All three nominations going to animated feature entries this year for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards were all from Disney/Pixar's CARS. The flick's album was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album." Randy Newman and James Taylor got a nod in Best Song Written For A Motion Picture for "Our Town." A Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance nomination went to John Mayer for his rendition of "Route 66," which was used in CARS. The winners will be announced on Feb. 11, 2007, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 surround sound on CBS from 8:00-11:30 pm.
In the Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media category the noms are:
* THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA -- THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBEHarry Gregson-Williams, composerWalt Disney Records
* THE DA VINCI CODEHans Zimmer, composerDecca
* MEMOIRS OF A GEISHAJohn Williams, composerSony Classical
* MUNICHJohn Williams, composerDecca
* PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN -- DEAD MAN'S CHESTHans Zimmer, composerWalt Disney Records
NARINA also got a nom for Best Song Written For A Motion Picture for the song, "Can't Take It In", written & performed by Imogen Heap.
The BABY EINSTEIN series garnered Disney Records nominations for Best Musical Album for children, for "Baby Einstein Meets The Orchestra" and Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for Disney's "Little Einstein's Musical Missions."
GRAMMY ballots for the final round of voting will be mailed to the voting members of The Recording Academy on Dec. 13 and are due back to the accounting firm of Deloitte by Jan. 10 to be tabulated.
John Cossette Prods. will produce the 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards in association with Ken Ehrlich Prods. for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are exec producers, Walter C. Miller is producer/director, Tisha Fein is the coordinating producer, David Wild is the writer and Tzvi Small is supervising producer.
For a complete list of the Grammy nominations, go to www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/49th_Show/list.aspx.
