Jack Antonoff Picks Up One More 2025 Grammy Nomination, Thanks to Last-Minute Add

The Recording Academy awarded Jack Antonoff one additional 2025 Grammy nomination this week – as one of 11 engineers on Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, which is nominated for best engineered album, non-classical. This is Antonoff’s first nomination in an engineering category and brings his career nominations total to an even 30.

Final-round Grammy voting ended on Jan. 3, so Antonoff’s name didn’t appear on the ballot in that category, but he will take home a Grammy on Sunday (Feb. 2) if the album wins in that category.

Antonoff has five other nominations this year – record of the year for producing the Taylor Swift/Post Malone collab “Fortnight,” two for song of the year for co-writing “Fortnight” and Carpenter’s “Please Please Please,” and two for album of the year for his contributions to Short N’ Sweet and Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.

Antonoff’s 2024-25 Grammy season got off to a surprisingly rough start. His failure to land a nomination for producer of the year, non-classical, a category he had won the last three years running, was widely considered the biggest snub in this year’s nominations – and is hard to reconcile with his bounty of nominations in other marquee categories. He’s the only producer with credits on two album of the year nominees this year. It appears that the members of the National Craft Nominating Committee, which selected the five nominees for producer of the year, non-classical, just decided that Antonoff has been rewarded enough in this category, at least for now.

The 67th Grammy Awards Rules & Guidelines handbook says “the first round of voting [in this category] is in the hands of the general voting membership via the first ballot. The second round of voting, however, takes place in a national craft nominating committee. The top 30 selections from the general voting membership…appear on the ballot for the national craft nominating committees, made up of 25-35 voting members representing all the chapters, to vote by confidential ballot to select the five nominations.”

Antonoff’s six nominations this year are evenly split between his work with Swift and Carpenter – three for work with each artist. Over the course of his career, he has received 11 nominations specifically for his work with Swift; six with fun., the pop trio in which he rose to fame; four with Lana Del Rey; three with Carpenter; two with St. Vincent; and one apiece with Lorde and Zayn. (The former One Direction star teamed with Swift for the duet “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from Fifty Shades Darker, which was nominated for best song written for visual media.)

By category, Antonoff has received 10 album of the year nominations; six for song of the year; five for producer of the year, non-classical; three for record of the year; two for best pop vocal album; and one each for best new artist, best pop duo/group performance, best song written for visual media, best rock song and best alternative music album.

Antonoff, 40, has won 11 Grammys.

Here’s the updated list of nominations for best engineered album, non-classical. The artist’s name at the end of each listing is shown just for identification purposes.

Algorithm
Dernst Emile II, Michael B. Hunter, Jordan Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Rachel Keen, John Kercy, Charles Moniz & Todd Robinson, engineers; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer (Lucky Daye)

Cyan Blue
Jack Emblem, Jack Rochon & Charlotte Day Wilson, engineers; Chris Gehringer, mastering engineer (Charlotte Day Wilson)

Deeper Well
Craig Alvin, Shawn Everett, Mai Leisz, Todd Lombardo, John Rooney, Konrad Snyder & Daniel Tashian, engineers; Greg Calbi, mastering engineer (Kacey Musgraves)

Empathogen
Beatriz Artola, Zach Brown, Oscar Cornejo, Chris Greatti, Mitch McCarthy, Adam Schoeller & Willow Smith, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (WILLOW)

i/o
Tchad Blake, Oli Jacobs, Katie May, Dom Shaw & Mark “Spike” Stent, engineers; Matt Colton, mastering engineer (Peter Gabriel)

Short n’ Sweet
Jack Antonoff, Bryce Bordone, Julian Bunetta, Serban Ghenea, Jeff Gunnell, Oli Jacobs, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jack Manning, Manny Marroquin, John Ryan & Laura Sisk, engineers; Nathan Dantzler & Ruairi O’Flaherty, mastering engineers (Sabrina Carpenter)

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