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Media Casualty Month: Brian Williams, Rosie, Jon Stewart, Steve Kroft– Who’s Next?

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Media Casualty Month: Brian Williams, Rosie, Jon Stewart, Steve Kroft– Who’s Next?

Now is the winter of our discontent. In short order, the New York media world has been rocked by changes and scandals that are churning the landscape.

The biggest is Brian Williams, suspended without pay from NBC for six months. You think you’ll see him again in August? I doubt it. Not on “Nightly News.” There’s no way to re-establish his position of trust. My guess: Lester Holt holds the show for as long as he can. This gives NBC and Comcast a chance to figure out who anchors at the desk starting right after Labor Day.

Here’s NBC News President Deborah Turness’s memo to the staff:

‘All,
We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as Managing Editor and Anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months. The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute Anchor the NBC Nightly News.
Our review, which is being led by Richard Esposito working closely with NBCUniversal General Counsel Kim Harris, is ongoing, but I think it is important to take you through our thought process in coming to this decision.
While on Nightly News on Friday, January 30, 2015, Brian misrepresented events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003. It then became clear that on other occasions Brian had done the same while telling that story in other venues. This was wrong and completely inappropriate for someone in Brian’s position.
In addition, we have concerns about comments that occurred outside NBC News while Brian was talking about his experiences in the field.
As Managing Editor and Anchor of Nightly News, Brian has a responsibility to be truthful and to uphold the high standards of the news division at all times.
Steve Burke, Pat Fili and I came to this decision together. We felt it would have been wrong to disregard the good work Brian has done and the special relationship he has forged with our viewers over 22 years. Millions of Americans have turned to him every day, and he has been an important and well-respected part of our organization.
As I’m sure you understand, this was a very hard decision. Certainly there will be those who disagree. But we believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action.
This has been a difficult time. But NBC News is bigger than this moment. You work so hard and dedicate yourselves each and every day to the important work of bringing trusted, credible news to our audience. Because of you, your loyalty, your dedication, NBC News is an organization we can — and should — all be proud of. We will get through this together.
Steve Burke asked me to share the following message.
“This has been a painful period for all concerned and we appreciate your patience while we gathered the available facts. By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News. His actions are inexcusable and this suspension is severe and appropriate. Brian’s life’s work is delivering the news. I know Brian loves his country, NBC News and his colleagues. He deserves a second chance and we are rooting for him. Brian has shared his deep remorse with me and he is committed to winning back everyone’s trust.”
Deborah’

Plus: Rosie O’Donnell leaves “The View” on Thursday. Funny, not a peep out of Barbara Walters.
Then there’s Jon Stewart exiting “The Daily Show.” It’s not because his movie did so well. Stewart is obviously pissed that Stephen Colbert, who used to work for him, was chosen to succeed David Letterman. Stewart should have gotten that job. He can write his own ticket, and he will.
And then Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes,” dragged through the tabloids with family problems. He’s the captain of the biggest news show on TV. Who’s next to fall? Stay tuned…

Rosie O’Donnell Explains Why She’s Leaving The View (See Video): “I’m Minimizing My Stress…Lots of Stuff Going on at Home”

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Rosie O’Donnell Explains Why She’s Leaving The View (See Video): “I’m Minimizing My Stress…Lots of Stuff Going on at Home”

Rosie O’Donnell will not be talking about leaving “The View” on the show. She says in a video posted to YouTube that her last day is Thursday “and then I’ll be watching at home.” She says she’s “minimizing my stress…”

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New TV Version of “Uncle Buck” Will Have a Different Spin: All African American Characters

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New TV Version of “Uncle Buck” Will Have a Different Spin: All African American Characters

EXCLUSIVE Somewhere in heaven I do think John Candy and John Hughes would approve. I am told that the new “Uncle Buck” TV pilot calls for something different– all African American actors to play the roles.

That’s right: Uncle Buck will be black. So will his family. Buck Russell is listed in casting notices that go out today as late 20s to early 30s, African American, “he’s a wild and free-wheeling force of nature who has managed to lose every job and every girlfriend he’s ever had, but who still flies through life by the seat of his pants, never knowing what tomorrow will bring.”

It’s the role of a lifetime for any actor, but especially at this moment when diversity is everything. Black or white, the new Uncle Buck will have a serious brother who has three kids. Buck, of course, corrupts them when he loses his latest job and becomes their manny.

Will Packer, Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley are exec producers for this Universal Television/ABC sitcom. The original “Uncle Buck” was a hit movie in 1989, and a failed TV series in 1990.

So who should play Uncle Buck? Kevin Hart? Hannibal Burress? Donald Glover? Doesn’t this sound like a JB Smoove character? Is Keenan Thompson too obvious?

REVIEW Fifty Shades of Grey: One Word Would Have Lifted it from C Movie to B Movie

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REVIEW Fifty Shades of Grey: One Word Would Have Lifted it from C Movie to B Movie

One word could have lifted “Fifty Shades of Grey” from a C Movie to a B Movie. And the word is “red.” As fans of the book may know by now, author E.L. James refused to let director Sam Taylor-Johnson end the film version of her turgid prose with the word “red.” In the book and the movie, “red” is a safe word for the couple engaged in S&M antics. It means stop.

After two hours of a mostly witless endeavor in very lite S&M, this movie peters to an ellipsis. And when Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele puts her hand up to Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) she could have saved the whole thing with that word “red.” Instead, apparently, James insisted on having Dakota just say “Stop.” It was a huge mistake.

At the screening tonight at AMC Lincoln Center, most of the audience– fans of the book–shouted surprise when they realized the movie had indeed ended. It ends nowhere, without even a to be continued. I suppose people will see it one day on its own– no sequel is guaranteed– and wonder what all the fuss was about. I sure did. The book is largely unreadable, so I left it to the director (of “Nowhere Boy”) to make something scintillating. After all, the book is about a 27 year old billionaire who will only tie up and torture his dates. But “Fifty Shades of Grey” is mostly talk and not so much action.

Let’s leave alone the obvious plot holes and implausibilities. Well, wait: my favorite one is that Christian offers Anastasia a long detailed contract that will permit him to abuse her. It’s very well typed. And all I could think was, who typed it? His lawyer? His secretary? Christian himself? The third choice seems far fetched since, even though he’s a business magnate, he doesn’t seem to do anything other than preen or pull off his tee-shirt.

The best lines, I can’t reprint here. Suffice to say they each include the F word. There are three of them, and they are as good as Kevin Costner telling Jeanne Tripplehorn “I’ll breathe for you” in “Waterworld” or Ben Affleck’s “Gobble gobble” in “Gigli.” Okay, one is “I want to f— you into next week.” The other is “I am fifty shades of f—ed.” The third I actually can’t say, but you’ll hear it.

Anyway, I digress: the first weekend of “Fifty Shades” will be enormous at the box office. The book’s fans want to see it, regardless. But most men will bridle, and none will return. There are more than a few unintentional laughs. There’s nothing campy enough on the level of “Showgirls.” This movie plays too earnestly, like a Jacqueline Susann romance with some Cinemax sex thrown in to make it contemporary.

None of the actors are at fault. In fact, I liked Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, although he seems too young for the role. We do see a lot of Dakota, the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. I don’t think Sonny Crockett will be too pleased that America is about to become well versed in his daughter’s nipples. (I doubt Mrs. Dornan will be too pleased either.) Neither actor eats in the movie in character, and you can see why. They are lean and mean.

In a big cast there are only two other name actors: Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden and the wonderful Jennifer Ehle. Otherwise, the rest of the cast looks like it was hired for minimum wage in Canada. You will not recognize a single face. Maybe for the sequel they can look in the Players Guide.

As for the S&M, there’s an inappropriate joke here you can attach to “12 Years a Slave.” In that movie, Patsy suffered much more and lived to tell about it. Anastasia is barely whisked when she cries “uncle.” It’s more ‘see my red room, look at all these devices.’ There’s some spanking but not much more than a 2 year old used to get for disobeying a parent.

Still there may be some who find the tepid sex and torture scenes too much. I asked Dornan, an affable guy quite unlike his character, why the movie was rated R for “unusual behavior.” He responded that whatever it was, he didn’t enjoy doing it. That much is obvious.

And then there’s the “red” issue. Two hours sludge by, and there’s nary a bit of wit. (The only glimmer of it is in the contract negotiation scene. You may hear some terms rarely heard in a legal office.) But the setup of the safety word is left hanging. (So is Dakota, but that’s a different story.) We finally wind to the end–although you wouldn’t know it because the arc of the screenplay is shapeless. But here’s this moment, and when it happens, you realize immediately that if the movie had ended the director’s way, you might have had a different opinion.

PS Excellent soundtrack. Beyonce will have a new hit with her slow version of “Crazy in Love.” It’s like her unplugged “Layla.” And Annie Lennox opens the film with her scary fine version of “I Put A Spell on You,” right off the Grammys.

Grammy Ratings Slide by 1.4 Million Young Viewers– Average Performers’ Age Was Over 40

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Grammy Ratings Slide by 1.4 Million Young Viewers– Average Performers’ Age Was Over 40

The Grammy ratings were a bust in the key demo of 18-49. Last year they scored a 9.9 in the demo. This year it was 8.5. That’s a huge dip.Total viewers this year were 25 million. Last year: over 28 million. So three million people overall tuned out. Half of them were young people who want to see their pop stars.

Well, I’m an oldie, certainly. But even I noticed that most of the performers were over 40. Madonna, Paul McCartney, AC/DC, Annie Lennox, Tom Jones, Jeff Lynne. You had Smokey, Stevie, and Nile Rodgers, not to mention Jamie Foxx. And LLCoolJ, so unhip and so uncool, continues to host as if anyone in the world besides CBS execs want him to.

I enjoyed the show– but I’m from the generation that applauded those artists. I don’t know what I would think if I were 16 and saw Madonna. I give her credit, but her act seems like Ann Corio when she used to present burlesque 20 years after it was over.

A big problem is that with a few exceptions– Katy Perry, Taylor Swift– today’s artists are manufactured. Ken Ehrlich is trying to find the best performances. They come from an older, authentic group of stars.

Why didn’t Beyonce sing a pop song in the middle of the show? Why didn’t Rihanna, whose voice is real and just great? Why were Common and John Legend not at the opening, not close, of the show? And how did ancient rockers AC/DC merit the opening spot? They were atrocious, and old old old. If I’d been a kid, seeing them, I would have turned the show off. Why didn’t Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani open?

I don’t blame Ken Ehrlich. He has network pressures to deal with. But with all those stars, and a loss of 3 million viewers, maybe some questions will be asked within CBS.

LIVE Rosie O’Donnell Makes No Mention of Leaving The View During Broadcast

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LIVE Rosie O’Donnell Makes No Mention of Leaving The View During Broadcast

UPDATE No mention of Rosie’s situation during the whole hour of “The View.” The show ended with a plug for a Disney movie.

EARLIER Rosie O’Donnell and crew just walked onto the set of the View live, to a standing ovation and a thunderous crowd.

Rosie first talked about making documentaries, and showing hers at the Athena Festival over the weekend. Her doc appears on HBO this weekend. Rosie has become an advocate for women’s heart health and talks about it in the special– amid jokes.

The ladies stalled talking about Rosie’s news over the weekend that she’s leaving The View, and that she’s split from her wife Michelle Rounds. Instead, they chatted about Brian Williams’s scandal at NBC. I liked that Rosie reminded everyone that “the news is owned by five corporations.” She also advocated net neutrality.

Commercial break– and no mention of Rosie’s news. In fact no mention of the exits in the first 23 minutes…Keep refreshing…

Mel Gibson to Direct Jewish Actor, Andrew Garfield, in New Movie Despite 2006 Scandal

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Mel Gibson to Direct Jewish Actor, Andrew Garfield, in New Movie Despite 2006 Scandal

This should be interesting. There are reports that Mel Gibson is making a deal with LionsGate to direct a new movie called “Hacksaw Ridge.” The actor set to lead the cast is said to be Andrew Garfield, who most recently starred in of two “Amazing Spider Man” movies.

Garfield is currently shooting “Silence” with Martin Scorsese. He also happens to be Jewish. He is completely Jewish, too, with a lovely family whom I’ve met. This could pose a problem for Gibson, who is now more famous for making anti-Semitic remarks– and having a father who is an avowed Holocaust denier and anti Semite– than being a director or an actor.

In 2006, after being arrested for a DUI in Malibu, Gibson told the arresting office– who was Jewish– “Fucking Jews… the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. Are you a Jew?”

Thus began an explosive chapter in Gibson’s life. He owns a church in Malibu, not recognized by the Catholic archdiocese, that doesn’t believe in the pope or what’s known as Vatican II. The members of Gibson’s Holy Family church believe the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. Gibson’s AP Reilly Foundation maintains the church, with a $70 million tax free war chest.

Gibson’s father, Hutton Gibson, was initially written about by Christopher Noxon in the New York Times Magazine around the time Gibson released his “Passion of the Christ,” a movie criticized for being anti-Semitic. Hutton Gibson has openly questioned “how the Nazis could have disposed of 6 million bodies.”

From Noxon’s article:
“Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body,” he said. “It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?”

Across the table, Joye [Gibson’s wife] suddenly looked up from her plate. […] She had kept quiet most of the day, so it was a surprise when she cheerfully piped in. “There weren’t even that many Jews in all of Europe,” she said.

“Anyway, there were more after the war than before,” Hutton added.

The entire catastrophe was manufactured, said Hutton, as part of an arrangement between Hitler and “financiers” to move Jews out of Germany. Hitler “had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs,” he said.

Whether Garfield has actually agreed to be in the movie remains unknown. Producers may be using his name as bait. Two years ago Robert DeNiro backed out of being in a film with Gibson after his name was announced. He’d sworn never to work with Gibson not just because of his anti Semitic rants but because of his severely racist ones, too.

Kanye West Attacks Beck, Grammy Awards Over Beyonce Not Winning: “We’re Not Gonna Play Anymore”

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Kanye West Attacks Beck, Grammy Awards Over Beyonce Not Winning: “We’re Not Gonna Play Anymore”

Kanye West WAS trying to get on stage to stop Beck as he accepted his Grammy Award. Prince actually waved him off. He went crazy on E! during an interview afterwards. A few years ago, Kanye actually did get to the mic to attack Taylor Swift when she won Album of the Year. Kanye says that Beck should be a gentleman and give Beyonce his Grammy.

Kanye: “All I know is if the Grammys want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain’t gonna play with them no more. ‘Flawless,’ Beyoncé video. Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé, and at this point, we tired of it..”

“Because what happens is, when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day and they listen to that Beyoncé album and they feel like it takes them to another place.”

“Then they do this whole promotional event, they’ll run the music over somebody’s speech, the artist, because they want commercial advertising. Like, no, we not playing with them no more. By the way, I got my wife, my daughter and my clothing line, so I’m not going to do nothing to put my daughter at risk but I am here to fight for creativity. That’s the reason why I didn’t say anything tonight. But you all know what it meant when ‘Ye walks on the stage.”

Grammys: Sam Smith Wins Best Song, Best Record Even Though It Was “Stolen” From Tom Petty Hit

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Grammys: Sam Smith Wins Best Song, Best Record Even Though It Was “Stolen” From Tom Petty Hit

Sam Smith just won Best Song and Best Record for “Stay with Me,” his big summer hit. Only one problem: after Grammy voting closed it was revealed that “Stay with Me” was interpolated from Tom Petty’s classic FM hit “I Won’t Back Down,” written with ELO’s Jeff Lynne. Smith and co. said they never heard of Petty’s song. But how is that possible?

Petty and Lynne are now listed as co-writers, and are receiving royalties. The songs are nearly identical, especially in the chorus. But when Smith took the stage, he and his co-writers didn’t mention this. On an otherwise pretty scandal free Grammy night full of good winners, this is a mistake.

Of course, this has happened before– and recently. Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” turned out to be lifted, instrumentally, from a guitar record of Joe Satriani’s. A settlement occurred, and “Viva La Vida” went on to get lots of awards. Crazy.

Grammys: Album of the Year Goes to Beck (Full List of Winners)

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Grammys: Album of the Year Goes to Beck (Full List of Winners)

Beck, who’s really been out of it for some time, has won the Grammy for Album of the Year. His collection is called “Morning Phase,” and it won this afternoon for Best Rock Album, as well. Beck pulled off quite a coup, beating Beyonce and Sam Smith. Kanye West almost interrupted Beck’s win, then thought better of it.

All the awards were almost secondary to the show itself, which full of music and lots of terrific performances. Even the misses worked. You can quibble about the mistakes, and the weird off topic things like Enrique Iglesias giving Song of the Year. But somehow the show represented the best of pop music of all kinds for 2014.

That Sam Smith won for Best Song after it turned out he nicked it from Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne– who now get songwriting credit and royalties– is a sad state of affairs, however.

Highlights: Paul McCartney-Rihanna-Kanye were lovely. Annie Lennox was perfection. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett a class act. Jeff Lynne and Ed Sheeran were so much fun. Madonna is still a great show-woman. I really liked Brandy Clark and Dwight Yoakam.

Headscratcher: Kanye’s “Only One” sung in darkness. Katy Perry’s turgid ballad. And the cutting off of Tom Jones and Jessie J on what could have been an outstanding version of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling.”

Here’s the full list of winners:

 

Album of the Year

Beck, Morning Phase — WINNER
Beyonce, Beyonce
Ed Sheeran, x
Sam Smith, In the Lonely Hour
Pharrell Williams, Girl

Best New Artist

Bastille
Iggy Azalea
Brandy Clark
Haim
Sam Smith — WINNER

Best R&B Performance

“Drunk In Love,” Beyoncé ft. Jay Z — WINNER
“New Flame,” Chris Brown ft. Usher & Rick Ross
“It’s Your World,” Jennifer Hudson ft. R. Kelly
“Like This,” Ledisi
“Good Kisser,” Usher

Best Rock Album

Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams
Morning Phase, Beck — WINNER
Turn Blue, The Black Keys
Hypnotic Eye, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Songs of Innocence, U2

Best Pop Solo Performance

“All of Me,” John Legend
“Chandelier,” Sia
“Stay With Me,” Sam Smith
“Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift
“Happy,” Pharrell Williams — WINNER

Best Country Album

Riser, Dierks Bentley
The Outsiders, Eric Church
The Way I’m Livin’, Lee Ann Womack
12 Stories, Brandy Clark
Platinum, Miranda Lambert — WINNER

Best Pop Vocal Album

Ghost Stories, Coldplay
Bangerz, Miley Cyrus
My Everything, Ariana Grande
Prism, Katy Perry
x, Ed Sheeran
In the Lonely Hour, Sam Smith — WINNER

Record of the Year

“Fancy,” Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
“Chandelier,” Sia
“Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith — WINNER
“Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift
“All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor

Song of the Year

“Chandelier,” Sia
“All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor
“Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift
“Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith — WINNER
“Take Me to Church,” Hozier

Best Rap Album

The New Classic, Iggy Azalea
Because the Internet, Childish Gambino
Nobody’s Smiling, Common
The Marshall Mathers LP2, Eminem — WINNER
Oxymoron, ScHoolboy Q
Blacc Hollywood, Wiz Khalifa

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Fancy,” Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX
“A Sky Full of Stars,” Coldplay
“Say Something,” A Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera — WINNER
“Bang Bang,” Ariana Grande, Jessie J & Nicki Minaj
“Dark Horse,” Katy Perry ft. Juicy J

Best Rap Performance

“3005,” Childish Gambino
“0 to 100/The Catch Up,” Drake
“Rap God,” Eminem
“i,” Kendrick Lamar — WINNER
“All I Need Is You,” Lecrae

Best Alternative Music Album

This Is All Yours, alt-J
Reflektor, Arcade Fire
Melophobia, Cage the Elephant
St. Vincent, St. Vincent — WINNER
Lazaretto, Jack White

Best Rock Song

“Ain’t It Fun,” Paramore — WINNER
“Blue Moon,” Beck
“Fever,” The Black Keys
“Gimme Something Good,” Ryan Adams
“Lazaretto,” Jack White

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

“Blak Majik,” Common ft. Jhené Aiko
“The Monster,” Eminem ft. Rihanna — WINNER
“Tuesday,” I Love Makonnen ft. Drake
“Studio,” ScHoolboy Q ft. BJ The Chicago Kid
“Bound 2,” Kanye West & Charlie Wilson

Best Rap Song

“Anaconda,” Nicki Minaj
“Bound 2,” Kanye West & Charlie Wilson
“i,” Kendrick Lamar — WINNER
“We Dem Boyz,” Wiz Khalifa
“0 to 100/The Catch Up,” Drake

Best Country Song

“American Kids,” Kenny Chesney
“Automatic,” Miranda Lambert
“Give Me Back My Hometown,” Eric Church
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” Glen Campbell — WINNER
“Meanwhile Back at Mama’s,” Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

“Gentle On My Mind,” The Band Perry — WINNER
“Somethin’ Bad,” Miranda Lambert with Carrie Underwood
“Day Drinking,” Little Big Town
“Meanwhile Back At Mama’s,” Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill
“Raise ‘Em Up,” Keith Urban ft. Eric Church

Best Country Solo Performance

“Give Me Me Back My Hometown,” Eric Church
“Invisible,” Hunter Hayes
“Automatic,” Miranda Lambert
“Something In the Water,” Carrie Underwood — WINNER
“Cop Car,” Keith Urban

Best Urban Contemporary Album

Sail Out, Jhene Aiko
Beyonce, Beyonce
X, Chris Brown
Mali Is, Mali Music
G I R L, Pharrell Williams — WINNER

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Syro, Aphex Twin — WINNER
While (1, Deadmaus
Nabuma Rubberband, Little Dragon
Do It Again, Röyksopp & Robyn
Damage Control, Mat Zo

Best Dance Recording

“Never Say Never,” Basement Jaxx
“Rather Be,” Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne — WINNER
“F for You,” Disclosure ft. Mary J. Blige
“I Got U,” Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones
“Faded,” Zhu

Best Latin Pop Album

Tangos, Ruben Blades — WINNER
Elypse, Camila
Raiz, Lila Downs, Niña Pastori & Soledad Pastorutti
Loco de Amor, Juanes
Gracias Por Estar Aqui, Marco Antonio Solis

Grammy Latin Nominations Cast a Wide Net

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

American Hustle
Guardians of the Galaxy
Frozen — WINNER
Get On Up: The James Brown Story
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Music Video

“We Exist,” Arcade Fire
“Turn Down for What,” DJ Snake & Lil Jon
“Chandelier,” Sia
“Happy,” Pharrell Williams — WINNER
“The Golden Age,” Woodkid ft. Max Richter

Best Music Film

Beyoncé & Jay Z: On The Run Tour, Beyoncé & Jay Z
Ghost Stories, Coldplay
20 Feet From Stardom, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer & Judith Hill — WINNER
Metallica: Through The Never, Metallica
The Truth About Love Tour: Live From Melbourne, Pink

Best Reggae Album

Fly Rasta, Ziggy Marley — WINNER
Back on the Controls, Lee “Scratch” Perry
Full Frequency, Sean Paul
Out of Many, One Music, Shaggy,
The Reggae Power, Sly & Robbie & Spicy Chocolate,
Amid the Noise and the Haste, Soja

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Cheek to Cheek, Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett — WINNER
Sending You a Little Christmas, Johnny Mathis
Nostalgia, Annie Lennox
Partners, Barbra Streisand
Night Songs, Barry Manilow

Best Americana Album

The River & The Thread, Rosanne Cash — WINNER
Terms of My Surrener, John Hiatt
Bluesamericana, Keb’ Mo’
A Dotted Line, Nickel Creek
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Sturgill Simpson

Best Spoken Word Album

Actors Anonymous, James Franco
A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America, John Waters
A Fighting Chance, Elizabeth Warren
Diary of a Mad Diva, Joan Rivers — WINNER
We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement, Inspiration and the Power of Song, Gloria Gaynor

Joan Rivers & 5 More Posthumous Grammy Award Nominees

Best Gospel Album

Help, Erica Campbell — WINNER
Amazing, Ricky Dillard & New G
Withholding Nothing: Live, William McDowell
Forever Yours, Smokie Norful
Vintage Worship, Anita Wilson

Best Rock Performance

“Gimme Something Good,” Ryan Adams
“Do I Wanna Know?”, Arctic Monkeys
“Blue Moon,” Beck
“Fever,” The Black Keys
“Lazaretto,” Jack White — WINNER

Best Metal Performance

“Neon Knights,” Anthrax
“High Road,” Mastodon
“Heartbreaker,” Motörhead
“The Negative One,” Slipknot
“The Last In Line,” Tenacious D — WINNER

Best R&B Song

“Drunk In Love,” Beyonce ft. Jay Z — WINNER
“Good Kisser,” Usher
“New Flame,” Chris Brown ft. Usher & Rick Ross
“Options (Wolfjames Version),” Luke James ft. Rick Ross
“The Worst,” Jhené Aiko

Best R&B Album

Islander, Bernhoft
Lift Your Spirit, Aloe Blacc
Love, Marriage & Divorce, Toni Braxton & Babyface — WINNER
Black Radio 2, Robert Glasper Experiment
Give The People What They Want, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

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