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Oscars Break Another Record With 105 Eligible Songs, But Trent Reznor’s ‘Mank’ Tune Isn’t One of Them
Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me” was written for David Fincher’s film, but it didn’t make the Academy’s largest-ever eligibility listSteve Pond | February 4, 2021 @ 5:16 PM Last Updated: February 5, 2021 @ 5:27 PM
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This year’s Oscars have set a new record for the largest number of entries ever in the Best Original Song category, but the 105 eligible songs do not include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ “(If Only You Could) Save Me,” a 1930s-style big band song from “Mank” that was recently nominated for the second annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards.
Oscars Score and Song Frontrunners Come Into Focus as Shortlist Approaches
Ludwig Göransson is among the past winners in contention.
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As voting opens for the Oscar shortlists on Feb. 1, the picture is slowly coming into focus: Academy composers and songwriters are faced with one of the most diverse batches of scores they’ve ever heard.
The approximately 350 members of the Academy music branch are sifting through dozens of films to try and single out 15 scores and 15 songs worthy of placement on its shortlists, which will be revealed Feb. 9. These preliminary choices will be narrowed down to five final nominees in each category, to be announced March 15.
Over the Moon turns Chinese legend into a musical animated feature gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
‘Over the Moon’ turns Chinese legend into a musical animated feature [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MOVIE-OVER-MOON:LA]
“Over the Moon,” the Netflix follow-up to Pearl Studio’s “Abominable,” continues the studio’s drive to present Asian stories in contemporary formats accessible to global audiences. It may be the first wide-release musical film to solely feature Asian American talent.
It spotlights the Chinese legend of Chang’e, the moon goddess who was banished there after denying a villain a magic elixir, separating her from her husband. The tale is told through the eyes and ears of Fei Fei, a modern Chinese teen (voiced by Cathy Ang) who learned the legend from her mother. After her mother’s death, Fei Fei decides to build a rocket to the moon to prove the story true.
Nomadland (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay).
Gold House is a nonprofit collective of Asian founders, creative voices and leaders hoping to unify the world’s largest populace–Asians and Pacific Islanders–to enable more authentic multicultural representation.
Who are the Gold List voters and and how many are there? They are more secretive than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who number about 90. According to Larisa Jiao, communications fellow at Gold House, the Gold List team has “decided to keep that number internal now.”
The inaugural Gold List has ten categories and is voted on by the Gold Open Advisory Council, Gold House Members (the premier nonprofit collective of leading API creatives, executives, and founders), CAPE Board Members and Advisors (the premier API-entertainment nonprofit), and other entertainment leaders.