NOT many people find out they’re in the running for an award through the Hollywood Reporter, but Amelia Hartley did.

The television music executive has been shortlisted in the Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.

Miss Hartley was nominated for her work on season two of the gangster epic, Peaky Blinders, which starts Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and Sam Neill.

It aired on BBC Two in October.

She is the first Brit to be nominated for the prestigious award and will be up against Sky Atlantic’s The Blacklist as well as smash hits American Horror Story, Reign and Teen Wolf.

Miss Hartley said: “I am beyond thrilled to be nominated.

“I think I amthe first UK music supervisor to be nominated, so that is very special to me.

“I found out through Variety magazine and the Hollywood Reporter that I was on the shortlist, so that was a bit different.”

But the modest 42-year-old from Lexden – who now lives in London – said she is not expecting to win the award and has pointed to the success of American Horror Story in the US market, where the votes will come from.

She added: “I will certainly be keeping my fingers crossed, but I think American Horror Story will take it.

“People are always talking about the music on it and rightly so.”

British-made Peaky Blinders has taken America by storm since it was released through Netflix last year.

The former Colchester County High School for Girls pupil’s job is to decide which songs fit with scenes for a TV show, agree on a price with the artist and make sure the music is used legally.

Over the past 15 years with production companies Endemol and Tiger Aspect, Miss Hartley has worked on thousands of shows, but perhaps the most complex is Big Brother, on which housemates constantly sing, which means she is on call 24-hours-aday.

It means she must be contacted during filming when anymusic is sung to make sure it is clear to be broadcast.

If it is not, the scene does not make the broadcast shows.

More recently, she was behind the music to Sky Atlantic’s Fortitude and the Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror Christmas special, aired on Channel 4.

Miss Hartley is due to fly to Los Angeles for the awards ceremony, which will be held in Hollywood next Wednesday.