Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by The Recording Academy of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Duke Ellington was the first recipient of the award in 1959 for the Anatomy of a Murder soundtrack.
Henry Mancini won in 1962 for the Breakfast at Tiffany's soundtrack.
Lalo Schifrin won in 1968 for the TV series Mission: Impossible soundtrack.
Paul Simon won in 1969 for The Graduate soundtrack, alongside Dave Grusin.
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name of Robert Traver. Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense attorney.
Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass
Anatomy of a Murder
James Stewart in the film's trailer
Brooks West (left) and James Stewart (right) face one another, as George C. Scott (center) looks on
