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60th GRAMMY Awards Best Music Film Roundup

(L-R) One More Time With Feeling, Two Trains Runnin', Soundbreaking, Long Strange Trip, The Defiant Ones

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2018 GRAMMY Nominations: Best Music Film Roundup

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Celebrating the year's finest visual art and storytelling in music, take an in-depth look at the 60th GRAMMY nominees up for Best Music Film, who broke the mold for what audiences have come to expect from music on screen
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Dec 14, 2017 - 4:07 pm

In a year rife with quality music documentaries and series, the bar has been set high for the Best Music Film category for the 60th GRAMMY Awards.

Furthermore, today's entertainment landscape is rife with myriad on-demand streaming options boasting instant online access to deep catalogs and a slew of new original series. Through all of the competition for our time and attention, five films have risen above the noise to receive GRAMMY nominations.

Nominated projects include fascinating deep dives into some of the most seminal moments and movements in music history, as well as some of today's most powerful industry players and most personal transformations. But at the core of these five nominated projects are two inalienable elements: music and storytelling.

Let's take a closer look at the stories being told by this year's GRAMMY nominees for Best Music Film.

One More Time With Feeling, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Andrew Dominik, video director; Dulcie Kellett & James Wilson, video producers

In a stark portrayal of a musical and poetic genius in a compound state of creativity and grief, One More Time With Feeling chronicles the bittersweet efforts in the making of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' latest album, Skeleton Tree. The tragic death of Cave's 15-year-old son is the dark backdrop of the album — and the film — lending a spiritual gravity to this candid look at its recording process. Director and longtime friend of Cave's, Andrew Dominik, captures the scene and story in striking black-and-white 3-D, intensifying this look inside one of music's most super-human talents and some of his most human moments.

Long Strange Trip (The Grateful Dead)
Amir Bar-Lev, video director; Alex Blavatnik, Ken Dornstein, Eric Eisner, Nick Koskoff & Justin Kreutzmann, video producers

This documentary from Amazon Films takes a creative approach to capturing the circus that was and is the Grateful Dead. From their hyper-communal beginnings, to infamous drug experiments, to building a traveling society. Long Strange Trip feels like a Dead show itself, with lifts, drops and swirls transporting the viewer into the momentary euphoria of a better place where the music has the power to make you feel part of something bigger.

The film also portrays the pressure, sadness and confinement success can bring, especially as it was thrust upon Jerry Garcia, the Dead's greatest and most tragic hero. Through rare, never-before-seen footage, living-room-floor interviews and inventive visual storytelling, Long Strange Trip captures the inevitable come-down of life's greatest party without dampening the spirit of the Dead as it was then and as it lives on today.

The Defiant Ones (Various Artists)
Allen Hughes, video director; Sarah Anthony, Fritzi Horstman, Broderick Johnson, Gene Kirkwood, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Jerry Longarzo, Doug Pray & Steven Williams, video producers

This story of an unlikely duo taking the music business by storm seems better suited for fantastical pages of a comic book, but for engineer-turned-mogul Jimmy Iovine and super-producer Dr. Dre, it's all truth. The Defiant Ones recounts their histories, their tribulations and their wild success. These include first-hand accounts from those who were there in Iovine's early days, such as Bruce Springsteen and U2's Bono, as well as those on board when Dre and Iovine joined forces, such as Snoop Dogg and Eminem.

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The four-part documentary is a must-see for aspiring music business professionals looking for inspiration to overcome obstacles, external and internal.

"Fear is a powerful thing. It's got a lot of firepower," says Iovine in the film's trailer, reflecting on teaming up with Dre. "It was the beginning of making fear a tail wind instead of a head wind."

Soundbreaking (Various Artists)
Maro Chermayeff & Jeff Dupre, video directors; Joshua Bennett, Julia Marchesi, Sam Pollard, Sally Rosenthal, Amy Schewel & Warren Zanes, video producers

The scope of PBS' Soundbreaking documentary is staggering, with an artist list spanning six decades that reads like a wall in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The eight-part series takes a high energy approach to regaling, as they aptly put it, "Stories from the cutting edge of recorded music." With more than 150 original interviews, Soundbreaking leaves no stone unturned in exploring the impact recordings have made on music, people and culture. Most importantly, the series reverently weaves the stories of engineers and producers who crafted the sounds of the future with the artists who launched their generation into it.

Two Trains Runnin' (Various Artists)
Sam Pollard, video director; Benjamin Hedin, video producer

Some moments in history seem so pivotal, it's hard to imagine them not happening. Such is the case with not one or two, but three events that coincided on June 21, 1964. Two Trains Runnin' is the story of these three defining moments.

Narrated by Common, who also served as executive producer, the film tells the story of three young civil rights workers who were murdered by Ku Klux Klan members in Neshoba County, Miss., while participating in the Freedom Summer voter initiative. The tragedy made national headlines and marked a crucial moment in the civil rights movement. On the same day, two sets of men began searches for lost Delta bluesmasters Son House and Skip James in Rochester, N.Y., and Tunica, Miss., respectively. Two Trains Runnin' incorporates all three stories into one remarkable film.

"I was initially hesitant to try and tackle this," director Sam Pollard told Rolling Stone. "I thought that telling the story of the search for Son House and Skip James would be hard, but telling the story of Freedom Summer would be double-y or even triple-y hard. But I said, 'OK, let's tackle it.' It took us on a journey."

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Allen Hughes' "The Defiant Ones" Wins Best Music Film | 2018 GRAMMY

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Director Allen Hughes' four-part documentary takes home Best Music Film honors for its portrayal of the unlikely partnership that changed the music business
Nate Hertweck
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Jan 28, 2018 - 1:09 pm

The team behind The Defiant Ones celebrated a big win for Best Music Film at the 60th GRAMMY Awards. The crew awarded include director Allen Hughes and producers Sarah Anthony, Fritzi Horstman, Broderick Johnson, Gene Kirkwood, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Jerry Longarzo, Doug Pray & Steven Williams.

Watch: "The Defiant Ones" Wins Best Music Film

In a year rife with quality music documentaries and series, the bar has been set high for this dynamic category. The Defiant Ones is a four-part HBO documentary telling the story of an unlikely duo taking the music business by storm seems better suited for fantastical pages of a comic book, but for engineer-turned-mogul Jimmy Iovine and super-producer Dr. Dre, it's all truth.The Defiant Ones recounts their histories, their tribulations and their wild success. These include first-hand accounts from those who were there in Iovine's early days, such as Bruce Springsteen and U2's Bono, as well as those on board when Dre and Iovine joined forces, such as Snoop Dogg and Eminem.

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The competition was stiff as the category was filled with compelling films such as One More Time With Feeling, Two Trains Runnin', Soundbreaking, and Long Strange Trip. 

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From Luis Fonsi, Bruno Mars, SZA, and Childish Gambino to Rapsody, Lady Gaga, Shakira, and Taylor Swift, get forensic with 60 interesting facts about the 60th GRAMMY nominees
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Looking for a different kind of New Year's resolution? How about pledging to become an expert on this year's nominees for the 60th GRAMMY Awards? We can help you do just that.

From first-time nominees and top nominees to GRAMMY history and potential records at stake, we've sliced and diced the 84 categories to bring you 60 delectable factoids about the 60th nominee class.

Make sure to read all 60 facts below and follow all the storylines during Music's Biggest Night at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday, Jan. 28.

1. Jay-Z

Jay-Z is this year's leading GRAMMY nominee with eight nominations. This is the third time the rapper has been the year's leading nominee (or at least tied for the lead). He tied for the lead for 2003 with Beyoncé, OutKast and Pharrell Williams. He held the lead outright for 2013.

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2. SZA

SZA is this year's top female nominee with five nominations, including Best New Artist.

3. Childish Gambino

Childish Gambino is nominated for five GRAMMYs, including Record and Album Of The Year. The versatile performer, aka Donald Glover, won two Emmy Awards in September for his work on the FX series Atlanta. (He won Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series.)

4. "Despacito"

"Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber is this year's only work to be nominated for both Record and Song Of The Year. It's the first foreign-language hit to be nominated in both categories since "La Bamba," recorded by Los Lobos, 30 years ago.

5. "The Story Of O.J."

"The Story Of O.J." is Jay-Z's fourth single to receive a Record Of The Year nomination. It follows Beyoncé's "Crazy In Love," on which he was featured; Rihanna's "Umbrella," on which he was featured; and "Empire State Of Mind," a collaboration with Alicia Keys. Jay-Z is the first rapper to amass four Record Of The Year nominations.

6. Bruno Mars, Record Of The Year

Bruno Mars' "24K Magic" is nominated for Record Of The Year. It's Mars' fifth nomination in that category since 2010. That's more than any other artist in this decade. Mars and Beyoncé are the only artists to amass five nominations since 2000.

7. Kendrick Lamar

DAMN. is Kendrick Lamar's third consecutive studio album to be nominated for Album Of The Year. Kanye West is the only other rapper to receive nominations in this category for three consecutive studio albums.

8. Lorde

Lorde is among the nominees for Album Of The Year for her sophomore release, Melodrama. The young star has now been nominated in three of the General Field categories. Four years ago, her breakthrough hit, "Royals" was nominated for Record Of The Year and won for Song Of The Year.

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9. Alessia Cara, Khalid, Julia Michaels: Song Of The Year

Three of this year's Best New Artist nominees — Alessia Cara, Khalid and Julia Michaels — are up for Song Of The Year. Cara and Khalid co-wrote "1-800-273-7255," the Logic hit on which they are featured. Michaels co-wrote her hit "Issues." This is only the second time in GRAMMY history that three Best New Artist nominees have also been nominated for Song Of The Year in the same year. It first happened 16 years ago with Alicia Keys ("Fallin'"), India.Arie ("Video") and Nelly Furtado ("I'm Like A Bird").

10. Alessia Cara, Best New Artist

Alessia Cara is the first artist who was born in Canada to receive a Best New Artist nomination since 2010, when both Justin Bieber and Drake were nominated.

11. Khalid, Best New Artist

Khalid, 19, is the first teenager to receive a Best New Artist nomination since Justin Bieber, who was 16 when he was a finalist for the 2010 award. Khalid will turn 20 on Feb. 11.

12. Michael Bublé

Michael Bublé lands his eighth nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Nobody But Me (Deluxe Version). He is a four-time winner in the category.

13. Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Triplicate. This gives the music legend a 55-year span of GRAMMY nominations. He received his first nomination for 1962, when his debut album was up for Best Folk Recording. Dylan received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 1991.

14. Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga's Joanne is among the nominees for Best Pop Vocal Album. She won in this category seven years ago for The Fame Monster. Gaga is vying to become the third two-time winner in the category's history, following Kelly Clarkson and Adele.

15. Kraftwerk

Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk are nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album for the second time for 3-D The Catalogue. The German group was first nominated in this category 12 years ago for Minimum-Maximum. 3-D The Catalogue is also nominated for Best Surround Sound Album. Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk are nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album for the second time for 3-D The Catalogue. The German group was first nominated in this category 12 years ago for Minimum-Maximum. 3-D The Catalogue is also nominated for Best Surround Sound Album. Kraftwerk received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2014.

16. Leonard Cohen, Chris Cornell

Leonard Cohen and Chris Cornell are posthumously nominated for Best Rock Performance. Another late, great artist, David Bowie, won the award posthumously last year for "Blackstar."

17. Body Count

Body Count are vying for Best Metal Performance for "Black Hoodie." Bandleader Ice-won a GRAMMY 27 years ago for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group, for his featured role on the title song from Quincy Jones' album, Back On The Block. He's vying to become the first artist to win in both of these categories.

18. Best Metal Performance

Each of the five bands vying for Best Metal Performance — August Burns Red, Body Count, Code Orange, Mastodon, and Meshuggah — is looking to bring home their first GRAMMY Award.

19. Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters are nominated for Best Rock Song for "Run." The group won in the category six years ago for their similarly titled song "Walk." In addition, group members Dave Grohl and Pat Smear shared the 2013 award in that category for "Cut Me Some Slack," a collaboration with Paul McCartney and Krist Novoselic.

20. Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire lands their fifth nomination for Best Alternative Music Album for Everything Now. Only one other group or duo has amassed five or more nominations in this category. Radiohead have had eight.

21. LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem's American Dream is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album. The group's first two albums, LCD Soundsystem and Sound Of Silver, were nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album.

22. Kali Uchis

Kali Uchis receives her first GRAMMY nomination for Best R&B Performance for her featured role on Daniel Caesar's "Get You." At the recent Latin GRAMMY Awards, she received a Record Of The Year nod for "El Ratico," a collaboration with Juanes, who is also a current GRAMMY nominee.

23. The Weeknd

The Weeknd's Starboy is among the nominees for Best Urban Contemporary Album. The Weeknd's previous album, Beauty Behind The Madness, won in the category two years ago. He is vying to become the first two-time winner in the category.

24. Ledisi

Ledisi's Let Love Rule is nominated for Best R&B Album. This is Ledisi's fourth nomination in this category. She was previously nominated for Lost & Found, Turn Me Loose and Pieces Of Me. Ledisi was nominated for Best New Artist 10 years ago.

25. Bruno Mars, Best R&B Album

Bruno Mars' 24K Magic is nominated for Best R&B Album. Mars won Best Pop Vocal Album four years ago for Unorthodox Jukebox. He is vying to become the first artist to win in both of these categories.

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26. Cardi B

"Bodak Yellow" brings Cardi B her first GRAMMY nominations for Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. The title is a play on its musical inspiration: Kodak Black's 2014 hip-hop hit "No Flockin."

27. Jay-Z, Best Rap Album

Jay-Z's 4:44 is nominated for Best Rap Album. Jay-Z won in that category 19 years ago for Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life. If he wins, he'll have the longest span of wins in the category's history. Eminem currently holds that distinction, with a 15-year span of wins in the category.

28. Rapsody

Rapsody's Laila's Wisdom is nominated for Best Rap Album. Rapsody is the fifth female solo artist to be nominated in this category, following Missy Elliott (who has had four nominations in the category), Nicki Minaj (two) and Eve and Iggy Azalea (one each).

29. Tyler, The Creator

Tyler, The Creator's Flower Boy is up for Best Rap Album. It's his second GRAMMY nomination. He was nominated as a featured artist on Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, which was an Album Of The Year contender five years ago.

30. Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss is nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for "Losing You" and Best American Roots Performance for "I Never Cared For You." Krauss is currently tied with Quincy Jones for the second most wins in GRAMMY history with 27. The late classical conductor Sir Georg Solti is the long-time GRAMMY leader, with 31 awards.

31. Little Big Town

Little Big Town are seeking their third win for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Better Man." The group won for "Pontoon" (2012) and "Girl Crush" (2015).

Little Big Town Win Best Country Duo/Group Performance

32. Taylor Swift, Best Country Song

Taylor Swift is vying to win for her third GRAMMY for Best Country Song. She is nominated for writing the Little Big Town hit, "Better Man." Swift previously won for co-writing "White Horse" and writing "Mean." She would become only the second three-time winner in the category. Josh Kear won for co-writing the Carrie Underwood hits "Before He Cheats" and "Blown Away" and the Lady Antebellum hit "Need You Now."

33. Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne

Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne are among the writers of two of this year's nominees for Best Country Song. They co-wrote Sam Hunt's "Body Like A Back Road" and Midland's "Drinkin' Problem." McAnally and Osborne won in this category four years ago for co-writing Kacey Musgraves' "Merry Go 'Round."

34. Chris Stapleton

Chris Stapleton is nominated for Best Country Album for From A Room: Volume 1. He won in the category two years ago for Traveller. Stapleton is vying to become the first male solo artist to win two awards in this category since the late Roger Miller did it more than 50 years ago.

Chris Stapleton Wins Best Country Album

35. Indie.Arie

Indie.Arie's SongVersation: Medicine is nominated for Best New Age Album. She won Best R&B Album 15 years ago for Voyage To India. India.Arie is vying to become the first artist to win in both of these categories.

36. Jazzmeia Horn, Alex Han, Pascal Le Boeuf

Three alumni of the GRAMMY Camp — Jazz Session receive their first GRAMMY nominations. Jazzmeia Horn is nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album, Alex Han for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album and Pascal Le Boeuf for Best Instrumental Composition. The GRAMMY Museum program is designed for outstanding high school jazz musicians.

37. CeCe Winans

CeCe Winans lands two nominations for Best Gospel Album for Let Them Fall In Love and Best Gospel Performance/Song for "Never Have To Be Alone." These are Winans' first nominations in seven years. The gospel great is a 10-time GRAMMY winner.

38. Reba McEntire

Reba McEntire's Sing It Now: Songs Of Faith & Hope is among the nominees for Best Roots Gospel Album. This marks her first nod in the Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Field. She has 13 previous Country Field nominations and one prior Music Video/Film Field nod.

39. Shakira

Shakira's El Dorado is among the nominees for Best Latin Pop Album. Shakira won in that category 17 years ago for Shakira — MTV Unplugged. She is vying to become the first female artist to win twice in this category.

40. Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell is nominated for Best American Roots Performance for "Arkansas Farmboy." This gives the late music legend a 50-year span of GRAMMY nominations. He received six nominations (including four awards) for 1967 for his classic hits "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "Gentle On My Mind." Campbell received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2012.

Glen Campbell: Lifetime Achievement Award Acceptance

41. Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit's The Nashville Sound is nominated for Best Americana Album. Isbell won in this category two years ago for his previous album, Something More Than Free. Isbell is vying to become the second two-time winner in this category, following Levon Helm.

42. The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album for Blue & Lonesome. They won Best Rock Album 23 years ago for Voodoo Lounge. They are vying to become the first artist to win in both of these categories.

43. Yusuf/Cat Stevens

Yusuf/Cat Stevens lands his first GRAMMY nomination, more than 50 years after he released his first album. He is nominated for Best Folk Album for The Laughing Apple.

44. Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley is among the nominees for Best Reggae Album for Stony Hill. With two prior category wins, he's looking to join his brother Stephen Marley as a three-time Best Reggae Album winner. Another brother, Ziggy Marley, has the most wins in the category with seven.

45. Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is nominated in two categories with different albums. Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration is nominated for Best World Music Album. Songs Of Peace & Love For Kids & Parents Around The World is nominated for Best Children's Album.

46. Lisa Loeb

Lisa Loeb is nominated for Best Children's Album for Feel What U Feel. It's her second GRAMMY nomination. She was nominated 23 years ago for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for "Stay (I Missed You)," a chart-topping hit with her group, Nine Stories.

47. Carrie Fisher

The late Carrie Fisher scores her second GRAMMY nomination for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling) for The Princess Diarist. The Star Wars actress was nominated in the same category eight years ago for Wishful Drinking.

48. Bernie Sanders

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) earns his first GRAMMY nomination alongside actor Mark Ruffalo for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling) for the audio version of his book, Our Revolution: A Future To Believe In. Sanders is the fourth politician to be nominated in this category this decade, following fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter (the 2015 winner).

49. Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen receives his 50th GRAMMY nomination for Born To Run, which is among the nominees for Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling). The audiobook shares its title with Springsteen's classic 1975 album, which was voted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2003.

50. Sarah Silverman

Sarah Silverman is nominated for Best Comedy Album for A Speck Of Dust. She is vying to become the fifth female comic to win in this category, following Elaine May (who won for a collaboration with Mike Nichols), Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg, and Kathy Griffin.

51. Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are nominated for Best Musical Theater Album as composers/lyricists and co-producers of Dear Evan Hansen. They're also nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media for "City Of Stars" from La La Land (which they co-wrote with Justin Hurwitz). They previously won a Tony Award for Dear Evan Hansen and an Academy Award for "City Of Stars."

52. Hello, Dolly!

The New Broadway Cast Recording of Hello, Dolly!, starring Bette Midler, is nominated for Best Musical Theater Album. It's the third time a cast album from this durable show has been nominated. An album from the original production, starring Carol Channing, was nominated for 1964. An album from a previous revival, also starring Channing, was nominated for 1995.

53. Justin Hurwitz

Composer Justin Hurwitz's four nominations stemming from the hit film La La Land mark his second try for GRAMMY gold. He was up for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media for his work on Whiplash two years ago. Hurwitz worked with director Damien Chazelle on both films.

54. Game Of Thrones: Season 7

Game Of Thrones: Season 7 is nominated for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media. It's vying to become the first TV soundtrack to win in this category since Mission: Impossible won 50 years ago. Ramin Djawadi is the composer of Game Of Thrones. Lalo Schifrin did the honors on Mission: Impossible.

55. Common, Diane Warren

Common and Diane Warren are nominated for Best Song Written For Visual Media for their collaboration, "Stand Up For Something," from Marshall. Both songwriters are past winners in the category. Common won two years ago for co-writing "Glory" from Selma. Warren won 21 years ago for writing "Because You Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal.

56. Taylor Swift, Best Song Written For Visual Media

Taylor Swift, another nominee for Best Song Written For Visual Media, is also a past winner in that category. Swift, nominated this year for co-writing "I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)," won five years ago for co-writing "Safe And Sound" from The Hunger Games.

57. Calvin Harris

Calvin Harris receives his first Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical nomination. Harris won his first GRAMMY five years ago for "We Found Love," his smash collaboration with Rihanna. They shared the award for Best Short Form Music Video.

58. Greg Kurstin

Greg Kurstin, last year's winner for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical, is nominated in that category again this year. He's vying to become the first producer to win it two years in a row since Babyface won it three years running from 1995 through 1997.

Greg Kurstin wins Producer Of The Year GRAMMY

59. Producer Of The Year, Classical

The Producer Of The Year, Classical category comprises five producers with previous nods in the category. Morten Lindberg, who now has 24 total GRAMMY nominations, is seeking his first win. Blanton Alspaugh, Manfred Eicher, David Frost, and Judith Sherman have each won the category previously.

60. Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar: Best Music Video

Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar are each vying for their second award in the Best Music Video category. Jay-Z, who is nominated for "The Story Of O.J.," won four years ago for "Suit & Tie," a collaboration with Justin Timberlake. Lamar, nominated for "HUMBLE.," won two years ago for "Bad Blood," a collaboration with Taylor Swift. To date, just four artists have won twice in this category: Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Johnny Cash.

The 60th GRAMMY Awards will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York on Jan. 28, 2018, airing live on CBS from 7:30–11 p.m. ET/4:30–8 p.m. PT.

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2018 GRAMMY Nominations: Best Song Written For Visual Media Roundup

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Spanning songs written for 'La La Land,' 'Fifty Shades Darker,' 'Moana,' and more, zoom in on the 60th GRAMMY nominees up for Best Song Written For Visual Media
Tim McPhate
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Dec 28, 2017 - 10:30 am

While films are no doubt all about the visuals, there's no denying the power of music in cinema.

Sometimes, the perfect song can punctuate a film scene perfectly, or, if the composer's lucky, result in an iconic Hollywood moment. Think Audrey Hepburn crooning "Moon River" in Breakfast At Tiffany's or John Travolta's strut to the tune of "Stayin' Alive" in Saturday Night Fever, just to name a couple.

The five nominees for Best Song Written For Visual Media for the 60th GRAMMY Awards are all songs written for the silver screen. Each offers a modern example of a vital auditory companion to a film. In other words, when you sing along, you can probably picture the movie instantly.

Have a closer listen to this year's nominated songs and learn more about the songwriters behind them.

(Editor's Note: Best Song Written For Visual Media is awarded to the songwriters of a song written specifically for a motion picture, television, video game or other visual media. Artist names appear in parentheses.)

"City Of Stars"

Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone)
Track from La La Land

The romantic musical La La Land had a fairy-tale ending in becoming the most decorated film of 2016 with six Oscars. The film's title song, "City Of Stars," featuring vocals shared by cast members Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, netted Best Original Song.

The affable tune, which impeccably bottles the tone of the film, forms the basis of multiple scenes, including when Sebastian (Gosling) sings and dances on the Hermosa Beach pier. "['City Of Stars'] started at the piano with me just working on demos," said co-writer Justin Hurwitz. "I would say the tone is hopeful, but melancholy at the same time."

This nod is one of four La La Land-related nominations for Hurwitz. His collaborators Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are each up for Best Musical Theater Album for Dear Evan Hansen. All three are seeking their first GRAMMY win. Should "City Of Stars" prevail, it would become the latest in a lineage of songs to win both a GRAMMY and an Oscar.

"How Far I'll Go"

Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli'i Cravalho)
Track from Moana: The Songs

Lin-Manuel Miranda is seeking his third taste of GRAMMY gold with this song from the hit Disney animated motion picture, Moana. With its "I can do it" theme, the platinum tune, performed by actress/singer Auli'i Cravalho (Moana), was in the running for Best Original Song at the 2017 Oscars, but ending up losing to fellow nominee "City Of Stars."

As it turns out, Miranda employed a form of "acting" to compose the uplifting song. The GRAMMY winner returned to his parents' home and actually locked himself in his childhood bedroom in a bid to get in the creative mindset of a 16-year-old, the same age of the main character, Moana. "I kind of went method for it," said Miranda. "I like, locked myself up in my bedroom and it was like, 'All right, you're 16 years old.'"

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Miranda is also up for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media for his co-producer role on the soundtrack to Moana: The Songs. He has two prior wins for Best Musical Theater Album for In The Heights and Hamilton.

"I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)"

Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (ZAYN & Taylor Swift)
Track from Fifty Shades Darker

Ripe with sexy falsettos and mesmerizing instrumentation, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" is arguably as electric as the steamy film itself. The combustible chemistry of the unlikely pairing of Taylor Swift and ZAYN make for the perfect aural backdrop to Fifty Shades Darker's sailing scene between Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). And upon its release, the song sailed all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Not bad for a song that "came together very quickly," according to Jack Antonoff, who also revealed via Twitter that it was produced "at home mostly on paper sounds."

i don't wanna live forever came together very quickly. wrote it with taylor and sam dew and produced it at home mostly on paper sounds

— jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) December 9, 2016

The 10-time GRAMMY winner Swift is a past winner in the category, earning the honor for "Safe And Sound (From The Hunger Games)" at the 55th GRAMMY Awards. She is up for another songwriter award this year, Best Country Song, for writing Little Big Town's "Better Man."

Anotnoff, a three-time past winner, is also up for Album Of The Year for his production and songwriting roles on Lorde's Melodrama. Sam Dew is a first-time nominee.

"Never Give Up"

Sia Furler & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia)
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One of the more authentic film anthems in recent memory, "Never Give Up" is the product of Sia and her frequent collaborator, producer/songwriter Greg Kurstin.

Featured in Lion, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, the music in "Never Give Up" perfectly matches the film's storyline about a young Indian boy who searches for his Indian birth family 25 years after being adopted by Australians. The song's message mixes an inspirational message on top of Bollywood-style music flourishes, with Sia declaring, "I won't let you get me down/I'll keep getting up when I hit the ground/Oh, never give up, no."

Sia, who was nominated in this category last year for "Try Everything" from Zootopia, is in search of her first GRAMMY win. Four-time GRAMMY winner Kurstin is also nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical, which he won last year.

"Stand Up For Something"

Common, Andra Day & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common)
Track from Marshall

The potent combination of Andra Day's powerhouse vocals and Common's insightful rhymes form the centerpiece of this anthem. Featured in Marshall, a biopic on African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Common and film music songwriter par excellence Diane Warren focused on the timeless sentiment of standing one's moral ground.

"It could have taken place in the '60s or '70s, but it's relevant to today," Common told "Good Morning America" about Marshall. "Unfortunately, we have to encounter these issues, but we have to take them head-on. … We've got to stand up for whatever it may be, whether it's animal rights, the environment, women's rights, and standing up against the injustices."

Common and Warren are each prior winners in the category. The three-time GRAMMY-winning rapper won the honor for "Glory" from Selma at the 58th GRAMMY Awards. Warren has 10 prior nominations in the category, including a win for "Because You Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal at the 39th GRAMMY Awards. Day is seeking her first GRAMMY win.

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Take a moment to reflect and salute the members of the music community who we lost in 2017–2018
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(The following is a list of artists and industry professionals the music community lost in 2017–2018. The 60th GRAMMY Awards telecast on CBS will feature an In Memoriam segment highlighting some of these individuals via a video tribute, and all of these individuals who died prior to Dec. 20, 2017 are included in the official 60th GRAMMY Awards program book. The Recording Academy salutes each individual for their respective talents and contributions to our culture and community.)

John Abercrombie
Paul James Abler
Muhal Richard Abrams
Ken Ackerman
Gustav Åhr aka Lil Peep
Martin Ain
Alan Aldridge
Alessandro Alessandroni
Geri Allen
Ronnie Allen
Gregg Allman
Tommy Allsup
Joey Alves
Kishori Amonkar
Herb Oscar Anderson
David Angel
Harry Anger
David Arben
Gary Arnold
Svend Asmussen
José Vicente Asuar
Xavier "X" Atencio
George Avakian
David Axelrod
Luis Enriquez Bacalov
Margie Balter
Junior Barber
Mike Barhorst
Chuck Barris
Mahi Beamer
Kenny Beard
Jimmy Beaumont
Walter Becker
Belchior
Émile Belcourt
Melissa Bell
Jiří Bělohlávek
Chester Bennington
Pierre Bergé
Shelley Berman
Ilene Berns
Chuck Berry
Chris Bevington
Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya
Hayward Sherman Bishop Jr.
John Blackwell Jr.
Kimble Blair
Lee Blakeley
William Blankenship
Edward Blau
Arthur Blythe
Black Bo
Andre "L.A. Dre" Bolton
Sheila Bond
Helen Borgers
Bimba Bosé
John Boudreaux Jr.
Géori Boué
Derek Bourgeois
Patrick Bourgeois
Jesse Boyce
Jack Boyle
Charles Bradley
José Bragato
Thomas Brandis
Loalwa Braz
Daniel Brewbaker
Fletcher Bright
William David Brohn
Lonnie Brooks
Mar Brown
Tammy Brown
Jason Browning
Colin Brumby
Eduard Brunner
Anshel Brusilow
Dave Bry
Bill Bryson
Paul Buckmaster
Sonny Burgess
Jim Burns
Charles "Chuckie" Bush II
Ronnie Butler
Joy Byers
Tony Calder
Eamonn Campbell
Glen Campbell
Jeffrey Campbell aka Educated Rapper
Ralph Carney
Barbara Carroll
Howard Carroll
Mel Carter
Valerie Carter
Erik Cartwright
Kathleen Cassello
David Cassidy
Roland Cazimero
Manno Charlemagne
Sheila Raye Charles
Jacques Charpentier
Rick Chavez
Elisabeth Chojnacka
Dave Christenson
Earl Clark
"Fast" Eddie Clarke
José Miguel Class
John Coates Jr.
Kurt Cochran
Wayne Cochran
Kelan Phil Cohran
Fred Cole
Bill Collings
Benny Collins
Dick Contino
Fiora Corradetti Contino
Barbara Cook
Eric Cook
John Byrne Cooke
Jimmy Copley
Kenny Cordray
Chris Cornell
Joey Corpus
Frank Corsaro
Jason Corsaro
Larry Coryell
James Cotton
Tom Coyne
John Critchinson
Dub Crouch
Willy Cruz
Salvador "Sal" Cuevas
Bob Cunningham
Clem Curtis
Holger Czukay
Steve Dahl
Bill Dana
Warrel Dane
Enzo Dara
Donna Darlene
Wilson das Neves
Michael "DikMik" Davies
CeDell Davis
Ronnie Davis
Tony Davis
Robert De Cormier
Henry-Louis de La Grange
Laudir de Oliveira
Gervase de Peyer
Gary DeCarlo
Alvin DeGuzman
Refugio "Cuco" Del Cid
Jonathan Demme
André Di Cesare
Magín Díaz
Rob "Apex" Dickeson
Philip Dikeman
Pat DiNizio
Richard Divall
Lorenzo Dixon aka Zoe Realla
Trish Doan
Richard Dobson
Fats Domino
Jimmy Dotson
Bill Dowdy
Gord Downie
George Dreyfus
Carlo Driggs
Paul Lustig Dunkel
Errol Dyers
Tom Edwards
Pavel Egorov
Terry Elam
Halim El-Dabh
Larry Elgart
Martín Elías
Jan Elliott
Kitty Moon Emery
Calep Emphrey Jr.
Wendell Eugene
Dave Evans
Eric Eycke
Vincent Falcone
Huang Feili
Jordan Feldstein
Joe Fields
Seth Firkins
Mark Fisher aka k-punk
Robert Fisher
Roy Fisher
Pat "Fitzy" Fitzpatrick
Edi Fitzroy
Laura Flax
June Foray
Rev. Jim Forrester
Bob Forshee
Bruce Forsyth
Robert Fraker
Bobby Freeman
Evelyn Freeman Roberts
Kaleb Freitas
Louis Frémaux
Michael Friedman
Dominic Frontiere
Mikio Fujioka
Jim Fuller
Martin Funderud
Thomas Füri
France Gall
Brian Gallagher
Brian Galliford
Sandy Gallin
Vin Garbutt
Kevin Garcia
Landy Gardner
Phil Garland
Tibério Gaspar
Dick Gautier
Nicolai Gedda
John Maxwell Geddes
John Warren Geils Jr. aka J. Geils
Troy Gentry
Sonny Geraci
Caesar Giovannini
Pentti "Whitey" Glan
Harold Goad
Melly Gomez
Otoniel Gonzaga
Jack Good
Cuba Gooding Sr.
Philip Gossett
Scott Gould
Nigel Grainge
Kyla Greenbaum
Ed Greene
Dick Gregory
Don Grilley
Edward Grimes
Horacio Guarany
Robert Guillaume
Peter Hall
Rick Hall
Johnny Hallyday
Stuart Hamilton
Rosie Hamlin
Bruce Hampton
Chad Hanks
Gary Harris
Larry Harris
Grant Hart
Keith Harvey
John "Sib" Hashian
Walter Hautzig
Edwin Hawkins
Peggy Hayama
Skip Haynes
Bill Hearn
Bob Heatherly
Jon Hendricks
Karl Hendricks
Pierre Henry
Bob Higgins
Buck Hill
Dave Hlubek
Robbie Hoddinott
William M. Hoffman
Allan Holdsworth
Aubrey Holt
Matt Holt
Randy Hongo
Linda Hopkins
Virgil Howe
Mike Hudson
Don Hunstein
Al Hurricane Sr.
Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Benard Ighner
Madalena Iglésias
Richie Ingui
Glen "Cookie" Inman
Alan Jabbour
Jay "Icepick" Jackson
Al Jarreau
Anne Jeffreys
James J.J. Jenkins
Kristine Jepson
Shelby Jewell
Tzipora Jochsberger
Evan Johns
Blake Johnson
Michael Johnson
Robert "P-Nut" Johnson
Brenda Jones
Hedley Jones
Melvyn "Deacon" Jones
Shawn Jones
Warren "Rhubarb" Jones
Kim Jong-Hyun
Manfred Jung
Ikutaro Kakehashi
Hiroshi "Monsieur " Kamayatsu
David Kapralik
Marcus "Intalex " Kaye aka Trevino
Tommy Keene
Mike Kellie
Leonid Kharitonov
Maxx Kidd
Wilhelm Killmayer
Thandi Klaasen
Roberta Knie
Robert Knight
Tom Knox
Dmitri Kogan
Siegfried Köhler
Péter Komlós
Aloys Kontarsky
Leo Kristi
Joan Krueger
Rainer Kussmaul
Pete Kuykendall
Helen Kwalwasser
Vincent La Selva
Fredell Lack
Marty Lacker
Gerry Lacoursiere
Jimmy LaFave
Deborah Lamprell
Martin Landau
Rosemarie Lang
Steve Lang
Gordon Langford
Bruce Langhorne

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James Laurence
Reggie Lavong
June LeBell
Katie Lee
Mike Leech
Deke Leonard
Murray Lerner
John Lever
Walter Levin
Brenda Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Miggie Lewis
Ralph Lewis
David Lewiston
Daniel Licht
Harvey Lichtenstein
Nona Liddell
Ingvar Lidholm
Jaki Liebezeit
Earl "Wya" Lindo
Thor Lindsay
Malcolm Lipkin
Tommy LiPuma
Carol Lloyd
Chuck Loeb
Tony Lorenzo
Mundell Lowe
Jay S. Lowy
Nora Mae Lyng
Geoff Mack
Gabriel "Negru" Mafa
Mario Maglieri
Kevin Mahogany
Robbie Malinga
Mitch Margo
Rose Marie
William "Bill" Marín
Don Markham
Ric Marlow
Naomi Martin
Lionel Augustus Martin aka Saxa
Eddie Mascolo
Hugh Masekela
Yuushi Matsuyama
Ralphie May
William Mayer
Yung Mazi
Tom McClung
Goldy McJohn
Reggie Joseph "Mac" McLaughlin
Stuart McLean
Vernon McQueen
Thomas Meehan
Luiz Melodia
Thara Memory
D.L. Menard
Misha Mengelberg
Heather Menzies-Urich
Robert Miles
Eric Miller
Frank Miller
Phil Miller
Donald Mitchell
Keith Mitchell
Billy Mize
Ivan Mogull
Kurt Moll
Jonathan Moore
Pete Moore
Bennett Morgan
Jay R. Morgenstern
Alfred Morris III
Walter "Junie" Morrison
Margaret Moser
Chuck Mosley
Sylvia Moy
Ronald "Bingo" Mundy
David Murph
Sunny Murray
Chris Murrell
Melton Mustafa
Jim Nabors
Toshio Nakanishi
Jimmy Nalls
Carol Neblett
Vincent Nguini
Geoff Nicholls
Abby Nicole
Steve "Grizzly" Nisbett
Bern Nix
Dick Noel
Shea Norman
Corki Casey O'Dell
Lee O'Denat aka Q
Rory O'Donoghue
Paul O'Neill
Dolores O'Riordan
William Onyeabor
Reggie Ossé aka Combat Jack
Ernst Ottensamer
Bert Padell
Tommy Page
Ralph Paige
Tom Paley
Marlene Palmer
Judy Parker
Kirby Parker
Horace Parlan
Angel Parra
Frankie Paul
Skipp Pearson
David Peel
Dave Pell
Buddy Pendleton
Harry Pendleton
Jerry Perenchio
Maurice Peress
Carol Peters
Roberta Peters
Marilyn Petrone
Tom Petty
Eugene Phillips
Ray Phiri
Willie Pickens
David B. Pigg
Wally Pikal
Tulsa Pittaway
Kim Plainfield
Derek Poindexter
Robert "Pops" Popwell
Miles Porcaro
Rob Potts
Joey Powers
John Preston
Norma Procter
Prodigy
Skip Prokop
Michael Prophet
Scott Putesky aka Daisy Berkowitz
Janet Rains aka Jane Train
Elkin Ramírez
Joseph Rascoff
Gil Ray
Larry Ray
Sandra Reemer
Della Reese
Garnet Reid
George Reiff
Ludger Rémy
Cel Revuelta
Leon Rhodes
Fernando Riba
Belton Richard
Denis Richard
Keni Richards
Don Rickles
Paquita Rico
Ben Riley
Nic Ritter
Lyle Ritz
Kayton Roberts
Jimmy Robinson
Maggie Roche
Jim Rodford
Helmut Roehrig
Mickey Roker
Jim Rollins
Juan Romero
Louis Roney
Clotilde Rosa
Jerry Ross
Dave Rosser
Sidney Rothstein
Elliot "Dean" Rubinson
Roswell Rudd
David Rumsey
Zuzana Ruzickova
Chingiz Sadykhov
Eric Salzman
Harry Sandler
Johnny Sandlin
Ben Sandoval
Fredo Santana
Carles Santos
Tony "It" Särkkä
Josh Schwartz
Joey Scinta
David Sebring
Curly Seckler
Janet Seidel
Bob Seidemann
Mark Selby
María Martha Serra Lima
Jessy Serrata
Shadia
Natalia Shakhovskaya
Preston Shannon
Charles "Bobo" Shaw
Iain Shedden
Kenny Shields
John Shifflett
Pete Shotton
Walter "Bunny" Sigler
George Silfies
Noel "Scully" Simms
Ted Simons
Dudley Simpson
John Sippel
Peter Skellern
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Heather Slade-Lipkin
Joni Sledge
Tzvi Small
Barry "Frosty" Smith
Fenwick Smith
Keely Smith
Toby Smith
Barbara Smith Conrad
Dmitry Smolsky
Kelley Sallee Snead
Ann Sneed
Ted Sommer
Rosalie Sorrels
Zurab Sotkilava
Harry Sparnaay
Ben Speer
Rosa Nell Speer Powell
Jerome Spence
Thornton Spencer
Marc Spitz
Irwin Stambler
Kevin Stanton
Orrin Star
Howard Stark
Cameron Spencer Starnes
Larry Steinbachek
Elyse Steinman
Rick Stevens
Chuck Stewart
Buster Stiggs
Ken Stilts
Robert Strängen Dahlqvist
Jonathan Strasser
Clyde Stubblefield
Tammy Sullivan
Daisy Sweeney
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini
Grady Tate
Jeffrey Tate
Bobby Taylor
Morriss Taylor
Tony Terran
Ammon Tharp
Wendy Thatcher
Banner Thomas
Marvell Thomas
Ray Thomas
Stuart Thompson
Francis Thorne
Mel Tillis
William Tolley
Richard Toop
Veljo Tormis
Fernando Toussaint
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