Pay attention under to the 5 nominees for this 12 months's Academy Award for finest unique track.
Winners of this 12 months's Oscars be introduced on Sunday, March 27, on the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Heart in Hollywood.
"Dos Oruguitas" from "Encanto"
Music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
The musical maestro behind "Within the Heights" and "Hamilton" wrote the songs for the Disney animated movie "Encanto," together with the Spanish-language "Dos Oruguitas." The ballad, carried out within the movie by Colombian singer-songwriter Sebastián Yatra, offers the central character, Mirabel, with a household historical past, and the story of her grandparents' romance and struggling.
Dos oruguitas enamoradas
Pasan sus noches y madrugadas
Llenas de hambre
Siguen andando y navegando un mundo
Que cambia y sigue cambiando
Navegando un mundo
Que cambia y sigue cambiando
A Miranda Oscar win would garner him an EGOT honor (having already gained an Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award).
🤦 "Encanto"'s breakout hit, "We Do not Speak About Bruno," was not submitted by Disney for nomination – the studio submitted "Dos Oruguitas," and solely "Dos Oruguitas," to protect in opposition to splitting academy votes with one other "Encanto" track. Sadly, Disney couldn't foresee that, as soon as the movie was launched after the academy's November 1 awards submission deadline, "Bruno" – a catchy, humorous track a couple of fortune teller – would rise to a worldwide hit, changing into solely the second Disney track ever to achieve #1 on the Billboard charts.
However no worries: Even with out a nomination, the Oscar ceremony's producers have introduced that the track can be carried out stay on Sunday's present regardless. Guess Bruno could not predict that.
"Be Alive" from "King Richard"
Music and Lyric by Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
It feels so good, so good
(Obtained all my household by my aspect)
And we gon' sit on high of the world once more
(Could not wipe this black off if I attempted)
And I would not commerce nothing
And I would not commerce nothing
(That is why I elevate my head with satisfaction)
So child, elevate your head, yeah
Beyoncé obtained her first Academy Award nomination for "King Richard," the biopic of how Venus and Serena Williams have been pushed, inspired and impressed by their father (performed by Will Smith).
Performed underneath the movie's finish credit, the track recounts the battle and persistence of the rising tennis stars, in addition to the facility of household and Black satisfaction.
"No Time To Die" from "No Time To Die"
Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
We have been a pair
However I noticed you there
An excessive amount of to bear
You have been my life
However life is way away from honest
Was I silly to like you?
Was I reckless to assist?
Was it apparent to everyone else
That I might fallen for a lie?
You have been by no means on my aspect
Idiot me as soon as, idiot me twice
Are you dying or paradise?
Now you may by no means see me cry
There's simply no time to die
James Bond theme songs by no means acquired a lot Oscar love, till Adele sang "Skyfall," and Sam Smith adopted with "Writing's on the Wall" (from "Spectre"). For this last 007 outing starring Daniel Craig, Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell adopted these Oscar-winning hits with a moody, burning love track in a minor chord so widespread for Bond theme songs.
Eilish's efficiency is beautiful however extraordinarily quiet, removed from the full-throated energy of Shirley Bassey, Adele, or Paul McCartney & Wings, so closed captions are a assist.
📅 The track was launched greater than two years in the past, on February 13, 2020, simply earlier than the movie's theatrical launch (which had already been pushed from late 2019) was postponed once more because of the COVID pandemic. The film can be delayed but once more, and once more, till it lastly opened in November 2021 – 10 months after Eilish and O'Connell had already picked up the Grammy Award for finest track written for visible media.
"Down To Pleasure" from "Belfast"
Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
Van Morrison's songs fill the soundtrack of Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age movie set in Northern Eire throughout the Troubles, together with such period-non-specific songs as "Brilliant Facet of the Street," "Heat Love," "And the Therapeutic Has Begun" and "Days Like This." For the movie, Morrison composed a brand new track, "All the way down to Pleasure," which speaks to the filmmaker's reminiscence piece – about separation from household, mates, and a way of place.
She was standing there earlier than me
After I was coming down
I mentioned I do adore thee
After I was coming all the way down to pleasure
What imaginative and prescient was earlier than me
After I was coming down
It was simply across the nook
After I was coming all the way down to pleasure
🗑️ Rolling Stone journal notes, nonetheless, that "All the way down to Pleasure" bears hanging similarities to an unreleased demo that Morrison composed again within the early seventies, a slower piece titled "Coming All the way down to Pleasure," that ultimately noticed gentle as a bootleg.
🚫 Morrison was invited to sing "All the way down to Pleasure" on the Oscar broadcast, however declined, so the track is not going to be carried out.
"In some way You Do" from "4 Good Days"
Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
Whenever you assume it is the tip of the highway
It is simply 'cuz you do not know the place the highway's resulting in
Whenever you assume that the mountain's too excessive
And the ocean's too huge, you may by no means get by way of
A way, by some means,
by some means you do
Will it's fortunate 13 for Diane Warren? The songwriter has obtained 13 nominations for finest unique track, however the Oscar statuette has up to now eluded her. Her newest, for the drug dependancy drama "4 Good Days," is a testomony to resilience and overcoming self-doubt.
Sung by Reba McEntire, "In some way You Do" joins such Warren nominees as Starship's "Nothing Gonna Cease Us Now," Aerosmith's "I Do not Need to Miss a Factor," and Girl Gaga's "'Til It Occurs to You."
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- oscars.com (Official website of Oscar telecast)
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