Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media | |
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Awarded for | quality film/television songs |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1988 ("Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail) |
Currently held by | Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, "No Time To Die" from No Time To Die (2021) |
Website | grammy.com |
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (including its previous names) is the Grammy Award awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media. The award goes to the composer(s) of the winning song, not to the performing artist(s), unless the artist is also the composer. Through the years it has been awarded, since 1988, it has gone through several name changes.
Multiple winners and nominees[]
Alan Menken has the most wins (five times). After him, Randy Newman has three wins while James Horner, Howard Ashman, T Bone Burnett and Lady Gaga have two wins each. Alan Menken and Lady Gaga are the only artists to win this category in consecutive years.
Diane Warren has the most nominations with ten, followed by Alan Menken with nine, Babyface and Randy Newman with seven, James Horner, T Bone Burnett, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez, Howard Ashman and Stephen Schwartz with four each, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Tim Rice, Michael Kamen and Taylor Swift with three each (all of them won at least one Grammy).
To date, six songwriters have received the award for a solo composition, with the first being Carly Simon in 1990 and most recent being Lin-Manuel Miranda in 2018.
Sting and Beyoncé are the most nominated artists without wins (nominated three times). Stephen Sondheim, Elton John, U2, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Eric Clapton were nominated two times without winning. Babyface was the artist with more nominations in a single year with 3 nominations in 1997 but failed to win the award that year. The 2018 film A Star Is Born is the first to be nominated and win two years in a row.
Recipients[]
1980s[]
Year[I] | Recipient(s) | Work (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Nominees (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
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1988 | James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil | "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail · (Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram) |
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[1] |
1989 | Phil Collins & Lamont Dozier | "Two Hearts" from Buster · (Phil Collins) |
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[2] |
1990s[]
Year[I] | Recipient(s) | Work (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Nominees (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Ref. |
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1990 | Carly Simon | "Let the River Run" from Working Girl · (Carly Simon) |
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[3] |
1991 | Alan Menken & Howard Ashman | "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid · (Various artists) |
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[4] |
1992 | Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams | "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves · (Bryan Adams) |
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[5] |
1993 | Howard Ashman & Alan Menken | "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast · (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson) |
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[6] |
1994 | Alan Menken & Tim Rice | "A Whole New World" from Aladdin · (Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle) |
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[7] |
1995 | Bruce Springsteen | "Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia · (Bruce Springsteen) |
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[8] |
1996 | Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz | "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas · (Vanessa Williams and Judy Kuhn) |
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[9] |
1997 | Diane Warren | "Because You Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal · (Celine Dion) |
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[10] |
1998 | R. Kelly | "I Believe I Can Fly" from Space Jam · (R. Kelly) |
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[11] |
1999 | James Horner & Will Jennings | "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic · (Celine Dion) |
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[12] |
2000s[]
Year[I] | Recipient(s) | Work (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Nominees (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Ref. |
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2000 | Madonna & William Orbit | "Beautiful Stranger" from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me · (Madonna) |
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[13] |
2001 | Randy Newman | "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 · (Sarah McLachlan) |
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[14] |
2002 | John Flansburgh & John Linnell | "Boss of Me" from Malcolm in the Middle · (They Might Be Giants) |
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[15] |
2003 | Randy Newman | "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. · (Randy Newman) |
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[16] |
2004 | Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean | "A Mighty Wind" from A Mighty Wind · (The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers) |
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[17] |
2005 | Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh | "Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · (Annie Lennox) |
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[18] |
2006 | Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri | "Believe" from The Polar Express · (Josh Groban) |
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[19] |
2007 | Randy Newman | "Our Town" from Cars · (James Taylor) |
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[20] |
2008 | Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger | "Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls · (Jennifer Hudson) |
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[21] |
2009 | Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman | "Down to Earth" from WALL-E · (Peter Gabriel) |
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[22] |
2010s[]
Year[I] | Recipient(s) | Work (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Nominees (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Ref. |
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2010 [a] |
Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah | "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire · (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash) |
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[24] |
2011 | Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett | "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart · (Ryan Bingham) |
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[25] |
2012 | Alan Menken & Glenn Slater | "I See the Light" from Tangled · (Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi) |
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[26] |
2013 | T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White | "Safe & Sound" from The Hunger Games · (Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars) |
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[27] |
2014 | Adele Atkins & Paul Epworth | "Skyfall" from Skyfall · (Adele) |
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2015 | Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez | "Let It Go" from Frozen · (Idina Menzel) |
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2016 | Common, Che Smith & John Legend | "Glory" from Selma · (Common and John Legend) |
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2017 | Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake | "Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls · (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar) |
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2018 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | "How Far I'll Go" from Moana · (Auli'i Cravalho) |
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2019 | Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt | "Shallow" from A Star Is Born · (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) |
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2020s[]
Year[I] | Recipient(s) | Work (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Nominees (Performer(s) in parenthesis)[II] |
Ref. |
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2020 | Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere | "I'll Never Love Again" from A Star Is Born · (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) |
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2021 | Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell | "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die · (Billie Eilish) |
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2022 | Winner TBA on 3 April 2022 | Winner TBA on 3 April 2022 |
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- ^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
- ^[II] The performing artist is only listed but does not receive the award.
Superlatives[]
Nominations
- Alan Menken - 10 Nominations
- Diane Warren - 8 Nominations
- Randy Newman - 7 Nominations
Wins
- Alan Menken - 5 Wins
- Randy Newman - 3 Wins
- Lady Gaga - 2 Wins
- James Horner - 2 Wins
Name changes[]
- 1988–1999: The Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television
- 2000–2011: The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
- 2012–present: The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
Notes[]
- ^ "The Climb", written by Jessi Alexander and Jon Mabe and featured in Hannah Montana: The Movie, was originally nominated but was withdrawn by Walt Disney Records because it had not been written specifically for a film as the category's eligibility rules require. NARAS released a statement thanking Disney for its honesty and announcing that "The Climb" had been replaced by "All Is Love", with the fifth highest initial votes.[23]
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