The nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards have been announced. The 2023 Grammys will take place on Sunday, February 5, from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and broadcast live on the CBS Television Network and stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Here are the nominations in the film music-related categories:
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Batman – Michael Giacchino
Encanto – Germaine Franco
No Time to Die – Hans Zimmer
The Power of the Dog – Jonny Greenwood
Succession: Season 3 – Nicholas Britell
Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media
Elvis
Encanto
Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4 (Vol 2)
Top Gun: Maverick (Harold Faltermeyer, Lady Gaga, Hans Zimmer & Lorne Balfe)
West Side Story
Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media
Be Alive [From King Richard]
Beyoncé & Darius Scott Dixson, songwriters (Beyoncé)
Carolina [From Where the Crawdads Sing]
Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
Hold My Hand [From Top Gun: Maverick]
Bloodpop & Stefani Germanotta, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
Keep Rising (The Woman King) [From The Woman King]
Angelique Kidjo, Jeremy Lutito & Jessy Wilson, songwriters (Jessy Wilson Featuring Angelique Kidjo)
Nobody Like U [From Turning Red]
Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (4*Town, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O’Connell, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo, Grayson Villanueva)
We Don’t Talk About Bruno [From Encanto]
Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Carolina Gaitán – La Gaita, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto – Cast)
In addition, Danny Elfman received a Grammy nomination for his main titles music from Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in the Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella category and Austin Wintory (Aliens: Fireteam Elite), Stephanie Economou (Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn Of Ragnarok), Bear McCreary (Call Of Duty: Vanguard), Richard Jacques (Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy) & Christopher Tin (Old World) are the first nominees in the new Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media category.
For the full list of nominations, visit Grammy.com.
I would’ve slotted out Top Gun: Maverick with Summer of Soul in Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Visual Media instead.
The Batman, Top Gun: Maverick, and We Don’t Talk About Bruno should win.