Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall is the category’s most formally interesting nominee.
Last year I made the mistake of second-guessing the Academy’s recent trend of awarding the biggest selling album in this category.
Few Grammy categories are as easily derided as Best New Artist, which with each passing year continues to push the word “new” to the absolute limits of its meaning.
Patterns, history, tradition. These are often the only tools that showbiz awards prognosticators have at their disposal.