The Oscar nominations don't come out until Jan. 22, but the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has revealed the shortlists for a few of its nominations, including Best Original Song and Best Original Score. So we don't know who will be nominated yet, but at least we know who could be nominated, and that list includes Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave, and HUNTR/X. Billy Idol, too! Billy Idol could win an Oscar. He won't, but he could.
Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross already have two Oscars for Best Original Score, and now Nine Inch Nails have made the shortlist for their Tron: Ares song "As Alive As You Need Me To Be." Nick Cave, already nominated for a Golden Globe, is on the list for "Train Dreams," the end-credits song that he and Bryce Dessner contributed to the film of the same title. In fact, all of the Golden Globe nominees made the shortlist, including HUNTR/X's "Golden," the huge hit from Kpop Demon Hunters.
Miley Cyrus' "Dream As One" from Avatar: Fire And Ash and Miles Caton's "I Lied To You" from Sinners are on the shortlist, as are the two new songs from Wicked: For Good, Cynthia Erivo's "No Place Like Home" and Ariana Grande's "The Girl In The Bubble." (Those are the Golden Globe nominees.) The other songs in contention include Ed Sheeran's "Drive" from F1, Alice Smith and Miles Caton's "Last Time (I Seen The Sun)" from Sinners, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan's "Our Love" from The Ballad Of Wallis Island, Aiyana-Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest" from the Spike Lee joint of the same title, Sara Bareilles' "Salt Then Sour Then Sweet" from Come See Me In The Good Light, Nicholas Pike's "Sweet Dreams Of Joy" from Viva Verdi!, and Billy Idol and J. Ralph's "Dying To Live" from the documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead.
I know what you're thinking: What about Diane Warren? What, they're not even going to nominate her this year? Don't worry. Perennial nominee Warren still has a chance to show up to another Oscars and get disappointed again. "Dear Me," the Warren-written song that Kesha sings on the soundtrack to the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless, is on the shortlist.
As for Best Original Score, the shortlist includes Stereogum-friendly names like Nine Inch Nails for Tron: Ares, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another, Daniel Lopatin for Marty Supreme, Bryce Dessner for Train Dreams, Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia, Max Richter for Hamnet, Hildur Guðnadóttir for Hedda, and Ludwig Göransson for Sinners. They're in there with Hans Zimmer for F1, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Nicholas Britell for Jay Kelly, Nathan Johnson for Wake Up Dead Man, Simon Franglen for Avatar: Fire And Ash, Laura Karpman for Captain America: Brave New World, Volker Bertelmann for A House Of Dynamite, Bryan Tyler for Nuremberg, Kangding Ray for Sirât, Aaron Zigman for Truth & Treason, John Powell and Stephen Schwartz for Wicked: For Good, and — hey, look at that — Lesley Barber for Diane Warren: Relentless. How funny would it be if someone other than Diane Warren won an Oscar for writing music for a Diane Warren documentary?
Check out all of the Oscar shortlists here.
