Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media facts for kids

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:

History

• 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).

Multiple winners and nominees

Alan Menken has the most wins (five times). After him, Randy Newman has three wins whilst 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 with seven, James Horner and T Bone Burnett with four each, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Howard Ashman, 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, Elvis Costello and U2 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.

Images for kids

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  Two-time winner James Horner was the first recipient of the award alongside Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.

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  Phil Collins won in 1989 with Lamont Dozier.

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  1990 award-winner Carly Simon.

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  Five-time recipient Alan Menken was awarded for his work in numerous Disney films.

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  1995 award-winner Bruce Springsteen.

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  Eleven-time nominee and 1997 winner Diane Warren.

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  1995 winner and four-time nominee Stephen Schwartz.

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  Madonna won in 2000 with William Orbit.

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  Three-time winner and seven-time nominee, Randy Newman.

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  Annie Lennox won in 2005 alongside Howard Shore and Fran Walsh.

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  A. R. Rahman won in 2010 alongside Gulzar and Tanvi Shah.

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  T Bone Burnett received the award for 2011 and 2013.

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  The Civil Wars (Joy Williams (left) & John Paul White (right)) won in 2013 alongside T Bone Burnett and Taylor Swift.

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  Adele won in 2014 with Paul Epworth.

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  Husband and wife duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson Lopez won the award in 2015 and were nominated in 2019, 2021 and 2022.

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  Common won in 2016 with Rhymefest & John Legend.

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  Two-time winner Lady Gaga is the first female and one of the only two artists to receive the award in consecutive years.

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  Billie Eilish won in 2021 alongside her brother, Finneas O'Connell.

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Premio Grammy a la mejor canción escrita para medios visuales para niños