The shortlists for the Music Producers Guild 2017 Awards

16 November 2016 - Press release

The shortlists for each of the MPG 2017 Awards categories are as follows:

UK Producer Of The Year

• Paul Epworth

• Nigel Godrich

• Fraser T. Smith

 

International Producer Of The Year, sponsored by Prism Sound

• Josh Homme

• Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee

• Tony Visconti

 

Breakthrough Producer Of The Year, sponsored by Novation

• Brett Cox

• Andrew Hunt

• Joel Laslett Pott

 

Self Producing Artist of the Year, sponsored by Spitfire Audio

•James Blake

• Jeff Lynne

• Tarek Musa (Spring King)

 

Recording Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by AMS Neve

• Guy Massey

• Mark Rankin

• Richard Woodcraft

 

Breakthrough Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Genelec

• Manon Grandjean

• Andrew Hunt

• Jack Ruston

 

Mix Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Solid State Logic

• Tom Elmhirst

• Mark ‘Spike’ Stent

• Cenzo Townshend

 

Mastering Engineer Of The Year, sponsored by Prism Sound

• John Davis

• Barry Grint

• Mandy Parnell

 

Re-Mixer of the Year

• Disclosure (Howard & Guy Lawrence)

• Matthew Herbert

• Wideboys

 

UK Album Of The Year

• Black Star – David Bowie

• Love and Hate – Michael Kiwanuka

• A Moon Shaped Pool – Radiohead

 

UK Single Song Release Of The Year, sponsored by Shure

• This Is What Your Came For – Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna

• Burn The Witch – Radiohead

• Pillowtalk – ZAYN

 

Studio Of The Year

• Abbey Road Studios

• British Grove Studios

• RAK Studios

 

The A&R Award

• Toby L & Tim Dellow (Transgressive Records)

• Bart McDonagh (Domino Records)

• Nigel Reeve (Warner Music International)

 

The winner of the Outstanding Contribution to UK Music Award, sponsored by PPL, is yet to be announced, while the MPG Inspiration Award and the Special Recognition Award will be announced at the ceremony in February.