2015 International Music + Sound Awards: Call For Entries (Deadline Extended!)

Get your entries in now to the 3rd annual International Music+Sound Awards! Started in 2011, this recent programme celebrates music and sound design in the media. Past winners include Pusher Music and Switch Music Group.

Award winning categories include ‘Best original composition’, ‘Best sync / use of existing music’, ‘Re-records + adaptations’, and ‘Best sound design’, with various sub-categories. 

UPDATE – The entry deadline has been extended by two weeks to midnight (GMT), Friday 10th April, due to overwhelming levels of demand.


The third International Music+Sound Awards, the only global awards ceremony to focus on music and sound design in the media, are now open for entries.

Trailer composers worldwide, are invited to become part of a music and sound celebration that provides a global platform for the enormous number of talented individuals in this arena to have their moment in the limelight.

The International Music+Sound Awards were formed to establish the criteria and standard for global excellence in music and sound for visual media, and to shine a light on those who create, source and commission it. They’re open to anyone involved in a trailer or film, TV show, commercial or game, broadcast or released between 31st October 2013 and 27th March 2015, where the music or sound design plays an essential role.

With past winners including Downton Abbey (Carnival Film+TV), Philomena (Switch Music Publishing) and Guinness (AMV BBDO) and jury members like industry authorities Klaus Badelt (composer: Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator), James Bond composer David Arnold, and Mary Ramos (Music Supervisor: Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained), the awards are now firmly established as an important competition in the international calendar.

Nick Payne, co-founder, comments, “the Awards continue to provide a stamp of approval from leading industry professionals across the disciplines they reward and offer the incredible wealth of talent out there much deserved exposure.  It’s a giant melting pot for the incredibly gifted professionals that provide music and sound design to the media industries on a global scale.”

More information can be found, and entries made herewww.masawards.com/international

Editor-in-chief. Music-loving writer, currently living in Paris.

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