Biography

Will is a multi-award winning music supervisor with over 15 years experience in the film industry. After starting out in music video and film production at Jonathan Glazer’s company, Academy, he then began a prestigious career in supervision in theatrical marketing in London becoming Europe's foremost trailer music supervisor at Empire Design. Over 10 years, he worked consistently on hundreds of major worldwide trailer campaigns for clients including Warner Bros, Universal and StudioCanal providing original music creative for films such as Prometheus, Paddington and The Lobster. This led to him winning Best Music Supervisor (Film) at the Music Week Sync Awards 2015.

In 2017 Will was offered a position at creative agency Mob Scene in Los Angeles as senior theatrical supervisor working for clients including Sony, Fox and Disney. Will then joined acclaimed film marketing agency GrandSon as Director of music. During his three years he worked on a multitude of prestigious award-winning creative projects, soundtracking campaigns such as Roma, Downton Abbey, Uncut Gems, Euphoria, Moonlight, Atlanta and The Green Knight. In 2021 he won a Golden Trailer award for Best music for Netflix's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and a Music & Sound Award for Apple+’s Oscar winning CODA as well as three Clio trailer music awards for A24 titles, Uncut Gems, Waves and Zola.

In tandem with trailer supervision, Will was invited by Matthew Vaughn to bring his music creative skills to his breakout 2010 action comedy feature Kick-Ass. This launched Will’s feature supervision career and he continued to supervise further films including Kick-Ass 2 and Adam Randall’s acclaimed indie horror, I See You, which debuted at SXSW 2019.

2022 saw Will return to London joining Redfive as senior music supervisor. He is a member of the European Guild of Music Supervisors and manages alt folk vocal four piece, TRILLS.

Award wins include:

2015 Music and Sound Award - Winner for Best Original composition in a trailer for 'The Theory Of Everything' trailer.

2015 Music Week Sync Award Winner - Best Music Supervisor (Film).

2016 Music and Sound Award for Best Original composition in a trailer Winner for 'Suffragette' UK trailer.

2016 Golden Trailer Award for Best Foreign Independent trailer Winner for 'Macbeth' UK trailer

2016 Music Week Sync Award - Best Music sync in a trailer Winner for 'High-Rise' teaser trailer.

2017 Music Week Sync Award - Best Music sync in a trailer Winner for 'The Handmaiden' trailer.

2017 Golden Trailer Award for Best Foreign music trailer Winner for 'Raw' Red Band trailer.

2019 Music and Sound Award - Best Re-record or Adaptation in a trailer Winner for 'Mid-90s' trailer.

2019 Nominated for US Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Best Sync in a trailer for 'When They See Us' trailer.

2020 Music and Sound Award - Best Re-Record or Adaptation in a trailer Winner for 'Uncut Gems' trailer.

2021 Golden Trailer Award - Best music Winner for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom trailer.

2021 Music and Sound Award - Winner for Best Re-record or Adaptation in a trailer for CODA trailer.

2021 Clio Award - Bronze winner for Best music for Uncut Gems trailer.

2021 Clio Award - Bronze winner for Best music for Waves trailer.

2021 Clio Award - Bronze winner for Best music for Zola trailer.

2022 Nominated for US Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Best Sync in a trailer for CODA trailer.

2022 Golden Trailer Award - Best music Winner for CODA trailer.

2022 Clio Award - Bronze winner for Best music for House of The Dragon trailer.

2022 Clio Award - Silver winner for Best music for Atlanta trailer. 

2023 Nominated for US Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Best Music supervision in a trailer (Series) for Atlanta trailer. 

2023 Nominated for Golden Trailer Award for Best Fantasy Adventure Streaming Trailer for House of The Dragon trailer.

A small selection of his work can be seen here.