There are 15 songs still in the mix for the 2022 Best Original Song Oscar after the announcement of the shortlist today. Tracks co-written by The Sparks Brothers, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Carol King, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Billie Eilish made the cut. Five songs will be announced as the final nominees on Tuesday, February 8.
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Billie Eilish and Finneas are on track to become the first Oscar-nominated Original Song contender to have already won the equivalent Grammy Award. Because the film was originally scheduled to release in early 2020, “No Time To Die” took the Grammy for Best Song Written For Visual Media this past March at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
Other notable songwriters to make the shortlist include Van Morrison, U2, Brian Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Pasek & Paul, and last year’s Oscar winner in this category, H.E.R.
Here is a full list of this year’s shortlist contenders.
“So May We Start?” from “Annette”
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast”
“Right Where I Belong” from “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road”
“Automatic Woman” from “Bruised”
“Dream Girl” from “Cinderella”
“Beyond The Shore” from “CODA”
“The Anonymous Ones” from “Dear Evan Hansen”
“Just Look Up” from “Don’t Look Up”
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”
“Guns Go Bang” from “The Harder They Fall”
“Be Alive” from “King Richard”
“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from “Respect”
“Your Song Saved My Life” from “Sing 2”
Additionally, 15 Original Scores were also shortlisted. They include scores by familiar composers such as Nicolas Britell, Alexandre Desplat, Hans Zimmer, Jonny Greenwood, Alberto Iglesias, Carter Burwell, and Germaine Franco.
Those compositions are as follows:
“Being the Ricardos”
“Candyman”
“Don’t Look Up”
“Dune”
“Encanto”
“The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun”
“The Green Knight”
“The Harder They Fall”
“King Richard”
“The Last Duel”
“No Time to Die”
“Parallel Mothers”
“The Power of the Dog”
“Spencer”
“The Tragedy of Macbeth”
The 2022 Academy Awards nominees will be announced on Tuesday, February 8.