Will Jack Antonoff Return to Grammy’s Producer of the Year Finals After Last Year’s Snub?

The biggest astonishment of the 2025 Grammy Awards play didn’t hap connected Grammy night, but erstwhile the nominations were announced connected Nov. 8, 2024 and Jack Antonoff was not successful the moving for shaper of the year, non-classical.

He had been nominated successful that class for 5 consecutive years, winning successful the past 3 years. Had helium been nominated again past year, helium would person go the archetypal shaper oregon producing squad to beryllium nominated successful the class six years moving since Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, who were up each twelvemonth from 2001-2006.

Antonoff’s omission was particularly perplexing due to the fact that helium was nominated for medium of the twelvemonth with 2 albums past twelvemonth – Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Sabrina Carpenter’s breakthrough collection, Short N’ Sweet.

One of the large questions going into the 2026 Grammys is whether Antonoff volition instrumentality to the shaper of the year, non-classical finals. Another question is whether helium volition person treble nods for medium of the twelvemonth for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a row. He precise good may, acknowledgment to his engagement with Kendrick Lamar’s GNX (where helium is credited arsenic a shaper connected 11 of the 12 tracks) and Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend (where helium is credited arsenic a shaper connected 9 of the 12 tracks).

Antonoff archetypal received treble medium of the twelvemonth nods 2 years agone for Swift’s Midnights (which won) and Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.

Prior to that, helium had been nominated for medium of the twelvemonth six times, but ne'er with much than 1 medium successful a fixed year. His erstwhile medium of the twelvemonth nominees were with his alt-pop trio fun.’s Some Nights (2013), Swift’s 1989 (2016, which won), Lorde’s Melodrama (2018), del Rey’s Norman F***ing Rockwell (2020), and Swift’s Folklore (2021, which won) and Evermore (2022).

Thus, Antonoff has received 12 medium of the twelvemonth nominations and could precise good up that full to 14 erstwhile this year’s nominations are announced.

Antonoff’s nonaccomplishment to onshore a motion for shaper of the twelvemonth (non-classical) ...