The winners of the 2021 Grammy Awards for stage and screen recordings were announced by Best New Artist nominee Chika on March 14 during a virtual Premiere Ceremony hosted by R&B nominee Jhené Aiko. The award for Best Musical Theater Album went to the 2019 Broadway cast recording of Jagged Little Pill, accepted by orchestrator Tom Kitt, and the award for Best Opera Recording went to the cast album of the 2019 Metropolitan Opera production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, accepted by principal soloist Angel Blue, who sang Bess. Below is the cast of Jagged Little Pill singing “Head over Feet.”
Among the screen music honorees were Hildur Guðnadóttir for her soundtrack to the 2019 film Joker and Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell for their song “No Time to Die” (which you can watch below) from the upcoming Bond film No Time to Die. Other films honored include the 2019 feature Jojo Rabbit for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and the 2019 documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice for Best Music Film.
Finally, the 2019 compilation It’s Such a Good Feeling: The Best of Mister Rogers, featuring music from Fred Rogers’ long-running children’s television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, won for Best Historical Album. Below is Rogers singing “Good Feeling” on his show.