94 Songs, 149 Original Scores Eligible in Oscar Music Categories (EXCLUSIVE)

Ninety-four songs and 149 scores have been deemed eligible in the music categories for the 96th annual Academy Awards, Variety has learned.

Voting began Thursday, with 390 members of the Academy music branch eligible to vote in this year’s competition. And for the first time in years, there appear to be no surprises or glaring omissions.

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Any film can submit up to three songs, and the “Barbie” entries were as expected: Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made for,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” and the Mark Ronson-Andrew Wyatt song “I’m Just Ken.”

Five other films submitted the maximum of three songs, including two from Disney: the live-action “The Little Mermaid,” with “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt” and “Wild Uncharted Waters,” all by Alan Menken (who won Oscars for the original in 1989) and Lin-Manuel Miranda; and “Wish,” the Julia Michaels-Benjamin Rice tunes including “I’m a Star,” “This Is the Thanks I Get?!” and “This Wish.”

The “Wish” score by Dave Metzger is also eligible, but “The Little Mermaid” score was deemed ineligible, sources tell Variety. It ran afoul of the Oscar rule that disallows a score that has been “diluted by the use of pre-existing music” as it was largely based on the original.

Alexandre Desplat’s score for Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” along with the scores for “Wonka” and “Flora and Son,” were also disqualified for violating another Academy rule: scores “diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs,” sources say.

All three films, however, qualified in the song category: “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven” from “Asteroid City”; “A World of Your Own” from the “Wonka” musical; and “High Life” and “Meet in the Middle” from “Flora and Son.”

As usual, veteran Diane Warren has submitted multiple songs, most prominently “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot” and “Gonna Be You” from “80 for Brady.” But she also has one from “The Magician’s Elephant” and a co-writing credit on “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.” She has been nominated 14 times since 1987, without a win, although she did receive an honorary Oscar last year “for her genius, generosity and passionate commitment to the power of song in film.”

Two new songs in “The Color Purple” are eligible: “Keep It Movin'” and the end title song “Superpower.”

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is eligible in both score and song categories, with the music by the late Robbie Robertson and a song, “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” by the Osage Tribal Singers passing muster with the Academy music branch executive committee.

As expected, songs from “American Symphony,” “Elemental,” “Flora and Son,” “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” “Rustin,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” and “Trolls Band Together” are on the list for Academy voters to choose.

The 149 eligible scores include virtually all of those that have been talked about for awards in recent weeks. Voting ends at 5 p.m. Monday. Shortlists for each category (the 15 top vote-getters in each) will be announced on Dec. 21, and music-branch voters then get to decide the final five nominees in each category. Those will be announced on Jan. 23.

Eligible Songs

“American Symphony”: “It Never Went Away”
“Asteroid City”: “Dear Alien Who Art in Heaven”
“Barbie”: “Dance the Night,” “I’m Just Ken,” “What Was I Made For”
“The Beanie Bubble”: “This”
“Bella”: “The Easy Way”
“Bobi Wine: The People’s President”: “Everything’s Gonna Be Fine”
“The Boy and the Heron”: “Spinning Globe”
“Carmen”: “Slip Away”
“Champions”: “Tell Somebody That You Love Them Right Now”
“Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”: “My Sweet Baby”
“The Color Purple”: “Superpower,” “Keep It Movin'”
“Creed III”: “Blood, Sweat & Tears”
“Dicks: The Musical”: “Out Alpha the Alpha”
“Dreamin’ Wild”: “When a Dream Is Beautiful”
“Drift”: “It Would Be”
“Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”: “Wings of Time”
“80 for Brady”: “Gonna Be You”
“Elemental”: “Steal the Show”
“The Face of the Faceless”: “Barala Tribal Song,” “Ek Sapna Mera Suhana,” “Jalta Hai Suraj”

“Flamin’ Hot”: “The Fire Inside”
“Flora and Son”: “High Life,” “Meet in the Middle”
“A Good Person”: “The Best Part,” “I Hate Myself,” “Stardust”
“Heart of Stone”: “Quiet”
“Here. Is. Better”: “A Little More Time”
“The Home Fairy”: “Amar em Segredo”
“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”: “Can’t Catch Me Now”
“The Inventor”: “From This Tiny Seed”
“The Iron Claw”: “Live That Way Forever”
“Jacob the Baker”: “Better Times”
“Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister”: “It’s Precious We Have It Today”
“John Wick: Chapter 4”: “Eye for an Eye”
“Journey to Bethlehem”: “Mother to a Savior and King”
“Killers of the Flower Moon:”: “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)”
“King Coal”: “King Coal”
“Knights of Santiago”: “Las Navas de Tolosa”
“Leo”: “When I Was Ten”
“The Little Mermaid”: “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt,” “Wild Uncharted Waters”
“The Magician’s Elephant”: “Found”
“M3gan”: “Tell Me Your Dreams”
“My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”: “We Are All Together”
“My Love Affair With Marriage”: “Lion / My Love Affair With Marriage”
“Nimona”: “T-Rex”
“Nyad”: “Find a Way”
“Origin”: “Falling Into Place,” “I Am”
“Orlando, My Political Biography”: “Pharma Coliberation”
“Our Son”: “Always Be My Man”
“Past Lives”: “Quiet Eyes”
“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie”: “Down Like That,” “Learning to Fly”
“The Peasants”: “End of Summer”
“Prisoner’s Daughter”: “Shotgun Clown”
“Radical”: “Sader”
“The Road Dog”: “Remember Me”
“Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken”: “Rise,” “This Moment”
“Rustin”: “Road to Freedom”
“Saving Ana”: “Missing Children”
“Scream VI”: “In My Head,” “Still Alive”
“She Came to Me”: “Addicted to Romance”
“Silver Dollar Road”: “Wounded Heart”
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”: “Am I Dreaming”
“Spinning Gold”: “Greatest Time”
“The Starling Girl”: “Ace Up My Sleeve”
“State of the Unity”: “One Mile,” “Songbird,” “Hides”
“Stephen Curry Underrated”: “Lil Fish, Big Pond”
“Strays”: “All of You”
“The Super Mario Bros. Movie”: “Peaches”
“Suzume”: “Kanata Haluka.” “Suzume”
“Sweetwater”: “Taking Me Higher”
“Theater Camp”: “Camp Isn’t Home”
“They Cloned Tyrone”: “Drunk AF”
“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”: “On My Soul”
“Trolls Band Together”: “Better Place (Reunion)”
“Uncharitable”: “All of Our Dreams”
“We Dare to Dream”: “Don’t Need to Sleep”
“Wish”: “I’m a Star,” “This Is the Thanks I Get?!,” “This Wish”
“Wonka”: “A World of Your Own”

Eligible Scores

All of Us Strangers

American Fiction

American Symphony

Anselm

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

Baby Ruby

Barbie

The Beanie Bubble

Beau Is Afraid

Big George Foreman

Blue Beetle

Blue Jean

Book Club: The Next Chapter

Bottoms

The Boy and the Heron

The Boys in the Boat

The Burial

Butcher’s Crossing

Carmen

Cassandro

Chevalier

Cocaine Bear

The Color Purple

Common Ground

The Creator

Creed III

Daliland

The Deepest Breath

Dicks: The Musical

Dream Scenario

Dreamin’ Wild

Drift

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

80 for Brady

Eileen

Elemental

The End We Start From

The Equalizer 3

Every Body

The Face of the Faceless

Ferrari

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddie’s

Flamin’ Hot

The Flash

Foe

Fool’s Paradise

Freud’s Last Session

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Golda

Good Grief

A Good Person

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

Hadik

A Haunting in Venice

Heart of Stone

Here. Is. Better.

The Holdovers

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

The Inventor

Invisible Beauty

The Iron Claw

It Ain’t Over

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise

John Wick: Chapter 4

Journey to Bethlehem

Jules

The Killer

Killers of the Flower Moon

Knock at the Cabin

Landscape With Invisible Hand

The League

Leave the World Behind

Leo

The Lesson

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Mafia Mamma

The Magician’s Elephant

The Marvels

Master Gardener

Migration

A Million Miles Away

The Miracle Club

Miranda’s Victim

The Monkey King

Monster

The Mother

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

My Love Affair With Marriage

Napoleon

Nimona

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture

The Nun II

Nyad

Once Within a Time

Oppenheimer

Origin

Past Lives

PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie

The Peasants

The Persian Version

The Pigeon Tunnel

Polite Society

Poor Things

The Promised Land

Radical

Reptile

Ruby Gelman, Teenage Kraken

Rustin

Saltburn

Scream VI

Sharper

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

She Came to Me

Shortcomings

Silver Dollar Road

Sitting in Bars with Cake

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

Society of the Snow

A Song Film By Kishi Bashi: “Omoiyari”

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stamped from the beginning

Starbright

The Starling Girl

State of the Unity

Stephen Curry: Underrated

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Story Ave

Strays

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Suzume

Sweetwater

The Teachers’ Lounge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

They Cloned Tyrone

A Thousand and One

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

2018 (Everyone Is a Hero)

Walid

War Pony

What Happens Later

Wish

Your Fat Friend

The Zone of Interest

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