Awards Watch: The Grammys

The Grammy Awards are more then just Justin; four categories honor music composed for other mediums, including the movies and the theater. This year's nominees (announced today) are a mixture of film and stage productions from this year and last, due to the Grammys' eligibility period from October 2006 to September 2007. Thus, most of the scores and songs listed here were in last year's award races, although a few newbies did get recognized.

Gustavo Santaolalla won the Academy Award last year for his Babelscore, and is nominated here for Best Score Soundtrack Album, along with fellow Oscar nominee Pan's Labyrinthby Javier Navarrete. Other 2006 scores in the mix are James Newton Howard's Blood Diamond,Howard Shore's The Departedand John Powell's Happy Feet.The lone 2007 nominee is Ratatouilleby Michael Giacchino.

Happy Feet is also recognized for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture with Prince's Golden Globe winner, "The Song of The Heart", as well as Chris Cornell's James Bond theme "You Know My Name" from Casino Royaleand the Oscar-nominated, Jennifer Hudson sung Dreamgirlstune, "Love You I Do". The remaining two songs are contenders in this year's Oscar derby, "Falling Slowly" from Onceand Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild.

The Beatles factor into two of the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album nominees with both Across the Universeand, oddly, Love,the Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show (which really should be in the next category, but hey, remember this is the Grammys). Hairsprayjoins Dreamgirls and Once to round out the category.

And finally, the Best Musical Show Album category includes last year's Tony Award-winner for score, Spring Awakening,competing with fellow Tony nominee Grey Gardens. Rounding out the category are three old favorites revisited: A Chorus Line,Companyand West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Recording.

The Grammy Awards will be presented February 20 during a live telecast on CBS.

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