Oscar 2006: Best Song Longlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 42 original songs are being considered for the 2006 Academy Awards.
As per the Academy’s press release, three-minute clips of each song, in random order, will be shown to music branch voting members on January 17 and January 23. At these screenings, members will vote to nominate three to five songs.
In order to be eligible for Oscar consideration, a song must consist of original lyrics and music written specifically for the film.
Nominations for the 2006 Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.
The songs up for consideration, along with their films, are listed below in alphabetical order:
"Along the River" from End of the Spear
"Angels Talk" from Angels with Angels
"Butterfly" from Because of Winn-Dixie
"Can’t Take It In" from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (above)
"Closer Every Day" from Freezerburn
"Dicholo" from The Constant Gardener
"Do the Hippogriff" from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
"Dreamer" from Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
"Face of Faith" from Rumor Has It
"Fight for the Children" from Palindromes
"Finding Home" from Finding Home
"Great Big World" from Hookwinked
"Have a Little Faith" from The Theory of Everything
"Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over)" from Hustle & Flow
"(I’d Have It All) If I Had Drew" from My Date with Drew
"If I Apologize" from Mirrormask
"I’ll Be Near You" from Bee Season
"I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy" from Get Rich or Die Tryin’
"In the Deep" from Crash
"It Ain’t Over Yet” from Racing Stripes
"It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow
"I’ve Gotta See You Smile" from Because
of Winn-Dixie
"Mad Hot Ballroom" from Mad Hot Ballroom
"Move Away and Shine" from Thumbsucker
"My Brother, My People" from Blues by the Beach
"Nobody Jesus But You" from Palindromes
"One Blood" from Green Street Hooligans
"One Little Slip" from Chicken Little
"One Safe Place" from The Upside of Anger
"Reachin’ for Heaven" from Ice Princess
"Remains of the Day" from Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (top photo)
"Same in Any Language" from Elizabethtown
"Shine" from Robots
"Shoulder to Shoulder" from Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Taking the Inside Rail" from Racing Stripes
"Tell Me What You Already Did" from Robots
"There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway" from The Producers
"These Days" from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
"This Is the Way" from Palindromes
"Travelin’ Thru" from Transamerica
"You’re Gonna Die Soon" from Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic
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