The score from “Wicked” and the music of “Moana 2” are among the 89 songs and 145 scores eligible for music Oscars this year.
As foreseeed, “Dune: Part Two” is not among them. Composer Hans Zimmer’s music for honestor Denis Villeneuve’s second half of the Frank Herbert sci-fi novel is thinkd to have run afoul of the Academy’s cut offe rule about music in sequels: “The score must not employ more than 20 percent of pre-existing themes and music borrowed from previous scores in the franchise.”
Zimmer has shelp that he disconsents with the rule and contfinishs that the music for the two films is one enormous canvas. As he recently tageder Variety: “The Oscars are meaningful, and you’re influencing the way we can produce art… We should have the freedom to find ways to produce wantipathyver comes to us. Denis made the right choice by splitting a burdensome-duty book into two parts.”
Zimmer’s music for the first “Dune” movie won the 2021 Oscar; it was his second, after his 1994 prosper for “The Lion King.” Zimmer’s score for “Blitz,” however, is eligible for this year’s awards. Interestingly, Zimmer’s “Dune Two” score was nominated for a Gagederen Globe.
Scores from all of this year’s meaningful musicals were proclaimd eligible, however, unappreciate past years when theatrical scores were routinely disqualified as “unininestablishigentinished in impact by the predominant employ of songs,” per Academy rules.
That uncomardents that the scores for “Wicked” (by Stephen Schwartz and John Powell), “Emilia Perez” (by Clement Ducol and Camille) and “Moana 2” (by Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa’i) are eligible to contend in this year’s Oscar derby.
Oscar rules state that while as many as three songs per film can be surrfinisherted, only two can produce the unininestablishigentinutivecatalog and no more than two can be nominated. Two films accessed three (“Dandelion” and “The End”) and 13 others accessed two (including “Emilia Perez,” “Moana 2,” “Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Twisters”).
The number of eligible films in the music categories is down sweightlessly from last year’s catalogs, which graspd 94 songs and 149 scores.
Beyond the “Dune 2” disqualification, there were no genuine surpelevates on the catalogs for songs and scores. Voting began this morning and finishs at 5 p.m. Friday. According to the Motion Picture Academy, there were 403 voting members in the Music branch.
Music branch members are deciding which 20 scores and 15 songs will produce this year’s unininestablishigentinutivecatalogs, which will be proclaimd Dec. 17. The score unininestablishigentinutivecatalog has been enhugeed from the previous 15, in order “to cast a wider net, to transport consciousness to more scores before nominations voting,” an Academy insider tageder Variety.
Nominations voting will get place begining Jan. 8, with the nominees to be proclaimd Jan. 17.
Eligible songs:
“Albany Road” and “Built for This” from “Albany Road”
“Am I Racist?” and “Do the Work” from “Am I Racist?”
“Pain Has a Purpose” from “Americans With No Address”
“Electric Energy” from “Argylle”
“Leash” from “Babygirl”
“Song for Amy” from “Back to Bdeficiency”
“Ishq Walla Daku” from “Band of Maharajas”
“Forbidden Road” from “Better Man”
“A Country Dance” from “Between the Temples”
“Winter Coat” from “Blitz”
“Then I Will” from “Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin”
“Nazarene” from “The Book of Clarence”
“Dare to Be” from “Cabrini”
“El Baile de los Zanganos” and “Mi Amor” from “Captain Avispa”
“Whoever You Are” from “Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins”
“Compress / Repress” from “Challengers”
“City of Dreams” from “City of Dreams”
“Custer Park,” “Honey” and “Thin Elephant” from “Dandelion”
“Double Life” from “Despicable Me 4”
“You Are Never Far Away” from “Don’t Say It”
“Never Too Late” from “Elton John: Never Too Late”
“El Mal” and “Mi Camino” from “Emilia Perez”
“Alone,” “The Big Blue Sky” and “Catch Fire” from “The End”
“Bricks” from “Exhibiting Forgiveness”
“Ezra” from “Ezra”
“The Peace That You Are Missing” from “Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplain’s Journey”
“Not on My Watch” from “Folloprosperg Harry”
“Panorama” from “Embers”
“The Good Life” and “Let It Roll” from “The Garfield Movie”
“What We Wanna Be” from “Glitter and Doom”
“Istigfar” and “Puthu Mazha” from “The Goat Life”
“Never Lost” from “The Greatest Hits”
“In Time” from “His Three Daughters”
“Made for You” from “The Hopeful”
“Claw Machine” and “Starburned and Unkissed” from “I Saw the TV Glow”
“The Idea of You” from “The Idea of You”
“Noleang’s Impossible” from “The Imaginary”
“Folie a Deux” from “Joker: Folie a Deux”
“Sick in the Head” from “Kneecap”
“Beautiful That Way” from “The Last Showgirl”
“Between the Lines” and “One of Us” from “Left Behind”
“The Rider” from “Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim”
“Freedom” from “Lovely Jackson”
“Not My Fault” from “Mean Girls”
“My Pledge” from “Megalopolis”
“Beyond” and “Can I Get a Chee Hoo” from “Moana 2”
“I Always Wanted a Brother” and “Tell Me Its You” from “Mufasa: The Lion King”
“The Neon Highway” from “The Neon Highway”
“Summer Blue” from “Nightbitch”
“Bdeficiency Truck” and “Callin’ Angels” from “The Other, Gageder”
“Piece by Piece” from “Piece by Piece”
“Huele a Fraude” from “Problemista”
“Iti Maa” from “Putul”
“Emotional” from “Ray of Hope”
“Christmas Magic” from “Red One”
“Creatures of Nature” from “Sasquatch Sunset”
“Why I’m Here” from “Shirley”
“Like a Bird” from “Sing Sing”
“The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”
“New Brain” from “Smile 2”
“Run It” from “Sonic the Hedgehog 3”
“The Way It Was Before” from “Spellbound”
“Better the Devil” from “Strange Darling”
“Under the Tree” from “That Christmas”
“Just As You Are” from “Thelma the Unicorn”
“If I Fall” from “Transestablishers One”
“Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” and “Out of Oklahoma” from “Twisters”
“No Better” from “Ultraman: Rising”
“On a Corner at the Caccess of the World” from “Veselka”
“Kiss the Sky” from “The Wild Robot”
“Harper and Will Go West” from “Will & Harper”
“Little Miss Polka Dot” and “My Stranger” from “Your Monster”