Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
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

Year[I] Songwriter(s) Film/Television Work Nominees Ref.
1988 James Horner
Barry Mann
Cynthia Weil		 An American Tail "Somewhere Out There"

[1]
1989 Phil Collins
Lamont Dozier		 Buster "Two Hearts"

[2]
1990 Carly Simon Working Girl "Let the River Run"

[3]
1991 Alan Menken
Howard Ashman		 The Little Mermaid "Under the Sea"

[4]
1992 Robert John Lange
Michael Kamen
Bryan Adams		 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

[5]
1993 Howard Ashman
Alan Menken		 Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast"

[6]
1994 Alan Menken
Tim Rice		 Aladdin "A Whole New World"

[7]
1995 Bruce Springsteen Philadelphia "Streets of Philadelphia"

[8]
1996 Alan Menken
Stephen Schwartz		 Pocahontas "Colors of the Wind"

[9]
1997 Diane Warren Up Close & Personal "Because You Loved Me"

[10]
1998 R. Kelly Space Jam "I Believe I Can Fly"

[11]
1999 James Horner
Will Jennings		 Titanic "My Heart Will Go On"

[12]
2000 Madonna
William Orbit		 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me "Beautiful Stranger"

[13]
2001 Randy Newman Toy Story 2 "When She Loved Me"

[14]
2002 John Flansburgh
John Linnell		 Malcolm in the Middle "Boss of Me"

[15]
2003 Randy Newman Monsters, Inc. "If I Didn't Have You"

[16]
2004 Christopher Guest
Eugene Levy
Michael McKean		 A Mighty Wind "A Mighty Wind"

[17]
2005 Annie Lennox
Howard Shore
Fran Walsh		 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King "Into the West"

[18]
2006 Glen Ballard
Alan Silvestri		 The Polar Express "Believe"

[19]
2007 Randy Newman Cars "Our Town"

[20]
2008 Siedah Garrett
Henry Krieger		 Dreamgirls "Love You I Do"

[21]
2009 Peter Gabriel
Thomas Newman		 WALL-E "Down to Earth"

[22]
2010[II] Gulzar
A. R. Rahman
Tanvi Shah		 Slumdog Millionaire "Jai Ho"

[23]
2011 Ryan Bingham
T Bone Burnett		 Crazy Heart "The Weary Kind"

[24]
2012 Alan Menken
Glenn Slater		 Tangled "I See the Light"

[25]
2013 T Bone Burnett
Taylor Swift
The Civil Wars		 The Hunger Games "Safe & Sound"

[26]
2014 Adele
Paul Epworth		 Skyfall "Skyfall"

[27]
2015 Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Robert Lopez		 Frozen "Let It Go"

[28]
2016 Common
Che Smith
John Legend		 Selma "Glory"

[29]
2017 Max Martin
Shellback
Justin Timberlake		 Trolls "Can't Stop the Feeling!"

[30]
2018 Lin-Manuel Miranda Moana "How Far I'll Go"

[31]
  • ^[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]

References

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  5. ↑ Snider, Eric (February 26, 1992). "Cole's 'Unforgettable' wins song of the year". St. Petersburg Times. Times Publishing Company. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  6. ↑ Antczak, John (January 8, 1993). "Clapton leads the pack of Grammy nominees". Deseret News. Deseret News Publishing Company. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
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  20. ↑ "49th Annual Grammy Awards Winners List". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on December 20, 2006. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
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  22. ↑ "Grammy 2009 Winners List". MTV. February 8, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
  23. ↑ "52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: General Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  24. ↑ "53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: General Field". The Recording Academy. Retrieved December 10, 2011.
  25. ↑ "2011 – 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees And Winners: General Field". The Recording Academy. November 30, 2011.
  26. ↑ "Dan Auerbach, Fun, Jay-Z, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Kanye West Lead 55th GRAMMY Nominations".
  27. ↑ "Jay Z Tops 56th GRAMMY Nominations With Nine". GRAMMY.com. November 6, 2013.
  28. ↑ Grammy.com
  29. ↑ "Grammy Awards 2016: Kendrick Lamar made history with an unapologetically black album". Los Angeles Times. December 7, 2015. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  30. ↑ "2017 Nominees". The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on February 1, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
  31. ↑ "60th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees". GRAMMY.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  32. ↑ Pastorek, Whitney (December 10, 2009). "Miley Cyrus song disqualified from Grammy noms, Karen O called up to replace her". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
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