Batman Forever grabbed the Grammy glory Wednesday as Seal's Kiss From a Rose picked up three major awards, including the coveted Record and Song of the Year Grammies. But their won't be any Oscar double for Batman as under Academy regulations, Kiss For a Rose was not eligible for consideration as it had not been “created specifically for an eligible feature-length motion picture.”
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz's Colors of the Wind, from Pocahontas is still on for the Oscar/Grammy double, however, after winning the Grammy Wednesday for “Song Written for a Motion Picture or For Television”. Colors of the Wind is one of five nominated songs in the Academy's original song category alongside Bruce Springsteen's Dead Man Walking, from the film of the same name; Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, and Robert John Lange's Have You Ever Really Loved a Women from Don Juan DeMarco; Randy Newman's You've Got a Friend from Toy Story; and John Williams and Alan and Marilyn Bergman's Moonlight from Sabrina.
This year the Academy has split the original score category in two, with Oscars being awarded to both dramatic score and musical or comedy score. Nominated in the dramatic category are Apollo 13, Braveheart, Nixon, Il Postino (The Postman), and Sense and Sensibility, while The American President, Pocahontas, Sabrina, Toy Story and Unstrung Heroes will dispute the musical or comedy score category. At the Grammy's it was Hans Zimmer's score for Crimson Tide which won the award for instrumental composition written for a motion picture or television. christopher Pickard
