The list of finalists for the Oscar in the category “Best Original Song” teeming with pop stars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Thursday the 15 pre-candidates who will compete for a statuette of the most important prize of cinema in 2023.
Rihanna, Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez, debutants in this potential Hollywood awards nomination, will compete respectively for the songs lift me up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Carolinafrom the movie Where the crayfish sing Y My mind and mefrom the biographical documentary Selena Gomez: Me and my mind.
They are joined by another figure of pop music such as Lady Gaga, with whom he will try to establish himself Hold my handfrom the successful sequel Top Gun: nonconformist. It should be remembered that the top gun original won the 1986 award for classic Take my Breath Away.
The Bad Romance and Poker Face singer won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2019 for Shallowfrom A star was bornthe musical film in which she starred and for which she was also nominated “Best Actress”.
Particularly Of these fifteen finalists, only five will compete for the prize when the final nominees are revealed on Jan. 24. The 95th Academy Awards will take place at the Dolby Theatre Los Angeles on March 12, 2023.
The Weeknd, Drake and a regular
Another superstar returning to battle for an Oscar is The weekendwhich competed with the original theme Earnedfrom Fifty Shades of Grayin 2016. The Canadian singer-songwriter co-wrote and performed Nothing is lost (You give me strength) from the sequel to Avatar, the path of water.
His compatriot Drake also appears for the first time in a previous list with Time, a song he co-wrote for the film. Amsterdam.
One who comes back and is very used to supplementing these lists is Diane Warrenwhat will seek his 14th nomination with the song Applausefrom Say it like a womanan anthology marking one of his smallest holdings to date.
Warren may become the first songwriter or songwriting team to be nominated for six consecutive years since the Marilyn and Alan Bergman streak of 1968-1973. Diane will receive an Academy Governor’s Award on November 19.
Byrne, Desplat and the full list
Also among the finalists is David Byrne, winner of an Academy Award for the music of The last emperor (1987). The Talking Heads frontman has been recognized for his work This is a life -along with Son Lux and Mitski-, theme of the film All everywhere at the same time.
Two-time Oscar-winning French composer, Alexandre Desplatwill try to win third place with the song “Ciao Papa”, taken from the soundtrack of Pinocchio, the new animated version of Guillermo del Toro.
The American duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, authors of the Oscar-winning film City of Stars of the film La La Landwill try to be among the five finalists with the song good afternoonfrom the Christmas musical comedy Humorous.
Here’s the complete list of Oscar nominees for “Best Original Song.”
- Time, from Amsterdam
- Nothing is lost (give me strength) from Avatar: The Water Way
- Lift me up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- This Is A Life, from Everything Everywhere at the same time
- Hello Pope, from Pinocchio, by Guillermo del Toro
- Until You’re Home, from A Man Called Otto
- Naatu Naatu by RRR
- My Mind & Me, by Selena Gomez: Me and my mind
- Good afternoon from Spirited
- Applause, from Say It Like a Woman
- Stand Up by Till
- Hold my hand from Top Gun: Maverick
- Dust and Ashes, from The Voice of Dust and Ashes
- Carolina, from Where the Crawdads Sing
- New Rhumba body from White Noise
Source: Clarin
