Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (including its previous names) is the Grammy Awards awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media.
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media | |
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Awarded for | Quality film/television songs |
Country | United States |
Presented by | National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |
First awarded | 1988 ("Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail) |
Currently held by | Lin-Manuel Miranda, "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto (2023) |
Website | grammy.com |
Recipients

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

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 and is the first person to win this category for consecutive years.

1995 award-winner Bruce Springsteen.

Eleven-time nominee and 1997 winner Diane Warren.
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1996 winner and four-time nominee Stephen Schwartz.

Madonna won in 2000 with William Orbit.
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Three-time winner and seven-time nominee, Randy Newman.



T Bone Burnett received the award for 2011 and 2013.

Taylor Swift won in 2013 alongside The Civil Wars and T Bone Burnett.

Adele won in 2014 with Paul Epworth.

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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Two-time winner Lady Gaga is the first woman to receive the award in consecutive years and the only person to win this category multiple times for the same media soundtrack.
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Billie Eilish won in 2021 alongside her brother, Finneas O'Connell.
Superlatives
The following nominees have earned at least two wins and nominations:
Nominations
Multiple wins
Wins | Songwriter |
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5 | |
Alan Menken | |
3 | |
Randy Newman | |
2 | |
Howard Ashman | |
T Bone Burnett | |
Lady Gaga | |
James Horner | |
Lin-Manuel Miranda |
Name changes
- 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
Notes
- "The Climb", written by Jessi Alexander and Jon Mabe, and featured in Hannah Montana: The Movie, was originally nominated but was withdrawn by Walt Disney Records because it had not been written specifically for a film as the category's eligibility rules require. NARAS released a statement thanking Disney for its honesty and announcing that "The Climb" had been replaced by "All Is Love", with the fifth highest initial votes.[24]
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