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 |
Last awarded | 2018 |
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. Through the years it's been awarded, since 1988, it has gone through several 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
The award goes to the composer(s) of the winning song, not to the performing artist(s) (except if the artist is also the composer).
Alan Menken has the most wins (5 times winner). After only James Horner, Howard Ashman and T Bone Burnett have multiple wins (2 each). Diane Warren have the most nomination with 10, followed by Alan Menken with 9, Babyface with 7, James Horner and T Bone Burnett with 4 each, Madonna, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Michael Kamen with 3 each (all of them won at least one Grammy). Sting is the most nominated artist without wins (was nominated also 3 times). Stephen Sondheim, Elton John, Elvis Costello and U2 were nominated 2 times without winning. Babyface was the artist with more nomimations in a single year with 3 nominations in 1997 but failed to win the award that year.
Recipients
- ^[I] Each year is linked to the article about the Grammy Awards held that year.
- ^[II] "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written by Jessi Alexander and Jon Mabe and featured in Hannah Montana: The Movie, was originally nominated but was withdrawn by Walt Disney Records because it had not been written specifically for a film as the category's eligibility rules require. NARAS released a statement thanking Disney for its honesty and announcing that "The Climb" had been replaced by "All Is Love", with the fifth highest initial votes.[32]
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