At the 49th Grammy Awards ( given on February 11 , 2007 ) , the song won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture , Television or Other Visual Media . The same night , Newman 's work for '' Cars '' won for Music in an Animated Feature Production at the 34th Annie Awards . Cars : The Soundtrack The film was also nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song but lost to " I Need to Wake Up " from '' An Inconvenient Truth ''
34th Annie Awards
34th Annie Awards
Our Town (James Taylor song)