The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, will take place for the 96th time on March 11, 2024. As always, the winners will be chosen by the “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who have already announced the shortlists for several categories.
Three Oscar chances for “Barbie”
With Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night”, Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken”, three songs from “Barbie” are in the running for best original song. They are competing for this award with, among others, Olivia Rodrigo for “Can’t Catch Me Now”, Sharon Van Etten for “Quiet Eyes” and Jarvis Cocker for “Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)” from Asteroid City.
“Dance the Night” by Dua Lipa
In the preliminary round for the composition of the best original music, Mica Levi, Mark Ronson, Ludwig Göransson, Joe Hisaishi, John Williams, the late Robbie Robertson and Daniel Pemberton are currently on the shortlist, along with a few others. You can see the full shortlists from which the final nominees will be announced on January 11th here:
Best Original Song
- Asteroid City Cast – “Dear Alien (Who Art in Heaven)” from “Asteroid City”
- Becky G – “The Fire Inside” from “Flamin’ Hot”
- Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?” from “Barbie”
- Dua Lipa – “Dance the Night” from “Barbie”
- Eve Hewson & Oren Kinlan – “High Life” from “Flora and Son”
- Fantasia – “Superpower (I)” from “The Color Purple”
- Halle & Phylicia Pearl Mpasi – “Keep It Movin’” from “The Color Purple”
- Jon Batiste – “It Never Went Away” from “American Symphony”
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Eve Hewson – “Meet in the Middle” from “Flora and Son”
- Lenny Kravitz – “Road to Freedom” from “Rustin”
- Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky & Roisee – “Am I Dreaming” from “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”
- Olivia Rodrigo – “Can’t Catch Me Now” from “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”
- Osage Tribal Singers – “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon”
- Ryan Gosling – “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie”
- Sharon Van Etten – “Quiet Eyes” from “Past Lives”
Best Original Music
- Anthony Willis – “Saltburn”
- Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Jerskin Fendrix – “Poor Things”
- Joe Hisaishi – “The Boy and the Heron”
- John Williams – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
- Jon Batiste – “American Symphony”
- Kris Bowers – “The Color Purple”
- Laura Karpman – “American Fiction”
- Ludwig Göransson – “Oppenheimer”
- Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt – “Barbie”
- Mark Orton – “The Holdovers”
- Mica Levi – “The Zone of Interest”
- Michael Giacchino – “Society of the Snow”
- Robbie Robertson – “Killers of the Flower Moon”
- Thomas Newman – “Elemental”
The “Oscar” shortlists partly coincide with the nominations for the “Golden Globe” Awards 2024. The three “Barbie” tracks are also suggested there, as is the “Rustin” song “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz . Additionally, all six Golden Globe nominations for film music are also on the Academy Awards’ Best Original Score list.
If you want to remember the last Oscar awards ceremony, you can read about all the winners from 2023 here.