Grammy Nominations for Movie People !
Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 9:00PM
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by Nathaniel R

The Grammy Awards aren’t really a crucial topic for The Film Experience. Except when they are. We do love to share the movie adjacent stuff that doesn’t get much press (‘hey, I didn’t know that actor ____ recorded a spoken word album’ etcetera). So herewith some key movie adjacent bits.

Beyonce’s efforts for The Lion King are up for a few pop prizes but that's no surprise since Queen B is a Grammy favourite. Former movie star and still legendary chanteuse Barbra Streisand, another Grammy favourite, has her presumably umpteenth nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her latest “Walls”... the one with the unexpected unintended Girl-in-the-pit Silence of the Lambs homage cover.  

But there are some less expected showings, too.

Iconic cult director John Waters is up for Best Spoken Word Album for “Mr Know-It-All” where he’s competing with Former First Lady Michelle Obama. That juxtaposition is insane and we couldn’t love it more...

Five time Oscar winner John Williams is up for  two Grammys for instrumental work with arrangements of previous Star Wars and Harry Potter tracks. And speaking of arrangement Grammys, two oft-covered Oscar winning songs “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz and “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany's have resulted in arrangement Grammy nominations for Jacob Collier and Vince Mendoza respectively. 

And here are the Grammy categories in full which relate to the showbiz world outside of music alone...

Best Comedy Album

Best Musical Theater Album


Competitive. And, look at that we actually reviewed every one of those shows. Among these nominees though we admit we’re rooting hard for Oklahoma!

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media


A fun batch of nominees but a year later our heart is totally still with A Star is Born. We’d be pleased with a Rocketman win, too. 

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media

Silvestri, Shaiman, Zimmer are previous Grammy winners though a win for either Djawadi or Guðnadóttir would be their first.

Best Song Written For Visual Media


Grammys are always a mix (eligibility wise) of two different Oscar years. None of these tracks were Oscar nominees last year though Spirit or The Ballad of a Lonesome Cowboy could theoretically be up for the Oscar this year in Best Original Song. 

Best Music Video

Best Music Film


And that’s that as far as movie connections go.

But we’d remiss if we didn’t leave you with the top four categories at the Grammy Awards, the ones that get roughly 95% of the attention. They are… 

Album Of The Year


Record Of The Year (often confused for song of the year)
This one goes to the artist rather than the songwriter.


Song Of The Year (often confused for record of the year)
This one goes to the songwriter rather than the artist -- in ye olden times the nominations for these two categories were often practically identical but this year at least they’re much different… the only repeat nominees are “Hard Place” and “Truth Hurts”


Best New Artist

My money is on Lizzo to be buried in Grammys on the big night but you never know. 

 

 

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