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I would love to see The Star!
Yeah, that’s not happening. A tepid song from an inconsequential movie performed by a washed up star with very little buzz does not amount to an Oscar. Mariah doesn’t have the same respect, particularly with the Oscars, as someone like Celine Dion, who has already performed 2 iconic Oscar winners and has 2 other Oscar nominated songs, and has performed a total 6 times at the ceremony, the most of any singer.
Call Me By Your Name and Beauty and the Beast are certain nominees. The thing with BatB is whether Evermore or HDAMLF gets nominated. On one hand, Evermore is the bigger song, but the pedigree Celine Dion brings, and the nostalgia factor, can be a huge pull for that song. Besides, someone like Celine performing would be great.
Your Celine Dion bias is showing. Dion has been used as a stunt performer at the Oscars for years because she’s the most reliably bourgeois insipid musical interpreter of all the grand(er) divas (can’t imagine the Oscar uppers wanting Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey gospel-izing humdrum movie music in live real time). And since time hasn’t been kind to the reputation of Titanic, and least of all My Heart Will Go On, I really don’t think Dion has much clout in the selection of the nominees. Will likely be the Disney behemoth names of Menken and Rice pulling in votes. But of the two Beauty and the Beast song contenders, I’m hoping HDAMLF gets in over the other. Evermore REALLY made me cringe in the theatre.
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As for The Star, it’s warm, cute, inspirational/spiritual, sappy and nostalgic in an 80’s Star Search performance kind of way. An advantage for Carey as a good addition to her ubiquitous Christmas repertoire. And one of the advantages of a win would be that co-writer Marc Shaiman would be the newest (and most deserving) entry in the EGOT group.because everybody is tired of Disney dominating Original song and Animated Feature almost every time they put out something. Also Sufjan is overdue for some industry awards TBH
Everybody except the Academy, that is. If Pixar can win for two songs that were essentially forgettable closing credit fodder, they certainly can for a film where the song plays an essential part of the story the way it does in COCO. I’m not even a particular fan of the film, but the film’s emotional climax is the performance of this song, tying up all the themes in one big tissue-friendly package. Given that it’s a near certainty to win Animated Feature too, it has to be considered the front-runner right now.
ReplyCopy URLThe Fifty Shades T-Swift tune is totally earning a Globe nom.
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ReplyCopy URLI really don’t want to see “Stand Up For Something” nominated. Its WAY too much Oscar-bait, too similar to previous Oscar winner “Glory”, the song is coming from a movie that bombed at the box office, its not a song that necessarily contributes to the movie it comes from, it is annoyingly being used currently as a theme song on CNN (which is probably where most people have heard it) and by no means is THIS the song that should finally win Diane Warren the Oscar.
Globes will prob nominate it, but I can smell a snub coming for the Oscars.
ReplyCopy URL70 ORIGINAL SONGS VIE FOR 2017 OSCAR®
“U.N.I (You And I)” from “And the Winner Isn’t”
“Love And Lies” from “Band Aid”
“If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes”
“Evermore” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“How Does A Moment Last Forever” from “Beauty and the Beast”
“Now Or Never” from “Bloodline: Now or Never”
“She” from “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story”
“Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go” from “The Book of Henry”
“Buddy’s Business” from “Brawl in Cell Block 99”
“The Crown Sleeps” from “The Breadwinner”
“World Gone Mad” from “Bright”
“Mystery Of Love” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Visions Of Gideon” from “Call Me by Your Name”
“Captain Underpants Theme Song” from “Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie”
“Ride” from “Cars 3”
“Run That Race” from “Cars 3”
“Tell Me How Long” from “Chasing Coral”
“Broken Wings” from “City of Ghosts”
“Remember Me” from “Coco”
“Prayers For This World” from “Cries from Syria”
“There’s Something Special” from “Despicable Me 3”
“It Ain’t Fair” from “Detroit”
“A Little Change In The Weather” from “Downsizing”
“Stars In My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)” from “Drawing Home”
“All In My Head” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Dying For Ya” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Green” from “Elizabeth Blue”
“Can’t Hold Out On Love” from “Father Figures”
“Home” from “Ferdinand”
“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever” from “Fifty Shades Darker”
“You Shouldn’t Look At Me That Way” from “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”
“This Is How You Walk On” from “Gifted”
“Summer Storm” from “The Glass Castle”
“The Pure And The Damned” from “Good Time”
“This Is Me” from “The Greatest Showman”
“The Hero” from “The Hero”
“How Shall A Sparrow Fly” from “Hostiles”
“Just Getting Started” from “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast”
“Truth To Power” from “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power”
“Next Stop, The Stars” from “Kepler’s Dream”
“The Devil & The Huntsman” from “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword”
“Have You Ever Wondered” from “Lake of Fire”
“I’ll Be Gone” from “Lake of Fire”
“We’ll Party All Night” from “Lake of Fire”
“Friends Are Family” from “The Lego Batman Movie”
“Found My Place” from “The Lego Ninjago Movie”
“Stand Up For Something” from “Marshall”
“Rain” from “Mary and the Witch’s Flower”
“Myron/Byron” from “The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)”
“Longing For Summer” from “Moomins and the Winter Wonderland”
“Mighty River” from “Mudbound”
“Never Forget” from “Murder on the Orient Express”
“Hold The Light” from “Only the Brave”
“PBNJ” from “Patti Cake$”
“Tuff Love (Finale)” from “Patti Cake$”
“Lost Souls” from “The Pirates of Somalia”
“How A Heart Unbreaks” from “Pitch Perfect 3”
“The Promise” from “The Promise”
“Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Maanathe Maarikurumbe” from “Pulimurugan”
“Stubborn Angel” from “Same Kind of Different as Me”
“Dancing Through The Wreckage” from “Served Like a Girl”
“Keep Your Eyes On Me” from “The Shack”
“On The Music Goes” from “Slipaway”
“The Star” from “The Star”
“Jump” from “Step”
“Tickling Giants” from “Tickling Giants”
“Fly Away” from “Trafficked”
“Speak To Me” from “Voice from the Stone”
“Walk On Faith” from “Year by the Sea”https://www.oscars.org/news/70-original-songs-vie-2017-oscarr
ReplyCopy URLAlthough I love that both mystery of love and visions of gideon made the shortlist I wish only mystery of love was submitted, it has the best chance out of the two. I’m worried we’re gonna see a repeat of what has been happening to Michael Stuhlbarg and Armie Hammer where they split votes, like at sag and we end up with someone like Steve Carell making it in!
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