‘Encanto’ Dominates Grammy Visible-Media Nominations

Who’s nonetheless speaking about Bruno? Grammy voters, as “Encanto” and its well-liked music “We Don’t Speak About Bruno” had been nominated in three of the 4 Music for Visible Media classes throughout Tuesday’s announcement of nominees for the sixty fifth annual Grammy Awards.

Grammy’s offbeat eligibility interval (which started Oct. 1, 2021) ensured the Disney animated movie a spot on this 12 months’s awards, although Oscar nominated it (for rating and a distinct music) for 2021 honors. “Encanto” is Grammy-nominated for compilation soundtrack, for Germaine Franco’s rating, and for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Bruno” music.

“Bruno,” nonetheless, faces stiff competitors, as 4 of the 5 different nominees within the best-song class are for more moderen 2022 releases, together with some fairly high-powered artists: Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” from “The place the Crawdads Sing,” Woman Gaga’s “Maintain My Hand” from “Prime Gun: Maverick,” Jessy Wilson and Angelique Kidjo’s “Preserve Rising” from “The Lady King” and Billie Eilish and Finneas’s “No person Like U” from Disney-Pixar’s animated “Turning Pink.”

Beyoncé’s “Be Alive,” from one other 2021 movie, “King Richard,” can be nominated within the music class.

Three of the 5 rating soundtrack nominees are additionally from final 12 months’s films. Along with “Encanto,” Hans Zimmer’s “No Time to Die” rating and Jonny Greenwood’s “The Energy of the Canine” had been cited by Grammy voters, in addition to the season 3 album for TV’s “Succession” by Nicholas Britell. The only real 2022 movie launch within the rating class is Michael Giacchino’s “The Batman.”

Equally, the compilation-soundtrack class is a mixture of outdated and new. This 12 months’s soundtracks from “Elvis” (numerous artists) and “Prime Gun: Maverick” (credited to Harold Faltermeyer, Woman Gaga, Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe) face off in opposition to final 12 months’s “West Aspect Story” album and a TV soundtrack, Quantity 2 of the season 4 “Stranger Issues” sequence from Netflix.

Essentially the most intriguing of this 12 months’s Visible Media discipline bulletins is the inaugural “rating soundtrack for video video games and different interactive media” class. After years of being principally shunned by Grammy voters, the Recording Academy lastly gave online game composers their very own class.

This 12 months’s nominees embrace a number of acquainted names: Austin Wintory for “Aliens: Fireteam Elite,” Bear McCreary’s “Name of Responsibility: Vanguard” and Christopher Tin’s “Outdated World.” Wintory beforehand held the excellence of being the composer of the one recreation rating ever nominated by the Grammys (“Journey”) and Tin gained for arranging a monitor from a recreation rating (“Baba Yetu” from “Civilization IV”). McCreary is finest recognized for his TV music, together with the present “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy” sequence.

Rising star Stephanie Economou (TV’s “Jupiter’s Legacy”) was nominated for her music for “Murderer’s Creed Valhalla: Daybreak of Ragnarok,” whereas veteran British recreation composer Richard Jacques (“James Bond 007: Blood Stone”) was cited for his music for “Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.”

Amongst different Grammy classes, composer Danny Elfman acquired a nomination for finest instrumental association for his “predominant titles” monitor from the “Physician Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity” soundtrack. Two John Williams albums additionally acquired nods: “John Williams: The Berlin Live performance,” a group of his movie work with the Berlin Philharmonic, for finest orchestral efficiency; and “Williams: Violin Concerto No. 2 and Chosen Movie Themes,” with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for finest engineered album within the classical discipline.

Closing-round voting in these classes runs from Dec. 14 to Jan. 4.

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