Oscar 2008: Best Song Longlist
Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey in Enchanted. Three songs from this romantic fantasy have been shortlisted.
Fifty-nine songs from eligible feature films will be vying for a Best Original Song nomination at the 2008 Academy Awards.
In all honesty, I don’t think I know any of those songs. Some of the titles, however, are quite something, e.g., "Atkozott Egy Elet," "I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow," "The Tale of the Horny Frog," "The Devil’s Lonely Fire," "First Amendment Blues." I’m just not sure if they make me more or less willing to hear the melody and lyrics.
According to the Academy’s press release, "on Tuesday, January 15, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for voting members of the Music Branch in both Beverly Hills and New York City. Following the screenings, members will vote to determine which three, four or five songs become nominees in the category.
"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 credits."
The 59 eligible songs are (listed below in alphabetical order by film title):
"Do You Feel Me" from American Gangster
"At the Edge of the World" from Arctic Tale
"Someday" from August Rush
"This Time" from August Rush
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"Break" from August Rush
"Nothing’s There" from Badland
"The Devil’s Lonely Fire" from Badland
"A Hero Comes Home" from Beowulf
"The Stars of Orion" from Berkeley
"Say" from The Bucket List
"To Be Surprised" from Dan in Real Life
"My Hands Are Shaking" from Dan in Real Life
"I’ll Be OK" from Dan in Real Life
"December Boys" from December Boys
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That’s How You Know" from Enchanted
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Atkozott Egy Elet" from 56 Drops of Blood
"O, Atyam!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"Eleg!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"A Dream" from Freedom Writers
"Lyra" from The Golden Compass
"Good Luck Chuck" from Good Luck Chuck
"Shut Me Out" from Good Luck Chuck
"I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow" from Good Luck Chuck
"Grace Is Gone" from Grace Is Gone
"Lullabye for Wyatt" from Grace Is Gone
"Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" from Hairspray
"The Tale of the Horny Frog" from The Heartbreak Kid
"China Doll" from Honeydripper
"It Will Stay With Us" from The Hottest State
"Never See You" from The Hottest State
"Society" from Into the Wild
"Guaranteed" from Into the Wild
"Rise" from Into the Wild
"First Amendment Blues" from Larry Flynt: The Right To Be Left Alone
"Hello (I Love You)" from The Last Mimzy
"Despedida" from Love in the Time of Cholera
"Huck’s Tune" from Lucky You
"Little Wonders" from Meet the Robinsons
"Another Believer" from Meet the Robinsons
"Way Back into Love" from Music and Lyrics
"PoP! Goes My Heart" from Music and Lyrics
"Ordinary People" from Music Within
"Pretty Much Amazing" from Nancy Drew
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"If You Want Me" from Once
"Le Festin" from Ratatouille
"Land of Quiet Poems" from Resurrecting the Champ
"Love Will Still Be There" from September Dawn
"Royal Pain" from Shrek the Third
"Rule the World" from Stardust
"Before It’s Too Late (Sam and Mikaela’s Theme)" from Transformers
"Baby Don’t You Cry" from Waitress
"Beautiful Ride" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Walk Hard" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Let’s Duet" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Back Where You Belong" from The Water Horse
The 2008 Academy Awards nominations will be announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
The 2008 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
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The songs this year are actually really good – there’s a strong possibility that all 5 nominees will actually be worthy of the recognition (unless they nominate the insipid Walk Hard soundtrack). The Enchanted ones are cute (yes, “That’s How You Know” for the win), Into the Wild’s songs fall in the vein of Melissa Etheridge’s entertaining-and-politically-charged-rock win last year), the Once ballad is very pretty, the Hairspray song rousing, and I’m really pulling for Music & Lyrics!! The one monkey wrench, the song that I think has a good shot that I forgot to download, is Gone Baby Gone by Clint Eastwood (!) and Arthur winner Carole Bayer Seger.
Zach,
I believe you mean “Grace Is Gone,” not “Gone Baby Gone.”
My understanding is that Eastwood also wrote a new score for the film.