If their song for Toy Story 5 lands an Oscar nod, it would be the first for both songwriters.
Longtime collaborators Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff have each won three Grammys in songwriting categories, but they have yet to win a Grammy for a song they wrote together. That could change with the new “I Knew It, I Knew You” from Toy Story 5, which could land the award for best song written for visual media.
Swift’s first two songwriting Grammys came in the category of best country song. She won in 2010 for co-writing “White Horse” with Liz Rose and in 2012 for “Mean,” which she wrote by herself. Her third songwriting win came in 2013 – best song written for visual media for co-writing “Safe & Sound” from The Hunger Games with T Bone Burnett and John Paul White and Joy Williams of The Civil Wars.
Antonoff’s first songwriting Grammy in 2013 was song of the year for co-writing the fun. featuring Janelle Monáe smash “We Are Young” with his fun. bandmates Andrew Dost and Nate Reuss and their producer Jeff Bhasker. His next two songwriting Grammys came in genre categories – best rock song in 2019 for co-writing St. Vincent’s “Masseduction” with the artist, and best rap song earlier this year for co-writing the Kendrick Lamar featuring Lefty Gunplay hit “tv off” with Lamar, Larry Jayy, Dijon McFarlane, Sean Momberger, Sounwave and Kamasi Washington.
While Swift and Antonoff have yet to share a songwriting Grammy, they have shared four Grammys in other categories. Antonoff won album of the year as a producer on Swift’s 1989, Folklore and Midnights and best pop vocal album for Midnights. (Swift’s win for 1989 made her the first woman to win album of the year twice as a lead artist, a momentous achievement that led to the touching backstage photo shown above.)
As noted at the outset, Swift and Antonoff are tied with three Grammys each in songwriting categories. They’re also tied for total number of Grammys won to date (14 each) and number of song of the year nominations (eight each, which is currently the record.)
While Swift and Antonoff have yet to win a Grammy for a song they wrote together, they have been nominated for three such songs – “I Don’t Want to Live Forever” from Fifty Shades Darker (best song written for visual media, 2018), “Anti-Hero” (song of the year, 2024) and “Fortnight” (song of the year, 2025).
This would be Swift’s fifth Grammy nomination for best song written for visual media; Antonoff’s second. In addition to the aforementioned “Safe & Sound” and “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever,” Swift was nominated in the category for co-writing “Beautiful Ghosts” with Andrew Lloyd Webber from the much-derided film adaptation of Cats (2021) and for writing “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing (2023).
“I Knew It, I Knew You” could also be in line for an Oscar nomination for best original song. Randy Newman was nominated in that category with a song from each of the first four Toy Story films, an unprecedented feat. (He won for one of them, “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3.) This would be the first Oscar nomination for both Swift and Antonoff.
