Two songs from Barbie were nominated for best original song on Tuesday (January 23) – 'I'm Just Ken' (written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt) and 'What Was I Made For?' (written by Billie Eilish and Finneas). A third song from the hit film, “Dance the Night” (on which Ronson and Wyatt collaborated with Dua Lipa and Caroline Ailin) failed to qualify for the final. (Based on a 2008 rule change, no more than two songs from a film can be nominated.)
Barbie it is the first film to have two Best Song nominations since La La Land seven years ago. “City of Stars” and “Audition (The Fools Who Dream)” were both nominated. “City of Stars” continued to win. In contrast with Barbieboth songs were written by the same team – composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
“Why was I made?” it is also nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year.
Perennial Diane Warren was nominated for “The Fire Inside.” Flamin' Hot. This is her 15th nomination for Best Original Song, a mark only five songwriters have reached. This is the seventh consecutive year that Warren has been nominated, the longest streak in that category since Sammy Cahn was nominated for eight years from 1954 to 1961.
Warren has yet to win a competitive Oscar. He is one of only five people in Oscar history to have so many nominations without winning. He joins sound mixer Greg P. Russell (16 nods), the late art director Roland Anderson (15), composer Thomas Newman (15) and the late composer Alex North (15).
Jon Batiste, who won an Oscar three years ago for his work on Soul Music with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, he received his first Best Original Song for “It Never Went Away” from American Accord, a documentary about a year in his life. Batiste co-wrote the song with Dan Wilson. The pair are also nominated for Grammy Song of the Year, but for a different song, “Butterfly.” American Accord submitted for a Best Documentary nod.
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” by Killers of the Flower Moon he was a surprise candidate. The song is credited to The Osage Tribe. Many expected Lenny Kravitz's “Road to Freedom” to be nominated, but it didn't make it.
In the best initial score category, Ludwig Göransson was nominated for his score Oppenheimer. The Swedish composer won in this category five years ago for scoring Black panther. She was nominated for an Oscar last year for co-writing a song for the sequel.
John Williams was nominated for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. This is Williams' career-high 49th nod in a scoring category and his fourth for a film. Indiana Jones privilege. Overall, it's Williams' 54th Academy Award nomination (the other five are for Best Original Song), bringing him closer to Walt Disney's all-time record of 59 for an individual.
The late Robbie Robertson was nominated for Killers of the Flower Moon. This was the 12th and final Martin Scorsese film in which Robertson worked. Robertson, who died in June aged 80, is the first composer to be nominated in this category posthumously since the legendary Bernard Herrmann was nominated in 1976 for both. Obsession and Taxi driver.
Laura Karpman has received her first Oscar nod American fiction. Karpman is the fifth woman to receive a nomination in this category in the past 25 years, following Rachel Portman (The Cider House Rules and Chocolate), Mica Levi (Fireplace), Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker), Germaine Franco (Encanto). Note: Levi, who was shortlisted this year for her score The Zone of Interestcame out as non-binary after her nod for Fireplace.
English musician Jerskin Fendrix won his first Oscar for scoring Poor. The scores expected to make the cut were by Daniel Pemberton Spider Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Anthony Willis Saltburn.
The 96th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC. Jimmy Kimmel hosts for the fourth time.
Here's a full list of the songs nominated for Best Original Song, followed by a full list of the shortlisted songs that weren't nominated.
Nominated songs
“He never left”
Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson
American AccordNetflix
“I'm Ken”
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
BarbieWarner County.
“Why was I made?”
Billie Eilish, FINNEAS
BarbieWarner County.
“The Fire Inside”
Diane Warren
Flamin' HotHulu/Searchlight Pictures
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)”
The Osage Tribe
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
Selected songs that were not recommended
“Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)”
Jarvis Coker, Richard Hawley, Wes Anderson
Asteroid CityFocus features
“Dance the Night”
Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
BarbieWarner County.
“Keep It Movin'”
Halle Bailey, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney, Morten Ristorp
The Color PurpleWarner County.
“Superpower (I)”
The dream
The Color PurpleWarner County.
“Expensive life”
Gary Clark, John Carney, Eve Hewson
Flora and sonApple
“Meeting in the Middle”
Gary Clark, John Carney, Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Ardiff
Flora and sonApple
“Can't Catch Me Now”
Dan Nigro, Olivia Rodrigo
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & SnakesLionsgate
“Quiet Eyes”
Zach Dawes, Sharon Von Etten
Past LivesA24
“Road to Freedom”
Lenny Kravitz
RustinNetflix
“Dream”
A$AP Rocky, Metro Boomin, Michael Dean, Peter Lee Johnson, Roisee, Scriptplugg
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseSony Pictures
Here's a full list of the scores that were nominated for best starting score, followed by a list of the scores that made it to the non-nominated list.
Candidate Ratings
American fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM)
Laura Karpman
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney)
John Williams
Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple)
Robbie Robertson
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
Ludwig Göransson
Poor (Searchlight Images)
Jerskin Fendrix
Selected ratings that were not recommended
American Accord (Netflix)
John Baptiste
Barbie (COURTESY Warner.)
Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
The boy and the heron (GKids)
Joe Hisaishi
The Color Purple (COURTESY Warner.)
Chris Bowers
Elementary (Pixar)
Thomas Newman
The Holdovers (Focus Functions)
Mark Orton
Saltburn (Amazon/MGM)
Anthony Willis
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
Daniel Pemberton
Society of the Snow (Netflix)
Michael Giacchino
The Zone of Interest (A24)
Mica Levi
from our partners at https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2024-oscar-nominees-best-original-song-score-list-1235585935/