MOTs Score Grammy Nominations

You don’t have to be a musician to be nominated for a Grammy Award.

This year’s nominees include several Members of the Tribe, including Jerry Seinfeld, Tiffany Haddish, Rachel Maddow and Spike Jonze, in categories that reflect their particular talents.

Seinfeld and Haddish are competing in the Best Comedy Album category for “23 Hours to Kill” and “Black Mitzvah,” respectively. It’s Haddish’s second nod: she was previously nominated for Best Spoken Word Album for “The Last Black Unicorn” in 2018.

Maddow’s nomination for the audio version of her bestseller “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, And the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth” is her second as well, having scored a Best Spoken-Word Album in 2013 for “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.”

Director Spike Jonze (né Adam Spiegel) is in the running for Best Music Film for his “Beastie Boys Story,” opposite “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” from Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

On the musician side, the trio Haim received two nominations. The Jewish sisters are up for Album of the Year for “Women in Music Pt. III and Best Rock Performance for “The Steps.”