Barbie, Spider-Man, Black Panther – visions of dolls and comic-book characters inevitably will probably be dancing within the heads of Grammy voters once they sit all the way down to nominate film music for this 12 months’s golden gramophones.
“Barbie: The Album” appears a shoo-in to compete for greatest compilation soundtrack, the class for films dominated by songs. However the Metro Boomin-curated album for the animated “Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse” additionally topped Billboard’s soundtrack chart this 12 months and appears more likely to swing into competitors.
On the same be aware, the third version of “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie impressed one other “Superior Combine” that was vastly in style and appears poised to hitch its two predecessors as a Grammy nominee. The “Quick X” album and Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid,” with its new songs by Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, may additionally make it onto the poll.
The Grammy eligibility 12 months all the time complicates issues for Recording Academy voters within the visible media classes, because it by no means parallels that of the Oscars. This 12 months, voters will think about soundtracks for films launched between October 2022 and September 2023.
Which means, for instance, that Rihanna’s track “Carry Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually,” a 2022 best-song Oscar nominee, will even be eligible for the track Grammy, because the movie wasn’t launched till Nov. 11; however the Oscar winner, the Telugu-language “Naatu Naatu,” isn’t Grammy eligible as its movie, “RRR,” was launched in March 2022 and thus certified final 12 months.
5 authentic songs from “Barbie” — these by Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Pink, Dua Lipa and Nicki Minaj — have been declared eligible in Grammy’s authentic track class, and at the very least two are more likely to wind up among the many remaining 5.
Within the authentic rating class, composer Ludwig Göransson, a possible nominee for this 12 months’s hit “Oppenheimer,” could also be competing in opposition to himself, as his “Wakanda Perpetually” can also be eligible. He might be up in opposition to Oscar winner Volker Bertelmann’s “All Quiet on the Western Entrance,” and two different Oscar nominees from late 2022 releases: Justin Hurwitz’s “Babylon” and John Williams’ “The Fabelmans.”
Williams might be a double nominee within the rating class, as his energetic music for this summer time’s blockbuster “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future” has been entered for Grammy consideration. The legendary composer already has 25 Grammys for his astounding file of classics from “Jaws” to “Star Wars” to “E.T.”
Tv initiatives more likely to move muster with Grammy voters might nicely embody two from Nicholas Britell – the “Star Wars” spinoff “Andor” and the concluding season of “Succession” – in addition to the songs from “Daisy Jones & The Six,” Siddhartha Khosla’s rating for “Solely Murders within the Constructing,” and the songs from the wacky “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” musical “Subspace Rhapsody.”
And in solely its second 12 months of existence, the “rating soundtrack for video video games and different interactive media” class is sure to be crammed with fan favorites. Bear McCreary’s “God of Conflict: Ragnarok” has already received the BAFTA for sport music and is a possible nominee.
“Star Wars: Jedi Survivor,” by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab, has been broadly ballyhooed, as has the first-ever interactive videogame musical, “Stray Gods,” by Austin Wintory, Jess Serro and Tripod.
Amongst different sport scores up for attainable Grammy nomination: Inon Zur’s “Starfield,” Borislav Slavov’s “Baldur’s Gate 3,” ” and the Harry Potter-inspired “Hogwarts Legacy” by Peter Murray, J. Scott Rakozy and Chuck E. Myers.
