LOS ANGELES (AP) — The often-nominated Diane Warren and past winners Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are among the nominees for…
The often-nominated Diane Warren and past winners Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are among the nominees for music awards for the 2024 Oscars. The hyper-competitive original song and original score categories include nominees from the films “Barbie” to ”Oppenheimer” and beyond.
Warren is vying for original song with “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot.” She is joined in the category by Ronson and Wyatt for “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie,” Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson for “It Never Went Away” from ”American Symphony,” and Scott George for “Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Rounding out the category is “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie” by Eilish and O’Connell.
There’s a lot that is noteworthy here: Two of the five songs come from the stellar “Barbie” soundtrack, both from previous winners in the category. Siblings Eilish and O’Connell won best original song at the 2022 Academy Awards for their James Bond theme “No Time to Die.” Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt won the prize in 2019 for “Shallow” from “A Star is Born” alongside Lady Gaga and Anthony Rossomando. “The Fire Inside” marks Warren’s 15th Oscar nomination. Could it be her first win?
The nominees for original score are: “American Fiction,” Laura Karpman; “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” John Williams; “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Robbie Robertson; “Oppenheimer,” Ludwig Göransson; and “Poor Things” by Jerskin Fendrix.
At 64, Karpman has the first nomination of her career. It’s also a first nomination for Fendrix — for the first film he’s ever scored. Roberston’s nomination for “Killer of the Flower Moon” is posthumous. The lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band died in August.
The animated short category includes an entry based on music. Writer/director Dave Mullins and producer Brad Booker are nominated for “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko.”
A look at some of the nominees and their reactions.
Warren describes the song as bringing “a little reggaeton to the Oscars.”
“I’m thrilled. Beyond. And now the number of Oscars I’ve been nominated for has caught up to my emotional age, which is (15). I’m just kidding. Kind of.
I was in front of the TV with about 20 of my friends, a bunch of them stay up all night with me as we do. It’s called a sleepless sleepover.
It’s still exciting. I’ve yet to win an Oscar, you know, with my 14 other nominations which may continue, you know.
