Best Original Song is the lone Academy Award that can be untethered from its origin. By definition, categories like acting, directing, cinematography, set, and costume design are inherently anchored ...

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences harmonized its Original Song Oscar nominations Thursday morning. Read by Saturday Night’s Rachel Sennott and Wicked’s Bowen Yang, the pair announced ...

While last year’s Oscar original song short list was dominated by pop stars such as Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo, this year’s lineup is filled with several ditties from musically themed ...

Last year, the Academy Awards' race for best original song could be fairly boiled down to a two-horse race between two deeply different — and equally excellent — songs from the blockbuster Barbie ...

Whether "Emilia Pérez" or Diane Warren wins the Oscar for Best Original Song, it will be victory for Netflix. Regardless of who wins, Netflix seems bound to collect an Oscar for Best Original Song, ...

Heading into the 2024 Academy Awards, a pair of Barbie tracks were favorites to win Best Original Song: Billie Eilish’s ballad “What Was I Made For?” — which took home the same award at the Golden ...

Three songs from 'Barbie,' as well as tracks from 'The Super Mario Bros. Movie,' 'Rustin' and 'She Came to Me' were nominated Tommy McArdle is a writer-reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. Tommy ...

Tonight, the 96th Academy Awards will air and award some brass to the top achievements in film over the last year. And it seems that Billie Eilish is set to win her second Best Original Song Oscar in ...

Memorable songs have been synonymous with the Disney brand for decades, captivating audiences and earning immense respect from critics, and especially Oscar voters. Approaching its centennial, the ...

“Weird Al” Yankovic has never gotten enough credit for his original, non-parody songs. That’s a truism that’s come up constantly throughout his 40-year career, and it’s a major plot point in the ...

I assume the song “I Lied to You” from Sinners is gonna be a major contender and having just come out of my first viewing of the film all I can ask is they’d get to perform the entirity of the song on ...

This year's crop of Oscar nominees for best original song may not have a James Bond theme or a ubiquitous Disney banger, but it's got range: a viral dance number, a pair of ballads by major pop stars, ...