"Unfinished Song": possible nomination for Oscars?

[khader]

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Seventy-five songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2013 are in contention for nominations in the Original Song category for the 86th Oscars®, 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 film title and song title:

"Amen" from "All Is Lost"

"Alone Yet Not Alone" from "Alone Yet Not Alone"

"Doby" from "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues"

"Last Mile Home" from "August: Osage County"

"Austenland" from "Austenland"

"Comic Books" from "Austenland"

"L.O.V.E.D.A.R.C.Y" from "Austenland"

"What Up" from "Austenland"

"He Loves Me Still" from "Black Nativity"

"Hush Child (Get You Through This Silent Night)" from "Black Nativity"

"Test Of Faith" from "Black Nativity"

"Forgiveness" from "Brave Miss World"

"Lullaby Song" from "Cleaver's Destiny"

"Shine Your Way" from "The Croods"

"Happy" from "Despicable Me 2"

"Gonna Be Alright" from "Epic"

"Rise Up" from "Epic"

"What Matters Most" from "Escape from Planet Earth"

"Bones" from "For No Good Reason"

"Going Nowhere" from "For No Good Reason"

"Gonzo" from "For No Good Reason"

"The Courage To Believe" from "Free China: The Courage to Believe"

"Let It Go" from "Frozen"

"100$ Bill" from "The Great Gatsby"

"A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" from "The Great Gatsby"

"Over The Love" from "The Great Gatsby"

"Together" from "The Great Gatsby"

"Young and Beautiful" from "The Great Gatsby"

"The Moon Song" from "Her"

"I See Fire" from "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

"Bite Of Our Lives" from "How Sweet It Is"

"Try" from "How Sweet It Is"

"Atlas" from "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"

"Better You, Better Me" from "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete"

"Bring It On" from "Jewtopia"

"Aygiri Nadani" from "Kamasutra 3D"

"Har Har Mahadeva" from "Kamasutra 3D"

"I Felt" from "Kamasutra 3D"

"Of The Soil" from "Kamasutra 3D"

"Sawariya" from "Kamasutra 3D"

"In The Middle Of The Night" from "Lee Daniels' The Butler"

"You And I Ain't Nothin' No More" from "Lee Daniels' The Butler"

"Let's Take A Trip" from "Live at the Foxes Den"

"Pour Me Another Dream" from "Live at the Foxes Den"

"The Time Of My Life" from "Live at the Foxes Den"

"Ordinary Love" from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"

"Monsters University" from "Monsters University"

"When The Darkness Comes" from "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones"

"Sacrifice (I Am Here)" from "Murph: The Protector"

"The Muslims Are Coming" from "The Muslims Are Coming!"

"Oblivion" from "Oblivion"

"Sweeter Than Fiction" from "One Chance"

"Nothing Can Stop Me Now" from "Planes"

"We Both Know" from "Safe Haven"

"Get Used To Me" from "The Sapphires"

"Stay Alive" from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"

"So You Know What It's Like" from "Short Term 12"

"There's No Black Or White" from "Somm"

"Cut Me Some Slack" from "Sound City"

"You Can't Fix This" from "Sound City"

"Let It Go" from "Spark: A Burning Man Story"

"We Ride" from "Spark: A Burning Man Story"

"Becomes The Color" from "Stoker"

"Younger Every Day" from "3 Geezers!"

"Here It Comes" from "Trance"

"Let The Bass Go" from "Turbo"

"The Snail Is Fast" from "Turbo"

"Speedin'" from "Turbo"

"My Lord Sunshine (Sunrise)" from "12 Years a Slave"

"Make It Love" from "Two: The Story of Roman & Nyro"

"One Life" from "The Ultimate Life"

"Unfinished Songs" from "Unfinished Song"

"For The Time Being" from "The Way, Way Back"

"Go Where The Love Is" from "The Way, Way Back"

"Bleed For Love" from "Winnie Mandela"

During the nominations process, all voting members of the Music Branch will receive a Reminder List of works submitted in the category and a DVD copy of the song clips. Members will be asked to watch the clips and then vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements in the category. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award. A maximum of two songs may be nominated from any one film.

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 86th Academy Awards® nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 16, 2014, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

[gafsa]

Wow

[Davey84]

I am sorry... but this song is not Oscar worthy

[dj_a_rock]

I hope she win.

[Xpresso]

Well many songs on that list aren't Oscar worthy... Let's see which 5 songs will actually be nominated. Another Céline performance at the Academy Awards would be great and it would help to sell LMBTL.

[Xpresso]

Don't forget... those songs are NOT nominated yet. They're only the songs that are eligible for the nominations.

EDIT: subject line should be edited to read "eligible for nomination" and not "nomination for Oscar"!!

Edited December 17, 2013 at 08:33 AM by Xpresso

[dj_a_rock]

^ Yeah. And we will get another live performance from the album.

 

So far we have:

 

LMBTL - lots

SLS - The Today show and Dr Oz.

Incredible - X factor and CBS

WAAF - The Today show

Breakaway - SCD

Didn't Know Love - CBS

At Seventeen - Grammy

Lullaby - Oprah

Open Arms - Las Vegas

 

Unfinished Songs - Oscar ?

[Xpresso]

Not "we will".... but "we MIGHT" get a performance IF (and its a big IF) the song is nominated... Dont get carried away just yet!

[Javito]

Come on, this song has nothing to do in Oscars It's like sending One Heart after winning the Oscar with MHWGO.

[wjd]

This will never make the shortlist.

 

Any old crap - including this - can be submitted providing it meets elgiiblity criteria!

[LuisMa]

^ Exactly. And most of the times a well-known song gets more chances than a lesser-known song by a well-known act, not to mention songs from huge productions. I bet "Atlas" and "Young And Beautiful" have a bit of an edge over many of these. Same goes for the lovely "Let It Go".

 

In all, I only know 10 songs from that list.

[Taking Chances]

Come on, this song has nothing to do in Oscars It's like sending One Heart after winning the Oscar with MHWGO.

 

That pretty much sums up my opinion on the matter as well.

[LuisMa]

I love it how the two poles of the posting spectrum are represented in back to back posts going from "It's not Oscar worthy" to "I hope she wins".

 

Anything else we post falls in between.

[Javito]

Don't get me wrong (like Céline would say ), of course I would love this song being nominated and Céline to take home another Oscar, but only the thought of it is crazy. I mean, the song has not even been a single, nor released in radios. Nobody knows it, and we all know that another very important factor to nominate a song is the popularity it has reached among the public! It's just nosense. Edited December 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM by Javito

[isurrender]

^ Exactly. And most of the times a well-known song gets more chances than a lesser-known song by a well-known act, not to mention songs from huge productions. I bet "Atlas" and "Young And Beautiful" have a bit of an edge over many of these. Same goes for the lovely "Let It Go".

 

In all, I only know 10 songs from that list.

 

Indeed.

 

People are funny sometimes on this board...

 

Do they really think the other songs are Oscars-worthy?

 

I mean US is not THE OSCAR song but same goes for most of the other ones ( and I really really doubt those who take US down know all the songs off the list as the majority are unknown...). Most of them weren't singles as well.

 

"Unfinished song" won't be nominated only because it's taken from a movie which didn't have a widespread national release and nobody knows it. That's it. A soundtrack off an independant movie is never nominated.

 

Soundtracks are not what they used to be anymore: who knows the last 10 winners? It doesn't have to do with quality.

 

She won't make this year's nods list but she will next year with the Muppets.

Edited December 17, 2013 at 10:45 AM by isurrender

[LuisMa]

I wonder now not just how Oscar worthy but how "I Felt" from Kamasutra 3D is.

[DionFanAlways]

I wonder now not just how Oscar worthy but how "I Felt" from Kamasutra 3D is.

Kamasutra 3D! Where are my damn 3D glasses when I need them!!?

 

 

On second thought.................. never mind some thing are better left unseen coming at you!

[LuisMa]

Kamasutra 3D! Where are my damn 3D glasses when I need them!!?

 

 

On second thought.................. never mind some thing are better left unseen coming at you!

 

That business is better left Unfinished!

[CelineDionForeverNY]

I remember seeing a "For your consideration" single for Unfinished Songs on eBay just a little while back... Didn't know that it was real.

[mike_z]

of course it's eligible! but it WON'T be nominated

 

As LMBTL (song) was eligible for the Grammies,

 

I do hope "Incredible" stands chances of getting at least a Grammy nomination next year. We'll see!

[Jimnezis]

love this song but still dont think it's gonna win,

[amelie]

love this song but still dont think it's gonna win,

 

winning isn't important, getting nominated and performing it on the Oscars is

[bronzey]

Thread title looks misleading though....

 

Agree with the rest, it's not oscar worthy.

[Nando Férri]

It won't make the final cut...

[Javito]

This thread should read "PRE-nomination" in the title. The song is not nominated yet, just submitted for consideration.

[Jeff Abbott]

for a second I thought it had already been nominated Edited December 17, 2013 at 02:39 PM by Jeff Abbott

[smw]

At least it's some additional exposure. I wonder if this is why her team just released the UNFINISHED SONGS recording sessions -- to feed into the hype?

 

Also -- there have been plenty of not-so-great nominations for Best Song at the Oscars. And some of those have won.

 

I think this song is lovely and sweet and simple. Was never meant to be anything more than that.

 

I think a song like Lana Del Rey's is powerful -- and it's supposed to be.

[Jessyka]

Basically every original song of every movie released.

[Bóól'át'í]

Do we really need a new thread announcing Unfinished Song eligible for an Oscar? I could understand a new thread for an actual nomination would warrant a new thread as her appearance on the Oscar telecast would definitely become a discussion. This news would've sufficed in the existing US thread. Just my two cents.

 

Btw, I don't see a nomination for the song.

[Xpresso]

Smw is right. It's happened it the past that an unknown song (from very little known movie) was nominated. Don't dimiss the underdog!! You guys would crap your pants if US was nominated and actually won! Don't forget that the members of the Academy Awards are older people...who love Céline and her Oscar performances!!