Warners dominates the Oscar shortlist with “Barbie” and “Color Purple”; Possible nominees for the first category include Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo; The only Disney song “The Fire Inside” by Diane Warren

While the original Oscar shortlist is usually good at spreading the wealth, three films dominated nearly half of the spots. Barbie received nominations for three songs, while The color purple and Apple Original Movies’ Flora and son Got two of each. Warner Bros. owns five of the fifteen places Barbie And Color Purple.

Warner Bros. increased the pressure Barbie Soundtrack produced by A star is born “Shallow” Oscar winner and seven-time Grammy winner Mark Ronson, in style this season with meet-and-greets and performances for the latter as well as artists Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish and even Ryan Gosling. All three songs were shortlisted Barbie – “Dance the Night”, “What Was I Made for?” and “I’m Just Ken” – have already been nominated for the Golden Globes. When was a one-film juggernaut on the Globes and Oscar shortlists?

While the original songs category went through a phase in the early 2000s where Billboard hits and songs by performing artists were largely overlooked, AMPAS moved away from pop music. Not that ratings are a priority for voters, but if Lipa, Eilish and Gosling all appear on next year’s telecast of the awards show, it will certainly be a big step forward for the Oscars’ ratings and social media.

If “Dance the Night” receives a nomination in this category, it will be a first for Lipa, who co-wrote the song with Ronson, Andrew Wyatt and Caroline Ailin. The disco song was requested by Barbie Director Greta Gerwig, who needed it at the beginning of the film for a big dance number. “Dance the Night” peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Lipa’s fifth top 10 single in the United States. The song was also nominated for Song of the Year and Best Song for a Visual Medium at the 66th Annual Grammys

Eilish, along with brother and collaborator Finneas O’Connell, recorded “What Am I Made For?” written, and they are already 2021 Oscar winners for the Song “No Time to Die” from the 007 film of the same name. Last year they were shortlisted by Disney/Pixar because of their three songs Blush. “What Am I Made For?” peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has five nominations at the Grammys, including Record and Song of the Year.

If “I’m Just Ken” is nominated and Gosling performs the ’80s power ballad during the Oscars telecast, the internet will break. The song is a hit with 70 million streams on Spotify and another 3 million on YouTube.

With all the stiff competition between the nominated actresses at Warner Bros.’ The color purple, If Halle Bailey is overlooked, she could be looking at a nomination in the original song category for the co-written song “Keep It Movin’.” In fact, both original songs from the film adaptation of the Broadway musical ended up on the shortlist. Bailey, who plays Nettie in the film, sings the song with young Celie, played by Phylicia Pearl Mpasi. Bailey co-wrote the song with Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney and Morten Ristorp.

“Superpower” is the moving, spiritual closing song The color purple and was written by The-Dream and performed by american idol alum Fantasia Barrino, who plays the older Celie in the film.

And it wouldn’t be Oscar season without songwriter Diane Warren, who is again on the shortlist for a possible 15th Original Song Oscar nomination with her Becky G-sung anthem “The Fire Inside,” the end-credits song for Hulu. / Searchlight Flamin’ Hot, directed by Eva Longoria. Warren was recently honored with a Governor’s Award Oscar, but has yet to win an Oscar despite her stellar nominations. “The Fire Inside” is the only song nominated by Disney; the performance of the studio Wish Songs are largely ignored.

The song “Falling Slowly” from John Carney’s romantic film can be heard Once won an Oscar for the original song in 2008, but Carney himself was never nominated for an Oscar for songwriting. The potential for this is there, because two of his co-written songs, “Meet in the Middle” and “High Life”, are on the shortlist for his Apple film. Flora and son. “Meet in the Middle” is performed by the film’s actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Eve Hewson, and was also written by them together with Carney, Gary Clark and Robert John Ardiff. “High Life” was co-written and performed by Hewson. Orén Kinlan also sings the song. Other songwriters include Clark and Carney.

Formerly The Band Co-founder Robbie Robertson, who died on August 9, was never nominated for the Oscars, but was able to find a posthumous nomination for his film score at Apple Original Films. Flower Moon Killer. This is the tenth time that Robertson has worked with his friend, director Martin Scorsese. A song from the film “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” was written by Scott George and performed by the Osage Tribal Singers.

Lenny Kravitz could also get his first Oscar nomination with his music and lyrics for “Road to Freedom,” the Netflix series’ opening song Quiet, which he sang and played with archival photos from the March on Washington. The song was also nominated for the Globes.

Also a step up today is the three-time Grammy winner and High school musical Actress Olivia Rodrigo performs “Can’t Catch Me Now,” her end credits song from the fall hit “Lionsgate.” The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Should he be nominated for best song next month, it will be Rodrigo’s first Oscar nomination.

From today’s shortlist: the second highest-grossing superhero film of 2023: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse ($690.5 million WW), could see three Oscar nominations for VFX, Daniel Pemberton’s original score and the end credits song “Am I Dreaming.” Hip-hop artist Metro Boomin sang and wrote it with Roisee, A$AP Rocky (as Rakim Mayers), Mike Dean, Peter Lee Johnson and Landon Wayne (as Landon “Script” Wayne). Metro Boomin performed with Roisee and A$AP Rocky.

Who was rejected this year? Not a single song was released by Warner Bros. Holiday hit Wonka, rising slightly to over $100 million in the United States over the Christmas holiday, and that was a lot. Illumination/Universal’s Jack Black performed and co-wrote the song “Peaches”. The Super Mario Bros. Movie was also ignored. Also missing is the end credits song “This” by OK Go from the Apple Original Films comedy the hat bubbles, The co-director was the band’s frontman, Damian Kulash. Other things missing from AMPAS this year include the Golden Globe-nominated Bruce Springsteen song “Addicted to Romance”. she came to me” and the NSYNC reunion single “Better Place” by Trolls unite.

The 2023 Oscar winner for Best Original Song was “Naatu Naatu” RRRwith music by MM Keeravaani and lyrics by Chandrabose.

The 15 songs up for nomination at the 96th Academy Awards are:

“It never went away.” American Symphony
“Dear Alien (who is in heaven)”. Asteroid city
“Dance the Night”. Barbie
“I’m just Ken.” Barbie
“What am I made for?” by Barbie
“Keep It Movin'” by The color purple
“Superpower (I)” by The color purple
“The Inner Fire”. Flamin’ Hot
“High Life” out Flora and son
“Meet in the middle.” Flora and son
“Can’t catch me now”. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People).” Flower Moon Killer
“Silent Eyes” by Past lives
“Road to Freedom”. Quiet
“I dream about it Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse