Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media has been awarded since 1988 for the best songs written for movies, television, video games and other visual media.

The award name has been through several name changes over the years:

• 1988 to 1999: Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
• 2000 to 2011: Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
• 2012 to present: Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. The award is presented to the songwriter(s).

1980s

Year	Recipient(s)	Work (Performer(s) in brackets)	Nominees (Performer(s) in brackets)	Ref.
1988	James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil	"Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail (Linda Ronstadt & James Ingram)	Al Jarreau & Lee Holdridge for "Moonlighting" from Moonlighting (Al Jarreau) Franke Previte, John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz for "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing (Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes) Diane Warren & Albert Hammond for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from Mannequin (Starship) Patrick Leonard & Madonna for "Who's That Girl" from Who's That Girl (Madonna)	[1]
1989	Phil Collins and Lamont Dozier	"Two Hearts" (from Buster) (Phil Collins)	Albert Hammond & John Bettis for "One Moment in Time" from 1988 Summer Olympics (Whitney Houston) Donald Fagen for "Century's End" from Bright Lights, Big City Mike Love, Terry Melcher, John Phillips & Scott McKenzie for "Kokomo" from Cocktail (The Beach Boys) George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa for "Cry Freedom" from Cry Freedom	[2]

1990s

Year	Recipient(s)	Work (Performer(s) in brackets)	Nominees (Performer(s) in brackets)	Ref.
1990	Carly Simon	"Let the River Run" from Working Girl	Prince for "Partyman" from Batman Randy Newman for "I Love to See You Smile" from Parenthood Alan & Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch for "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" from Shirley Valentine (Patti Austin) U2 for "Angel of Harlem" from U2: Rattle and Hum	[3]
1991	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman	"Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid (Various artists)	Stephen Sondheim for "More" from Dick Tracy (Madonna) Stephen Sondheim for "Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy (Madonna) Howard Ashman & Alan Menken for "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid (Various artists) Jon Bon Jovi for "Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II	[4]
1992	Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Michael Kamen & Bryan Adams	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Bryan Adams)	John Williams & Leslie Bricusse for "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone (John Williams) Stevie Wonder for "Gotta Have You" from Jungle Fever Stevie Wonder for "Jungle Fever" from Jungle Fever	[5]
1993	Howard Ashman & Alan Menken	"Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson)	Carole King for "Now and Forever" from A League of Their Own Michael Kamen, Sting & Eric Clapton for "It's Probably Me" from Lethal Weapon 3 (Sting with Eric Clapton) Robert Kraft & Arne Glimcher for "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" from The Mambo Kings (Los Lobos) Eric Clapton & Will Jennings for "Tears in Heaven" from Rush (Eric Clapton)	[6]
1994	Alan Menken & Tim Rice	"A Whole New World" from Aladdin (Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle)	Alan Menken & Howard Ashman for "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin (Robin Williams) David Foster & Linda Thompson – "I Have Nothing" from The Bodyguard (Whitney Houston) Allan Dennis Rich & Jud Friedman for "Run to You" from The Bodyguard (Whitney Houston) Steve DuBerry, Lulu Lawrie & Billy Lawrie for "I Don't Wanna Fight" from What's Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner)	[7]
1995	Bruce Springsteen	"Streets of Philadelphia" from Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)	Carole Bayer Sager, Clif Magness, & James Ingram for "The Day I Fall In Love", Beethoven's 2nd (Dolly Parton and James Ingram) Elton John & Tim Rice for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" from The Lion King (Elton John) Elton John & Tim Rice for "Circle of Life" from The Lion King (Elton John) Madonna, Patrick Leonard, & Richard Page for "I'll Remember" from With Honors (Madonna)	[8]
1996	Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz	"Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas (Vanessa Williams and Judy Kuhn)	Babyface for "Someone to Love" from Bad Boys (Jon B. and Babyface) Bruce Hornsby & Chaka Khan for "Love Me Still" from Clockers (Chaka Khan) Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, & Robert John "Mutt" Lange for "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from Don Juan DeMarco (Bryan Adams) James Horner, Barry Mann, & Cynthia Weil for "Whatever You Imagine" from The Pagemaster (Wendy Moten)	[9]
1997	Diane Warren	"Because You Loved Me" from Up Close & Personal (Celine Dion)	John Williams, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman for "Moonlight" from Sabrina (Sting) Babyface for "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" from Waiting to Exhale (Whitney Houston) Babyface for "It Hurts Like Hell" from Waiting to Exhale (Aretha Franklin) Babyface, Michael Houston & Whitney Houston for "Count On Me" from Waiting to Exhale (Whitney Houston and CeCe Winans)	[10]
1998	R. Kelly	"I Believe I Can Fly" from Space Jam (R. Kelly)	Diane Warren for "How Do I Live" from Con Air (Trisha Yearwood) Cédric Gradus Samson for "Father of Our Nation" from Mandela and de Klerk (Jennifer Jones and Hugh Masekela) Jud Friedman, James Newton Howard & Allan Dennis Rich for "For the First Time" from One Fine Day (Kenny Loggins) Babyface for "A Song for Mama" from Soul Food (Boyz II Men)	[11]
1999	James Horner & Will Jennings	"My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic (Celine Dion)	Diane Warren for "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from Armageddon (Aerosmith) Alanis Morissette for "Uninvited" from City of Angels Matthew Wilder & David Zippel for "True to Your Heart" from Mulan (98 Degrees and Stevie Wonder) Sheryl Crow & Mitchell Froom for "Tomorrow Never Dies" from Tomorrow Never Dies (Sheryl Crow)	[12]

2000s

Year	Recipient(s)	Work (Performer(s) in brackets)	Nominees (Performer(s) in brackets)	Ref.
2000	Madonna & William Orbit	"Beautiful Stranger" from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Madonna)	Randy Newman for "The Time of Your Life" from A Bug's Life Diane Warren for "Music of My Heart" from Music of the Heart (NSYNC and Gloria Estefan) Stephen Schwartz & Babyface for "When You Believe" from The Prince of Egypt (Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston) Phil Collins for "You'll Be in My Heart" from Tarzan	[13]
2001	Randy Newman	"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 (Sarah McLachlan)	Samuel J. Barnes, Beyoncé Knowles, Jean Claude Olivier & Cory Rooney for "Independent Women Part I" from Charlie's Angels (Destiny's Child) Aimee Mann for "Save Me" from Magnolia Peter Buck, Mike Mills & Michael Stipe for "The Great Beyond" from Man on the Moon (R.E.M.) Bob Dylan for "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys	[14]
2002	John Flansburgh & John Linnell	"Boss of Me" from Malcolm in the Middle (They Might Be Giants)	David Hartley & Sting for "My Funny Friend And Me" from The Emperor's New Groove (Sting) Brandon Barnes & Brian McKnight for "Win" from Men of Honor (Brian McKnight) Diane Warren for "There You'll Be" from Pearl Harbor (Faith Hill) Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun & James Schamus for "A Love Before Time" from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Coco Lee)	[15]
2003	Randy Newman	"If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. (Randy Newman)	Erykah Badu, Madukwu Chinwah, Common, Robert C. Ozuna, James Poyser, Raphael Saadiq & Glen Standridge for "Love of My Life – An Ode to Hip Hop" from Brown Sugar (Erykah Badu and Common) Enya, Nicky Ryan & Roma Ryan for "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Enya) Chad Kroeger for "Hero" from Spider-Man (Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott) Paul McCartney for "Vanilla Sky" from Vanilla Sky	[16]
2004	Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy & Michael McKean	"A Mighty Wind" from A Mighty Wind (The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers)	Christopher Bridges & Keith McMasters for "Act a Fool" from 2 Fast 2 Furious (Ludacris) Jeff Bass, Marshall Mathers & Luis Resto for "Lose Yourself" from 8 Mile (Eminem) Fred Ebb & John Kander for "I Move On" from Chicago (Catherine Zeta-Jones & Renée Zellweger) U2 for "The Hands That Built America" from Gangs of New York	[17]
2005	Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh	"Into the West" from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Annie Lennox)	T-Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello for "The Scarlet Tide" from Cold Mountain (Alison Krauss) Sting for "You Will Be My Ain True Love" from Cold Mountain (Alison Krauss) David Bryson, Adam Duritz, David Immerglück, Matthew Malley & Dan Vickrey for "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 (Counting Crows) Benoît Charest & Sylvain Chomet for "Belleville Rendez-Vous" from The Triplets of Belleville (-M-)	[18][19]
2006	Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri	"Believe" from The Polar Express (Josh Groban)	Arcade Fire for "Cold Wind" from Six Feet Under John August & Danny Elfman for "Wonka's Welcome Song" from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Danny Elfman) Tom Petty for "Square One" from Elizabethtown Andrea Guerra, Wyclef Jean & Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis for "Million Voices" from Hotel Rwanda (Wyclef Jean)	[20]
2007	Randy Newman	"Our Town" from Cars (James Taylor)	Imogen Heap for "Can't Take It In" from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Melissa Etheridge for "I Need To Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth Mel Brooks for "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway" from The Producers (Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick) Dolly Parton for "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica	[21]
2008	Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger	"Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls (Jennifer Hudson)	David Arnold & Chris Cornell for "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale (Chris Cornell) Prince for "Song of the Heart" from Happy Feet Eddie Vedder for "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová for "Falling Slowly" from Once	[22]
2009	Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman	"Down to Earth" from WALL-E (Peter Gabriel)	John Mayer for "Say" from The Bucket List Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz for "Ever Ever After" from Enchanted (Carrie Underwood) Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz for "That's How You Know" from Enchanted (Amy Adams) Judd Apatow, Marshall Crenshaw, Jake Kasdan & John C. Reilly for "Walk Hard" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (John C. Reilly)	[23]

2010s

Year	Recipient(s)	Work (Performer(s) in brackets)	Nominees (Performer(s) in brackets)	Ref
2010	Gulzar, A. R. Rahman & Tanvi Shah	"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire (A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash)	Karen O & Nick Zinner for "All Is Love" from Where the Wild Things Are (Karen O and the Kids) Josh Farro, Hayley Williams & Taylor York for "Decode" from Twilight (Paramore) Ian Dench, James Dring, Amanda Ghost, Beyoncé Knowles, Scott McFarnon & Jody Street for "Once in a Lifetime" from Cadillac Records (Beyoncé) Bruce Springsteen for "The Wrestler", The Wrestler	[24]
2011	Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett	"The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart (Ryan Bingham)	Randy Newman for "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog (Dr. John) Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell & James Horner for "I See You (Theme from Avatar)" from Avatar (Leona Lewis) Lucinda Williams for "Kiss Like Your Kiss" from True Blood (Lucinda Williams and Elvis Costello) Steve Earle for "This City" from Treme	[25]
2012	Alan Menken & Glenn Slater	"I See the Light" from Tangled (Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi)	Diane Warren for "Born to Be Somebody" from Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Justin Bieber) Ron Jones, Seth MacFarlane & Danny Smith for "Christmastime is Killing Us" from Family Guy Zooey Deschanel for "So Long" from Winnie The Pooh (Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward) Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette, Drew Pearson & Anne Preven fot "Where The River Goes" from Footloose (Zac Brown) Diane Warren for "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" from Burlesque (Cher)	[26]
2013	T Bone Burnett, Taylor Swift, Joy Williams & John Paul White	"Safe & Sound" from The Hunger Games (Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars)	T Bone Burnett, Win Butler & Regine Chassagne for "Abraham's Daughter" from The Hunger Games (Arcade Fire) Mumford & Sons for "Learn Me Right" from Brave (Birdy and Mumford & Sons) Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman for "Let Me Be Your Star" from Smash (Katharine McPhee & Megan Hilty) Bret McKenzie for "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets (Jason Segel and Walter)	[27]
2014	Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth	"Skyfall" from Skyfall (Adele)	Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin for "Atlas" from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Coldplay) Diane Warren for "Silver Lining (Crazy 'Bout You)" from Silver Linings Playbook (Jessie J) Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw for "We Both Know" from Safe Haven Lana Del Rey & Rick Nowels for "Young and Beautiful" from The Great Gatsby (Lana Del Rey) Regina Spektor for "You've Got Time" from Orange Is the New Black	[28]
2015	Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez	"Let It Go" from Frozen (Idina Menzel)	Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton, and Shawn Patterson for "Everything Is Awesome" from The Lego Movie (Tegan and Sara and The Lonely Island) Ed Sheeran for "I See Fire" from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Glen Campbell & Julian Raymond for "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me (Glen Campbell) Spike Jonze & Karen O for "The Moon Song" from Her (Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix)	[29]
2016	Common, Che Smith & John Legend	"Glory" from Selma (Common and John Legend)	Belly, Deheala, Stephan Moccio, & Abel Tesfaye for "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey (The Weeknd) Ilya, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Tove Lo, & Ali Payami for "Love Me like You Do" from Fifty Shades of Grey (Ellie Goulding) Andrew Cedar, DJ Frank E, Wiz Khalifa, & Charlie Puth for "See You Again" from Furious 7 (Wiz Khalida featuring Charlie Puth) Lady Gaga & Diane Warren for "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground (Lady Gaga)	[30]
2017	Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake	"Can't Stop the Feeling!" from Trolls (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar)	Tyler Joseph for "Heathens" from Suicide Squad (Twenty One Pilots) Oscar Holter, Max Martin, P!nk & Shellback for "Just Like Fire" from Alice Through The Looking Glass (P!nk) Shamann Cooke, Sonny Moore & William Roberts for "Purple Lamborghini" from Suicide Squad (Skrillex & Rich Ross) Sia Furler & Stargate for "Try Everything" from Zootopia (Shakira) Peter Gabriel for "The Veil" from Snowden	[31]
2018	Lin-Manuel Miranda	"How Far I'll Go" from Moana (Auli'i Cravalho)	Justin Hurwitz, Pasek & Paul for "City of Stars" from La La Land (Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone) Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift for "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" from Fifty Shades Darker (ZAYN and Taylor Swift) Greg Kurstin & Sia Furler for "Never Give Up" from Lion (Sia) Common & Diane Warren for "Stand Up for Something" from Marshall (Andra Day featuring Common)	[32]
2019	Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando & Andrew Wyatt	"Shallow" from A Star Is Born (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)	Kendrick Duckworth, Solána Rowe, Alexander William Shuckburgh, Mark Anthony Spears & Anthony Tiffith for "All the Stars" from Black Panther (Kendrick Lamar and SZA) Sufjan Stevens for "Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez for "Remember Me" from Coco (Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade) Pasek & Paul for "This Is Me", The Greatest Showman (Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble)	[33]

2020s

Year	Recipient(s)	Work (Performer(s) in brackets)	Nominees (Performer(s) in brackets)	Ref.
2020	Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey & Aaron Raitiere	"I'll Never Love Again" from A Star Is Born (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper)	Dolly Parton and Linda Perry for "Girl in the Movies" from Dumplin' (Dolly Parton) Thom Yorke for "Suspirium" from Suspiria Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Timothy McKenzie and Ilya Salmanzadeh for "Spirit" from The Lion King (Beyoncé) Randy Newman for "The Ballad of the Lonesome Cowboy" from Toy Story 4 (Chris Stapleton)	[34]
2021	Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell	"No Time to Die" from No Time to Die (Billie Eilish)	Andrew Lloyd Webber and Taylor Swift for "Beautiful Ghosts" from Cats (Taylor Swift) Brandi Carlile, Phil and Tim Hanseroth for "Carried Me With You" from Onward (Brandi Carlile) Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for "Into the Unknown" from Frozen II (Idina Menzel and AURORA) Joshuah Brian Campbell and Cynthia Erivo for "Stand Up" from Harriet (Cynthia Erivo)	[35]
2022	Bo Burnham	"All Eyes on Me" from Bo Burnham: Inside (Bo Burnham)	Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for "Agatha All Along" from WandaVision: "ep. 7" (Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez featuring Kathryn Hahn, Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall & Gerald White) Alecia Moore, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for "All I Know So Far" from P!NK: All I Know So Far (P!nk) Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. and Tiara Thomas for "Fight for You" from Judas and the Black Messiah (H.E.R.) Jamie Hartman, Jennifer Hudson and Carole King for "Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)" from Respect (Jennifer Hudson) Sam Ashworth and Leslie Odom Jr. for "Speak Now" from One Night in Miami... (Leslie Odom Jr.)	[36]
2023	Lin-Manuel Miranda	"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto (Carolina Gaitán, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz and Encanto Cast)	Beyoncé Knowles-Carter & Darius Scott Dixson for "Be Alive" from King Richard (Beyoncé) Michael Tucker & Stefani Germanotta for "Hold My Hand" from Top Gun: Maverick (Lady Gaga) Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell for "Nobody Like U" from Turning Red (4*Town, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O'Connell, Josh Levi, Topher Ngo & Grayson Villanueva) Taylor Swift for "Carolina" from Where the Crawdads Sing (Taylor Swift) Angélique Kidjo, Jeremy Lutito & Jessy Wilson for "Keep Rising (The Woman King)" from The Woman King (Jessy Wilson featuring Angélique Kidjo)	[37]
2024	Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell	"What Was I Made For?" from Barbie (Billie Eilish)	Naija Gaston, Ephrem Louis Lopez Jr. & Onika Maraj for "Barbie World" from Barbie (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice featuring Aqua) Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt for "Dance the Night" from Barbie (Dua Lipa) Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt for "I'm Just Ken" from Barbie (Ryan Gosling) Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson, Robyn Fenty & Temilade Openiyi for "Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Rihanna)	[38]
2025	Jon Batiste & Dan Wilson	"It Never Went Away" from American Symphony (Jon Batiste)	Jessie Alexander, Luke Combs & Johnathan Singleton for "Ain't No Love in Oklahoma" for Twisters (Luke Combs) Amy Allen, Shellback & Justin Timberlake for "Better Place" from Trolls Band Together (NSYNC & Justin Timberlake) Dan Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo for "Can't Catch Me Now" from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Olivia Rodrigo) Walter Afanasieff, Charlie Midnight, Kara Talve & Hans Zimmer for "Love Will Survive" from The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Barbra Streisand)	[39]