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

The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a special prize given out at the Grammy Awards. It celebrates amazing songs created just for movies, TV shows, video games, or other things you can watch. Imagine a song that makes a scene in a film even better – this award is for the talented people who write those songs! It has been given out every year since 1988.

What Is This Award For?

This award honors the person or people who wrote the winning song. It does not go to the singer or band who performed the song, unless they also helped write it. So, it's all about the songwriters and composers!

How the Award's Name Changed

The name of this Grammy Award has changed a few times since it started.

• 1988–1999: It was first called the "Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television."
• 2000–2011: Then, it became the "Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media."
• 2012–present: Today, it is known as the "Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media."

Who Has Won the Most?

Some songwriters have won this award many times!

• Alan Menken has won the most, with five awards. He is famous for writing songs for many Disney movies.
• Randy Newman has won three times.
• James Horner, Howard Ashman, T Bone Burnett, and Lady Gaga have each won two times.
• Alan Menken and Lady Gaga are the only artists to win this award two years in a row.

Who Has Been Nominated the Most?

Being nominated means your song was chosen as one of the best.

• Diane Warren has been nominated ten times, which is the most for any songwriter.
• Alan Menken has nine nominations.
• Babyface has seven nominations.
• Other artists with many nominations include James Horner, T Bone Burnett, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Michael Kamen, and Taylor Swift. All of them have won at least one Grammy.

Solo Winners

Six songwriters have won this award for a song they wrote all by themselves.

• The first person to win alone was Carly Simon in 1990.
• The most recent solo winner was Lin-Manuel Miranda in 2018.

Artists With Many Nominations But No Wins

Some talented artists have been nominated several times but have not yet won this specific award.

• Sting and Beyoncé have both been nominated three times without a win.
• Stephen Sondheim, Elton John, Elvis Costello, and U2 were nominated twice but did not win.

Interesting Facts About Nominations

• In 1997, Babyface received three nominations in a single year, which is a record. However, he did not win that year.
• The movie A Star Is Born (from 2018) is the first film to have songs nominated and win this award two years in a row.

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  Two-time winner James Horner was one of the first people to receive this award.

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  Phil Collins won in 1989 with Lamont Dozier.

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  Carly Simon won the award in 1990.

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  Alan Menken has won five times for his work on Disney films.

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  Bruce Springsteen won the award in 1995.

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  Diane Warren has been nominated eleven times and won in 1997.

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  Stephen Schwartz won in 1995 and has been nominated four times.

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  Madonna won in 2000 with William Orbit.

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  Randy Newman has won three times and been nominated seven times.

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

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

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  T Bone Burnett received the award in 2011 and 2013.

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

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  Adele won in 2014 with Paul Epworth.

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  Husband and wife, Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson Lopez, won in 2015 and were nominated several other times.

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  Common won in 2016 with Rhymefest & John Legend.

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  Lady Gaga has won twice and is one of only two artists to win 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