The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 56 songs will be considered in the original song category for the 2007 Academy Awards.
On Tuesday, January 16, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for Music Branch voting members in both Beverly Hills and New York City.
According to the Academy's press release, "to be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credit."
As to be expected, a number of songs from animated films (Happy Feet, Cars) have been included. More surprisingly, so have a handful of songs from non-English-language films (Water, Curse of the Golden Flower, Rang De Basanti [above]). There's even a song from a documentary, "I Need to Wake Up," from Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth.
Nominations for the 2007 Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The 2007 Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 25, at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center.
List of songs eligible for the 2007 Oscars, in alphabetical order:
"Believe It" from The Heart of the Game
"The Best" from Everyone's Hero
"The Book I Write" from Stranger Than Fiction
"Broken Bridges" from Broken Bridges
"Chan Chan" from Water
"Circle in the Sand" from Friends with Money
"Coming Back to You" from Deja Vu
"Definition of Love" from Akeelah and the Bee
"Dreamz with a Z" from American Dreamz
"Encarnacion" from Nacho Libre
"Every Word" from Wordplay
"Family of Me" from Over the Hedge
"A Father's Way" from The Pursuit of Happyness
"The Girl in Byakkoya – White Tiger Field" from Paprika
"Heist" from Over the Hedge
"Hillbilly Holla" from Barnyard
"Hollywood Familia" from Hollywood Familia
"I Belong" from Open Season
"I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth
"In Rosa Vernat Lilium" from The Nativity Story
"It's a Fight" from Rocky Balboa
"Ju Hua Tai" from Curse of the Golden Flower
"Keep Holding On" from Eragon
"Khalbali" from Rang de Basanti
"Kingdom of Love" from One Night with the King
"Listen" from Dreamgirls
"A Lonely Man" from Don't Come Knocking
"Love You I Do" from Dreamgirls
"Luka Chuppi" from Rang de Basanti
"The Motion" from 3 Needles
"My Little Girl" from Flicka
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" from Bobby
"Never Let Go" from The Guardian
"O Kazakhstan" from Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
"Open Your Heart" from Saving Shiloh
"Ordinary Miracle" from Charlotte's Web
"Our Town" from Cars
"Patience" from Dreamgirls
"Philosophy" from Step Up
"PJ & Rooster" from Idlewild
"Quest for Love" from Arthur and the Invisibles
"Real Gone" from Cars
"Really Nice Day" from The Wild
"Shine on 'Em" from Blood Diamond
"The Song of the Heart" from Happy Feet
"Star Mile" from The Last Kiss
"Still" from Over the Hedge
"Suenos" from Hollywood Familia
"Sweet Music" from Glory Road
"Til the End of Time" from Little Miss Sunshine
"Tonight" from Night at the Museum
"Try Not to Remember" from Home of the Brave
"Upside Down" from Curious George
"When You Taught Me How to Dance" from Miss Potter
"Won't Let You Fall" from Poseidon
"You Know My Name" from Casino Royale