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3 unusual facts about Academy Award for Best Original Song


Festival of the Lion King

The show features Elton John and Tim Rice's award-winning music from the movie.

Ray Heindorf

Between 1943 and 1969 he was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards, 17 nominations for Best Score and 1 nomination for Best Song.

West Leyden High School

He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1982, in the category Best Original Song for co-writing the song Eye of the Tiger from the film Rocky III.


Al Dubin

The song Lullaby of Broadway, which he wrote with Warren for the musical film, Gold Diggers of 1935 won the 1936 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Arne Glimcher

Glimcher received an Academy Award Best Original Song nomination for the film's original song, Beautiful Maria of My Soul, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the same category.

Frayser Boy

At the 78th Academy Awards, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" along with Three 6 Mafia members DJ Paul and Juicy J.

Jeff Bass

"Lose Yourself," written by BMI affiliates Eminem and Jeff Bass, won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 75th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood.

Lovely to Look At

The song was nominated for an Academy Award when it was first used in the 1935 version of Roberta.

Lyrically, Alan Bergman

Alan and Marilyn Bergman have been nominated fifteen times for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and have won twice, at the 41st Academy Awards for "Windmills of Your Mind", and for "The Way We Were" at the 46th Academy Awards, both winning songs are featured on this album.

Markéta Irglová

She won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly" at the 80th ceremony, which was co-written with Glen Hansard.

Michael Gore

He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1981 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title.

Miss Misery

Featured in the closing credits and the soundtrack of the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, the song was nominated for Best Original Song in the 1998 Academy Awards.

Part of Your World

Despite being the film's theme song and critically lauded, "Part of Your World" did not receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, while The Little Mermaids "Under the Sea" and "Kiss the Girl" did.

Rollo Armstrong

He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Song for his work with A.R. Rahman and Dido on 'If I Rise', featuring in the 2010 Danny Boyle film 127 Hours.

Rule the World

The song was summited for an nomination for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards but didn't get nominated.


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