63 Compete For Best Original Song Academy Award

5…FIVE!…songs from HANNAH MONTANA THE MOVIE??? Really???  Once again, a category that AMPAS will never take seriously. Then they proceed to leave off the list Mary J. Blige’s song from PRECIOUS, “I Can See in Color.” Nevermind that they complete lost me with “The Word Is Love” from “Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!” Please feel free to leave a comment below if you’ve heard of this one.  However, I was thrilled to see two songs from one of my favorite films of 2009, AN EDUCATION, make the cut, “Smoke Without Fire” and “You Got Me Wrapped around Your Little Finger.” A soundtrack I highly recommend.

The Official Press Release from AMPAS:

Beverly Hills, CA – Sixty-three songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are contending for nominations in the Original Song category for the 82nd Academy Awards ®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by song title:  

All Is Love from Where the Wild Things Are

Almost Over You from My One and Only

Almost There from The Princess and the Frog

AyAyAyAy from The Maid

Back to Tennessee from Hannah Montana The Movie

Being Bad from Duplicity

Blanco from Fast & Furious

Brothers in Arms from Brothers at War

Butterfly Fly Away from Hannah Montana The Movie

Cinema Italiano from Nine

Colorblind from Invictus

Depression Era from That Evening Sun

Don’t Walk Away from Hannah Montana The Movie

Dove of Peace from Bruno

Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog

Fly Farm Blues from It Might Get Loud

Forget Me from I Love You, Beth Cooper

God Bless Us Everyone from Disney’s A Christmas Carol

Here from Shrink

Hideaway from Where the Wild Things Are

Hoedown Throwdown from Hannah Montana The Movie

I Bring What I Love from Youssou Na Dour: I Bring What I Love

I See You from Avatar

(I Want to) Come Home from Everybody’s Fine

If You’re Wondering from The Lightkeepers

Impossible Fantasy from Adventures of Power

Innocent Child from Skin

Invictus 9,000 Days from Invictus

Legendary from Tyson

Let Freedom Reign from Skin

Loin de Paname from Paris 36

Ma Belle Evangeline from The Princess and the Frog

My One and Only from My One and Only

Na Na from Couples Retreat

Never Knew I Needed from The Princess and the Frog

New Divide from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

New Jersey Nights from Adventures of Power

New York Is Where I Live from Did You Hear about the Morgans?

No Time for Love from Simon & Malou

One Day from Post Grad

Only You from The Young Victoria

Other Father Song from Coraline

Petey’s Song from Fantastic Mr. Fox

Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea from Ponyo

Possibility from The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Raining Sunshine from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Running Out of Empty (Make Ourselves at Home) from Lymelife

Smoke without Fire from An Education

Somebody Else from Crazy Heart

Stu’s Song from The Hangover

Take It All from Nine

Through the Trees from Jennifer’s Body

Trust Me from The Informant!

Un Bouquet des Violettes from New York, I Love You

We Are the Children of the World from The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

We Love Violence from The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart

When You Find Me from Adam

Winter from Brothers

The Word Is Love from Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!

You Got Me Wrapped around Your Little Finger from An Education

You’ll Always Find Your Way Back Home from Hannah Montana The Movie

You’ve Been a Friend to Me from Old Dogs

On Tuesday, January 12, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for voting members of the Music Branch in Los Angeles. Following the screenings, members will determine the nominees by an averaged point system vote. If no song receives an average score of 8.25 or more, there will be no nominees in the category. If only one song achieves that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score shall be the two nominees. If two or more songs (up to five) achieve that score, they shall be the nominees.

A DVD copy of the song clips will be made available to those branch members who are unable to attend the screening and who request it for home viewing. A mail-in ballot will be provided.

A maximum of two songs may be nominated from any one film. If more than two songs from a film are in contention, the two songs with the most votes will be the nominees.

To be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credits.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Source: oscars.org