The Recording Academy introduced the 2023 Grammy Award nominations this morning and there have been few surprises. Beyonce led all nominees with 9 nods adopted by Kendrick Lamar with eight, Adele with seven, and Future and Harry Styles with six every. But for Oscar watchers, these Grammys nominations offered an intriguing sneak peek into quite a lot of aggressive music classes for the 2023 Academy Awards.
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The qualification timelines of each awards are off by quite a lot of months, so the complimentary classes hardly ever line up. For occasion, for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media, solely one of many nominees, Michael Giacchino (“The Batman”), qualifies for the Oscar for Best Original Score. The different 4 nominees, Germaine Franco (“Encanto”), Hans Zimmer (“No Time To Die”), Jonny Greenwood (“The Power of the Dog”), and Nicholas Britell (“Succession: Season 3”), both earned Oscar or Emmy nominations this previous yr or certified for 2022. Now, Best Song Written For Visual Media? That’s far more fascinating.
The nominees are:
“Be Alive” [From “King Richard”] Beyoncé & Darius Scott Dixson, songwriters (Beyoncé)
“Carolina” [From “Where The Crawdads Sing”] Taylor Swift, songwriter (Taylor Swift)
“Hold My Hand” [From “Top Gun: Maverick”] Bloodpop & Stefani Germanotta, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
“Keep Rising (The Woman King)” [From “The Woman King”] Angelique Kidjo, Jeremy Lutito & Jessy Wilson, songwriters (Jessy Wilson Featuring Angelique Kidjo)
“Nobody Like U” [From “Turning Red”] Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell, songwriters (4*Town, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O’Connell, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo, Grayson Villanueva)
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” [From “Encanto”] Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Carolina Gaitán – La Gaita, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz & Encanto – Cast)
Clearly, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” and “Be Alive” don’t qualify, however the different 4 nominees do and are all within the Oscar race for Best Original Song. In reality, Lady Gaga‘s “Hold My Hand” is probably a lock for a nomination at this point. Eilish and O’Connell simply gained for “No Time To Die” and “Nobody Like U” is an integral a part of “Turning Red’s” climax (all the time necessary when the department is judging). Might be harder for Kidjo, Lutito, and Wilson to get in for “Keep Rising,” however Swift’s present domination of the music scene would possibly assist her make the reduce for “Carolina” (and can be a dream for this yr’s Oscar telecast producers).
Other contenders on this yr’s Best Original Song race embody Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR,” “This Is A Life” from “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” LCD Soundsystem‘s “New Body Rhumba” from “White Noise,” “Ciao Papa” from “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “My Mind and Me” from “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me,” and, in fact, there couldn’t be an Oscar season with out Diane Warren attempting to crash the get together. This yr she’s received “Applause” from “Tell It Like A Woman.” Will she name in sufficient votes to make the reduce? Be afraid, be very afraid.
15 contenders might be shortlisted for the Original Song class earlier than the ultimate nominations are introduced. The shortlists might be revealed somewhat over a month any further Dec. 21. The last Oscar nominations might be introduced on Jan 24, 2023.
The 2023 Grammy Awards might be held on Feb 5, 2023, and broadcast stay on CBS.