Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is the Grammy Award awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media. Through the years it's been awarded, since 1988, it has gone through several name changes:
History
- 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
Multiple winners and nominees
has the most wins. After him, Randy Newman has 3 wins whilst James Horner, Howard Ashman, T Bone Burnett and Lady Gaga have 2 wins each. Alan Menken and Lady Gaga are the only artists to win this category in consecutive years.Diane Warren has the most nominations with 10, followed by Alan Menken with 9, Babyface with 7, James Horner and T Bone Burnett with 4 each, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Michael Kamen with 3 each.
Sting and Beyoncé are the most nominated artists without wins. Stephen Sondheim, Elton John, Elvis Costello and U2 were nominated 2 times without winning.
Babyface was the artist with more nominations in a single year with 3 nominations in 1997 but failed to win the award that year. The 2018 version of A Star is Born is the first film to be nominated and win 2 years in a row.
Recipients
| Year | Songwriter | Film/Television | Work | Nominees | Ref. |
| 1988 | James Horner Barry Mann Cynthia Weil | An American Tail | "Somewhere Out There" | ||
| 1989 | Phil Collins Lamont Dozier | Buster | "Two Hearts" | ||
| 1990 | Carly Simon | Working Girl | "Let the River Run" | ||
| 1991 | Alan Menken Howard Ashman | The Little Mermaid | "Under the Sea" | ||
| 1992 | Robert John "Mutt" Lange Michael Kamen Bryan Adams | ' | " I Do It for You" | ||
| 1993 | Howard Ashman Alan Menken | Beauty and the Beast | "Beauty and the Beast" | ||
| 1994 | Alan Menken Tim Rice | Aladdin | "A Whole New World" | ||
| 1995 | Bruce Springsteen | Philadelphia | "Streets of Philadelphia" | ||
| 1996 | Alan Menken Stephen Schwartz | Pocahontas | "Colors of the Wind" | ||
| 1997 | Diane Warren | Up Close & Personal | "Because You Loved Me" | ||
| 1998 | R. Kelly | Space Jam | "I Believe I Can Fly" | ||
| 1999 | James Horner Will Jennings | Titanic | "My Heart Will Go On" | ||
| 2000 | Madonna William Orbit | ' | "Beautiful Stranger" | ||
| 2001 | Randy Newman | Toy Story 2 | "When She Loved Me" | ||
| 2002 | John Flansburgh John Linnell | Malcolm in the Middle | "Boss of Me" | ||
| 2003 | Randy Newman | Monsters, Inc. | "If I Didn't Have You" | ||
| 2004 | Christopher Guest Eugene Levy Michael McKean | A Mighty Wind | "A Mighty Wind" | ||
| 2005 | Annie Lennox Howard Shore Fran Walsh | "Into the West" | |||
| 2006 | Glen Ballard Alan Silvestri | The Polar Express | "Believe" | ||
| 2007 | Randy Newman | Cars | "Our Town" | ||
| 2008 | Siedah Garrett Henry Krieger | Dreamgirls | "Love You I Do" | ||
| 2009 | Peter Gabriel Thomas Newman | WALL-E | "Down to Earth" | ||
| 2010 | Gulzar A. R. Rahman Tanvi Shah | Slumdog Millionaire | "Jai Ho" | ||
| 2011 | Ryan Bingham T Bone Burnett | Crazy Heart | "The Weary Kind" | ||
| 2012 | Alan Menken Glenn Slater | Tangled | "I See the Light" | ||
| 2013 | T Bone Burnett Taylor Swift The Civil Wars | The Hunger Games | "Safe & Sound" | ||
| 2014 | Adele Paul Epworth | Skyfall | "Skyfall" | ||
| 2015 | Kristen Anderson-Lopez Robert Lopez | Frozen | "Let It Go" | ||
| 2016 | Common Che Smith John Legend | Selma | "Glory" | ||
| 2017 | Max Martin Shellback Justin Timberlake | Trolls | "Can't Stop the Feeling!" | ||
| 2018 | Lin-Manuel Miranda | Moana | "How Far I'll Go" | ||
| 2019 | Lady Gaga Mark Ronson Anthony Rossomando Andrew Wyatt | A Star Is Born | "Shallow" | ||
| 2020 | Lady Gaga Natalie Hemby Hillary Lindsey Aaron Raitiere | A Star Is Born | "I'll Never Love Again " |