Best Song Category Articles

Even though there are only two Best Original Song nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards, according to Deadline.com, Rio's "Real in Rio" (music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown, lyric by Siedah Garrett) and The Muppets' "Man or Muppet" (music and lyric by Bret McKenzie) will not be performed at the upcoming Oscar ceremony. Time constraints would seem to be the reason for the decision [...]

Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez provide voices for tropical birds in Carlos Saldanha's Rio Thirty-nine songs from eligible movies are in the running for nominations in the Academy Awards' Best Original Song category for the 2012 Oscars. Madonna's Golden Globe-nominated "Masterpiece" from W.E. isn't to be found on the longlist, but Elton John is on there for Gnomeo and Juliet's "Hello Hello." As usual, [...]

Jim Carrey in A Christmas Carol (top); The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam (middle); Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Hudson in Nine (bottom) Sixty-three songs are contending for a nomination in the Best Original Song category for the 2010 Academy Awards. Needless to say, there are songs from Disney movies — A Christmas Carol, The Princess and the Frog — in addition to songs from [...]

This past June 23, the governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences approved new rules for the 2010 Academy Awards. In addition to the previously announced change in the Best Picture category — which will now include 10 nominees — another important change was made in the Original Song category. As per the Academy's press release, "the governors approved the Music Branch [...]