van de Wall (Afrojack) voor DNB

Girls Invest – ‘Run the World (Girls)’

Best Original Composition in Film

Componist Vincent van Warmerdam

ROJO

BMIM New Talent Award

Daan Hofman

Danny and the Wild Bunch

Big round of applause for our nominees

On the basis of 8 different categories, the 25-member jury looked at the best music for film, television, radio, documentary and advertising. There are three nominations in each category. Check out the nominees of BMIM Awards 2020.