‘Encanto’ sweeps Grammy awards, here’s all the Disney songs, soundtracks that have won
“Encanto” swept al all three visual media categories at the Grammy awards Sunday, Feb. 5,, the first time this has happened in the 24 years since the compilation-soundtrack category was added in 1999.
While one film has won two of the three categories eight times, this is the first time a movie was the won Best Score Soundtrak for Visual Media, Best Song Written Specifically for Motion Picture or for Television and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Lin-Manuel Miranda won for the the song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” which bea out Beyonce (“Be Alive”), Taylor Swift (“Carolina”), Lady Gaga (“Hold My Hand,” a current Oscar nominee), Billie Eilish (“Nobody Like U”) and Jessy Wilson (“Keep Rising”).
The win now brings the total number of Grammy awards it has received for songs and soundtracks to 31, this does include all of John Williams wins for Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark and Elton John’s 1994 win for his performance of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King.”
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
1965: “Mary Poppins”
1978: “Star Wars”
1981: “The Empire Strikes Back”
1982: “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
1992: “Beauty and The Beast”
1993: “Aladdin”
2000: “A Bug’s Life”
2008: “Ratatouille”
2010: “Up”
2011: “Toy Story 3”
2017: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
2019: “Black Panther
2022: “Soul”
2023: “Encanto”
Best Song Written Specifically for Motion Picture or for Television
1991: “Under the Sea” by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman from “The Little Mermaid”
1992: “Beauty and the Beast” by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman from “Beauty and The Beast”
1994: “A Whole New World” by Howard Ashman and Time Rice from “Aladdin”
1995: “Colors of The Wind” by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz from “Pocahontas”
2000: “When She Loves Me” by Randy Newman from “Toy Story 2”
2002: “If I Didn’t Have You” by Randy Newman from “Monsters, Inc.”
2006: “Our Town” by Randy Newsman from “Cars”
2008: “Down to Earth” by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newmanby from “Wall-E”
2011: “I See the Light” by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater from “Tangled”
2015: “Let it Go” by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez from “Frozen”
2017: “How Far I’ll Go” by Lin-Manuel Miranda from “Moana
2023: “We Don’t Talk About Bruno,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda from “Encanto”
Best Instrumental Composition
2019: “Star Wars” Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite”
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media
2000: “Tarzan”
2015: “Frozen”
2023: “Encanto”
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
1994: Elton John, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King”
