The music industry's biggest names have gathered for the 68th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.
Spielberg received the Grammy for best music film category for producing the documentary Music by John Williams, with the trophy handed out during the non-televised premiere ceremony.
Golden from KPop Demon Hunters won song written for visual media at the premiere ceremony, marking the first time a K-pop act has won a Grammy.
Songwriters delivered their acceptance speech in both English and Korean, highlighting the song's bilingual appeal.
The Premiere Ceremony, a pre-telecast show held at the adjacent Peacock Theater on Sunday (Monday AEDT), began with musician and host Darren Criss setting the scene - giving out the first award of the day, for best pop/duo group performance to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for Defying Gravity. They were not present to accept the award.
An impressive 86 Grammys will be handed out at the pre-broadcast.
Yungblud won his first Grammy for rock performance for his cover of Black Sabbath's Changes (live from Villa Park), which he performed at Ozzy Osbourne's final show. Hardcore band Turnstile also won their first Grammy for rock album and later, metal performance.
"To Baltimore, thank you, we love you," said frontman Brendan Yates.
The Cure won alternative music performance but were unable to attend as they were attending the funeral of Perry Archangelo Bamonte, the Cure's longtime guitarist and keyboardist, who died last month.
FKA twigs won her first Grammy for best dance/electronic album for EUSEXUA.
"I didn't expect to come up here. I was just so happy to be nominated," she said in her speech.
"Thank you so much - wow."
"All the Latino kids in the hood watching, anything is possible," said rapper Lefty Gunplay, who also won his first Grammy for rap performance for his role on Kendrick Lamar's TV Off.
It is a dramatically different tone than last year.
The 2025 award show was completely reimagined and refocused to relief efforts following the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires.
In 2026, the focus has been placed once again on the music, where Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny and more will go head-to-head during the televised ceremony.
The energy was high from minute one at the Premiere Ceremony: Earth, Wind & Fire gave a groovy opening performance of Shining Star with some help from Israel Houghton, Lila Ike, Grace Potter, Maggie Rose and Trombone Shorty.
Following the Premiere Ceremony, comedian Trevor Noah will host the main show for a sixth and final year and history could be made when some of the biggest names in music gather.
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