Thursday, February 1, 2024

Michelle Obama vs. Bernie Sanders at the Grammy Awards


It's time for one more Grammy Awards nominees post before the ceremony, so here are the final categories from the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.
Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording
Big Tree – Meryl Streep
Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder – William Shatner
The Creative Act: A Way of Being – Rick Rubin
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism – Bernie Sanders
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – Michelle Obama
Barack Obama, who repeated as Outstanding Narrator at the Emmy Awards, isn't the only member of the family nominated at a major awards show. His wife Michelle is nominated for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording at the Grammy Awards for The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times. That should look familiar, since The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, Oprah's televised interview of Michelle Obama, earned a nomination for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special, but lost to Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, as Gold Derby and I predicted. She's competing against Bernie Sanders, Meryl Streep, Rick Rubin, and William Shatner. That's certainly an all-star field!

This is not the first Grammy nomination for either Obama or Sanders, as The Hill reported.
Obama previously won a Grammy Award in the spoken word category for her 2020 bestseller “Becoming.” A year earlier, she made a surprise appearance at the 2019 Grammys to tout the power of music, saying that it “helps us share ourselves.”

It’s not the first time that Sanders has been nominated for a top music prize either. The lawmaker earned a spoken word category nomination in 2018 with actor Mark Ruffalo for “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In,” but the pair lost to Carrie Fisher for the audio book of her memoir “The Princess Diarist.”
I'd say the former First Lady has the advantage over Senator Sanders here, but that doesn't mean she'll win. This is a strong field and any one of them could walk off the stage with the gramophone statuette Sunday night. This ihcludes Rick Rubin, who is a music producer. Most of my readers may not know who he is, but the Recording Academy members do. Remember, electorates matter!

Follow over the jump for Best Music Film.

Best Music Film
Moonage Daydream (David Bowie)
Brett Morgen, video director and video producer
How I'm Feeling Now – Lewis Capaldi
Joe Pearlman, video director; Sam Bridger, Isabel Davis and Alice Rhodes, video producers
Live From Paris, The Big Steppers Tour – Kendrick Lamar
Mike Carson, Dave Free and Mark Ritchie, video directors; Cornell Brown, Debra Davis, Jared Heinke and Jamie Rabineau, video producers
I Am Everything (Little Richard)
Lisa Cortés, video director; Caryn Capotosto, Lisa Cortés, Robert Friedman and Liz Yale Marsh, video producers
Dear Mama (Tupac Shakur)
Allen Hughes, video director; Joshua Garcia, Loren Gomez, James Jenkins and Stef Smith, video producers
Two of these were also nominated at the Emmy Awards. Moonage Daydream earned five nominations, making it the second most nominated documentary at these awards. It won two of them, Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera) and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera). Neither of those surprised me, as I wrote "I think that music nominees have the edge in sound categories, all other things being equal, so I think Moonage Daydream is favored, followed by Love, Lizzo." That certainly turned out the way I expected, so I'm sharing the following image to celebrate the documentary's Emmy Awards.


Congratulations and good luck!

Now for the other Emmy nominee in the field.


Dear Mama earned two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program. It won neither of them, as The 1619 Project won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and The U.S. and the Holocaust won Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program.


One other nominee in this category earned a nomination for Best Music Documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards, I Am Everything. It lost to American Symphony, which has an Oscar nomination for Original Song. I expect it will be nominated at next year's Grammy ceremony.

Based on the awards history, I'm picking Moonage Daydream to win, followed by Dear Mama and I Am Everything. Then again, those are based on the film and television creators and critics. The musicians may have other ideas. Again, electorates matter.

That's it for awards coverage. Stay tuned for Groundhog Day!

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