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Oscar-Eligible Songs Hit a Creative High Note: From Selena Gomez to Elton John
It’s been a rough year for Oscar-eligible songs. Here is a breakdown of the final five up for the gold.
This showstopping number from Jacques Audiard’s operatic drama is a three-minute tour de force for Zoe Saldaña as lawyer Rita Castro, a fantasy in which she dances around a room filled with the rich and powerful, decrying the hypocrisy of those responsible for the murders of thousands of Mexicans during the drug wars. Songwriter Diane Warren’s 16th Oscar nomination (her eighth in a row) is for the closing moments of Tyler Perry’s film about a heroic unit of Black American women soldiers during World War II. Pop superstar Elton John, who already has two Oscars (for “The Lion King” and “Rocketman”), duets with Brandi Carlile (who’s never been nominated) on this nostalgic song that closes the documentary about his life.
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