Awards Watch: Grammy Nominations 2008

The nominees for this year's Grammy Awards were announced yesterday, and below you will find the four categories of most interest to fans of stage and screen:

Best Musical Show Album:

• Gypsy
• In the Heights
• The Little Mermaid
• South Pacific
• Young Frankenstein

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television 0r Other Visual Media:

• American Gangster
• August Rush
• Juno
• Mamma Mia!
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:

• The Dark Knight
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• There Will Be Blood
• WALL-E

Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media:

• "Down to Earth" from WALL-E
• "Ever Ever After" from Enchanted
• "Say" from The Bucket List
• "That's How You Know" from Enchanted
• "Walk Hard" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Note that the cut-off dates for the Grammys are not by calendar year, thus why there are so many nominees from last year's films. The good showing of WALL-E in both score and song categories does bode well for future award prospects for Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel. However, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer's Dark Knight score has already been disqualified from the Academy Awards.

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS February 8.

UPDATE: In a surprise turn of events, the Academy's music branch has reversed their disqualification of the Dark Knight score.