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2020 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2020 Oscar Predictions — Best Original Song

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Listen, I know we could talk about Oscar snubs all day and it wouldn’t make any difference. To an extent, expressing any amount of emotion for the Academy and their decisions is a waste of energy. It is all futile and arbitrary, and it’s better not to get caught up in it.

But, I mean, there’s no love for “Glasgow” in the Best Original Song category? It is a great song inside a lovely little film called Wild Rose. It deserved some recognition here. Seriously, what the f–

The Nominees:

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2019 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2019 Oscar Predictions – Best Original Song and Best Original Score

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I don’t think there is an awful lot to say about the 2019 races for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. One is barely a race, and the other has a standout front-runner with only minor competition.

This isn’t to say that the two categories are complete locks, but they are both pretty darn close.

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The Nominees – Best Original Song:

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2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song

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Sometimes, the nominees for Best Original Song come from unexpected places. This time around, not so much. The Marshall nod was a bit out of left field but certainly nothing unforeseeable.

The winner for Best Original Song, though, often comes from the most popular film of the bunch. This is to say, whichever film was most widely seen or whichever had the most widely-heard song or whichever has the highest Oscar stock. This, or the film is a popular musical, in which case it often wins by default.

This year, the nominees include a (somewhat) popular musical, a widely seen animated film, and a film with a relatively high Oscar stock. So…who wins?

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The Nominees:

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2018 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2018 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song Nominees

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I’m no music critic. The Academy branch that determines the Best Original Song nominees probably don’t think about film the way I do. They could reach out and pull out a song from a film I’ve never heard of, because they’re only listening to the songs regardless of quality of movie.

Still, I’ve put it on myself to roll out predictions. You can’t expect them all to come from my mouth.

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The Nominees:

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2018 Golden Globes

2018 Golden Globes Predictions – Best Original Song

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Three animated films, a showbiz musical, and an Americana period piece. Five songs. One Best Original Song category. Numbers, numbers. Yadda, yadda. Let’s talk about it.

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The Nominees – Best Song

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2017 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2017 Academy Awards Nomination Predictions – Best Original Song

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Best Original Song: the Grammy award of Academy Awards. I always am fascinated by what the Academy does with this category. Films yield very different styles of song, so much so that it often feels inappropriate to compare them to each other in an awards category. But that is exactly what we are here to do.

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2016 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2016 Academy Awards Predictions – Best Original Song

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Sometimes, the two-horse races at the Academy Awards are just as hard to call as the categories that are simply up in the air. This race is one of those cases.

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I’ll begin with a dark horse selection. “Simple Song #3,” from the Michael Caine vehicle Youth. It is a beautiful song, but it is failing to supplant the buzz of two other songs in the category.

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2015 Academy Awards, Award Ceremonies

2015 Academy Award Predictions — Best Original Song

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The Nominees:

  • “Glory” Common, John Legend — Selma
  • “Lost Stars” Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois — Begin Again
  • “Everything is Awesome” Shawn Patterson — The Lego Movie
  • “Grateful” Diane Warren — Beyond the Lights
  • “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond — Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me

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