Best Original Song Nominees

February 5, 2020

Oscars’ Best Original Song 2020: My Predictions

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The year is 2020, and coming up in a matter of days are the 92nd Academy Awards. I’ll be taking the day off from my retail job to watch them as I do every year, and I wanted to chime in with my thoughts on this year’s Best Original Song nominees. Of course, this isn’t the first year I’ve done so. In 2015, I wrote an article about the nominees for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards. I hoped that “Lost Stars” from Begin Again would win the award, but predicted that “Glory” from Selma would win the Oscar. I got that prediction right. Three years later, I did another article about Best Original Song Oscar nominees, this time for the 90th Academy Awards. With that article, I had predicted that “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman would win the Oscar and expressed hope that “Stand Up For Something” from Marshall might take home the prize. I predicted wrong as “Remember Me” from Coco took home the

February 16, 2015

Oscars’ Best Original Song 2015: My Predictions

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Normally, I’m the writer for whom every day is Throwback Thursday, but with the 87th Academy Awards just a few days away, I’ve decided to take a look at this year’s crop of nominees for Best Original Song. I haven’t seen the movies that were nominated for Best Picture this year, but I do have access to a computer, and with that, I can go on YouTube to hear this year’s Best Original Song contenders. I’ll review all five of them, predict which one will win, and then choose who I would have win if I picked the winner, that, of course, being a reference to Siskel and Ebert’s annual Oscar show. The first nominee is “Everything Is Awesome”, written by Shawn Patterson for “The Lego Movie”. I only saw the last 15 minutes of the movie. That was the live-action segment that may have ruined the film’s chances at a Best Animated Feature nomination, although “Wall-E” had live-action segments and that was nominated. I’m not reviewing the movie, though…I’m