The 2023 MUSICOMICS nominations - Romics Music Award for Images
The second edition of Musicomics - Romics Award for Music for Images, sponsored by SIAE and Nuovo IMAIE, will take place on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 3 pm at Pad.8 - Sala Grandi Eventi e Proiezioni . On this occasion will be awarded special awards dedicated to professionals of "music for images" with a specific focus on music for animation, videogames, cinema and genre television seriality.
The Musicomics Awards are awarded to Italian authors and performers and to works totally or partially produced in Italy between January 2022 and May 2023.
The Honorary Jury President is Maestro Vince Tempera, composer, conductor, keyboardist and arranger; the MUSICOMICS Prize sees the Creative Direction of Mirko Fabbreschi, composer, musician, television author, teacher and writer.
All the nominated works follow, chosen thanks to the synergistic work of specific Juries composed of high-profile professionals in the field of music for images:
CATEGORIA: MIGLIOR COLONNA SONORA
• Dampyr di Lorenzo Tomio
• Denti da squalo di Michele Braga e Gabriele Mainetti
• Me contro Te, Missione Giungla di Matteo Curallo
• The land of dream di Fabrizio Mancinelli
• La California di Silvia Leonetti
CATEGORIA: MIGLIOR COLONNA SONORA VIDEOGIOCO
• Redout 2 di Leonardo Mazzella
• Soulstice di Francesco Libralon e Lorenzo Scagnolari
• The Rude Awakening di Davide Cappello
• Moth Lake di Plum Juice
• The Darkest Tale di Mattia Franceschini e Michele Postpischl
CATEGORIA: MIGLIOR CANZONE
• La Canzone di Ursula (dal film La Sirenetta) – edizione italiana a cura di Disney Character Voices International Inc.
• Sei in un paese meraviglioso (sigla della serie Questo mondo non mi renderà cattivo) – prodotto da Woodworm Publishing SRL
• Ciao babbo (dal film Pinocchio di Guillermo Del Toro) – edizione italiana a cura di Iyuno/SDI Group
• Scintilla di vita ft. Frankie Stein (brano della serie Monster High) – edizione italiana a cura di D-HUB Studios
• Cinque minuti di te (sigla della serie Wanna) – prodotto da Santeria Records
CATEGORIA: MIGLIOR DOPPIAGGIO MUSICALE
• Mulligan (Netflix) edizione italiana a cura di VSI Italia
• La sirenetta live action edizione italiana a cura di Disney Character Voices International Inc.
• Schmicago (Schmigadoon stagione 2) edizione italiana a cura di Dubbing Brothers Int. Italia
• Big Nate edizione italiana a cura di D-HUB Studios
• Human Resources edizione italiana a cura di CDC Sefit Group
CATEGORIA: MIGLIOR INTERPRETE CINE-TV
• Davide Tatoli per la canzone Mai mi legherai tratta dal film Pinocchio (live action)
• Fabrizio Vidale per la canzone Peaches tratta dal film Super Mario
• Simona Patitucci per la canzone La Canzone di Ursula tratta dal film La Sirenetta
• Luigi Strangis per la canzone Ci siamo fatti prendere la mano tratta dal film Il talento di Mr. Crocodile
• Gabriella Scalise per la canzone My house tratta dal film Matilda The Musical
MUSICOMICS Romics Music for Images in collaboration with the Association Composers Music for Film (ACMF) will award the Special Prize for foreign productions to Daniel Pemberton British composer who has realized, among many, the soundtrack of Spider-Man - A new universe.
Thanks to a specific jury of journalists and music operators the singer-songwriter Luigi Lopez will be awarded the Critics' Prize Andrea Lo Vecchio. The musicians Riccardo Zara and Douglas Meakin will be awarded the Luigi Albertelli Lifetime Achievement Award. Both the award in memory of the singer-songwriter and TV author Andrea Lo Vecchio and the one dedicated to the memory of the lyricist Luigi Albertelli are assigned by the Direction of MUSICOMICS in synergy with their families.
New IMAIE will award two awards.
For the category Best musical interpretation for a TV theme song are nominated:
• Matteo Paolillo for "O mar for" theme of the series Mare Fuori (Rai2)
• Giancane for "You’re in a wonderful country" acronym of This world won’t make me bad (Netflix)
• Andrea Sannino and Franco Ricciardi for "Un giorno eccezionale" Sunday theme song In (Rai1)
For the category Best Dubbing Performance for Movies or Music Series are nominated:
• Fabrizio Vidale for Super Mario
• Manuel Meli for Mulligan: America after the war of the worlds
• Mahmood, Yana_C, and Simona Patitucci for The Little Mermaid - Live Action
In the context of Musicomics, SIAE will award the Best Soundtrack Award for an Italian Film/Animation Series. They are nominated:
• Giancane for This world won’t make me bad" (Netflix)
• Emanuele Frusi for Billie’s Magic World (Minerva Pictures)
• Tommaso Fabi for "meteoheroes - season 2 (Cartoonito / Boomerang)
The official awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 7 October 2023 in Romics from 15.00, at the Pala Romics - Sala Grandi Eventi e Proiezioni. The event will be hosted by Marcello Cirillo, a well-known musician, television presenter, theatre actor and Italian theatre director.
The event is organized in collaboration with the media partners:
ACMF (Associazione Compositori Musiche da Film), All Music Italia, Animeclick, Dj Osso Radio, Radio Elettrica, Soundtrack City, Colonnesonore.Net, Radio Cusano, Radio Animati.