The nominations for the 55th Grammy Awards have been announced. Here are the nominations in the film/TV music related categories, which also include the first nominated video game score in the history of the awards:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
- The Adventures of Tintin (John Williams) – Sony Classical
- The Artist (Ludovic Bource) – Sony Classical
- The Dark Knight Rises (Hans Zimmer) – WaterTower Music
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) – Null/Madison Gate
- Hugo (Howard Shore) – Howe Records
- Journey (Austin Wintory) – Sony Computer Entertainment America
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media
- The Descendants (Various Artists) – Sony Classical
- Marley (Bob Marley & The Wallers) – UMe/Island/TuffTong
- Midnight in Paris (Various Artists) – Madison Gate Records
- The Muppets (Various Artists) – Walt Disney Records
- Rock of Ages (Various Artists) – WaterTower Music
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
- Abraham’s Daughter (From The Hunger Games) – T Bone Burnett, Win Butler & Régine Chassagne, songwriters (Arcade Fire) [Universal Republic; Publishers: Régine Chassagne, Absurd Music, Win Butler, Henry Burnett Music, Baffle Music]
- Learn Me Right (From Brave) – Mumford & Sons, songwriters (Birdy & Mumford & Sons) [Walt Disney Records/Pixar; Publisher: Pixar Talking Pictures]
- Let Me Be Your Star (From Smash) – Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, songwriters (Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) [Columbia; Publishers: Winding Brook Way Music, Walli Woo Entertainment]
- Man or Muppet (From The Muppets) – Bret McKenzie, songwriter (Jason Segel & Walter) [Walt Disney; Publisher: Fuzzy Muppet Songs]
- Safe & Sound (From The Hunger Games) – T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, John Paul White & Joy Williams, songwriters (Taylor Swift Featuring The Civil Wars) [Big Machine Records/Universal Republic; Publishers: Sony ATV Tree Publishing, Taylor Swift Music, Sensibility Songs, Absurd Music, Shiny Happy Music, Baffle Music, Henry Burnett Music]
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 10, 2013, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. For a full list of nominations, visit Grammy.com.
As I expected, awards shows overlooking truly brilliant film scores for ones that are popular. The Dark Knight Rises doesn’t deserve a nomination, it’s James Horner’s Spider-Man that really deserves it. And The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo wasn’t nearly as good as Snow White and the Huntsman.
Most of Grammy nominees are always scores for movies released 18 months ago. I agree, Spider-Man should have been instead of TDKR.
Big fan of Zimmer, but this time Howard Shore deserves to win. His music for Hugo was amazing.