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‘Twisters,’ ‘Inside Out 2’ Lead a Wide-Open Field for Grammy Visual Media Categories
'Twisters' and 'Inside Out 2' are strong candidates for the 2025 visual media Grammys, but all bets are off in a post-'Barbenheimer' year.
Likely composers in the score category include Andrea Datzman, whose whimsical music for the billion-dollar-grossing “Inside Out 2” instantly catapulted her into the front rank of Pixar composers; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ techno-infused “Challengers”; Hans Zimmer’s mystical “Dune: Part Two”; and a pair of Oscar-nominated scores from late 2023, Laura Karpman’s jazzy “American Fiction” and Robbie Robertson’s evocative “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which was released just weeks after the legendary songwriter for the Band and longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator passed away at the age of 80. This year, the widely lauded “Shōgun” (with music by Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Nick Chuba) could qualify, along with two recent Emmy winners: Carlos Rafael Rivera’s “Lessons in Chemistry” and Jeff Toyne’s “Palm Royale.” The Grammys’ instrumental arrangement category is another possibility for these composers, as many enter their title themes as arrangements in case they’re bumped by more popular titles in the score category. Those entered include “Star Wars Outlaws” by Wilbert Roget II; “Spider-Man 2” by John Paesano; “Tales of Kenzera: ZAU” by Nainita Desai; “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III” by Walter Mair; “Concord” by Daniel Pemberton; “Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown” by Gareth Coker and Mentrix; “Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora” by Pinar Toprak; and “Assassin’s Creed: Mirage” by Brendan Angelides.
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