This year, Music Supervisors finally received recognition at the Television Academy: For the first time in history, a category for “Music Supervision” is included at the Emmy Awards and the nominees were honoured earlier this week.

The nominees in the category Music Supervision are:

In a recent Podcast, Deadline spoke with music supervisor Thomas Golubic (Six Feet Under, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) about the important role music supervisors play in the making of a film and about his work on Better Call Saul in particular.

Listen to Deadline’s Crew Call Podcast below:

As Thomas Golubic mentions, Michael A. Levine and Ricky Minor were mainly responsible for the Television Academy even considering to include music supervisors as members of their music branch. Here are some other general key takeaways from the podcast: