The award season for 2019 is among us. The Grammy’s, the Golden Globes and the Oscars. In anticipation of the official nominations, the Oscars have revealed the shortlists for Best Original Song and Best Original Score. For the Best Original Song category, 15 songs have been shortlisted, including Thom Yorke’s “Suspirium”, Sampha’s “Treasure,” Sade’s “The Big Unknown”, Jónsi and Troye Sivan “Revelation”, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow,” and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “All the Stars,” mxdwn’s fourth pick for their Top 50 Best Songs of 2018.
For Best Original Score, short-listers includes Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury’s Annihilation, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Crazy Rich Asians, Avengers: Infinity War, and Isle of Dogs. See the full list of shortlisted songs and scores below. According to Pitchfork, this is the first time the Oscars have revealed its shortlists since 1979. Judges will condense each list to five, which will be revealed on January 22nd.
Last year’s list of nominees for song included Justin Timberlake, Sting, Mica Levi, Thomas Newman, and more others. The golden statuette was given to “City of Stars” by Justin Hurwitz, from the critically acclaimed film La La Land with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. The film also won the Best Original Music Score.
Best Original Song shortlist:
Willie Watson, Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson – “When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings” (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs)
Sampha – “Treasure” (Beautiful Boy)
Kendrick Lamar and SZA – “All The Stars” (Black Panther)
Jónsi and Troye Sivan – “Revelation” (Boy Erased)
Dolly Parton – “Girl in the Movies” (Dumplin’)
Arlissa – “We Won’t Move” (The Hate U Give)
Emily Blunt – “The Place Where Lost Things Go” (Mary Poppins Returns)
Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda – “Trip A Little Light Fantastic” (Mary Poppins Returns)
Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan and Mark Ronson – “Keep Reachin’” (Quincy)
Jennifer Hudson and Diane Warren – “I’ll Fight” (RBG)
Gal Gadot and Sarah Silverman – “A Place Called Slaughter Race” (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
The Coup and Lakeith Stanfield – “OYAHYTT” (Sorry to Bother You)
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper – “Shallow” (A Star is Born)
Thom Yorke – “Suspirium” (Suspiria)
Sade – “The Big Unknown” (Widows)
Best Original Score shortlist:
Annihilation
Avengers: Infinity War
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Crazy Rich Asians
The Death of Stalin
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Isle of Dogs
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Ready Player One
Vice
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
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