Yesterday, the Academy announced that the following 39 films are eligible to nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Song of 2011.  Considering how the awards season has gone so far, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that few of the songs that I truly enjoyed hearing this year are eligible.  Still, it is nice to see that Capt. America will have a chance to score a nomination for “Star-Spangled Man.”

Then again, it would also be nice to see something from The Muppets win because I’m sure Bret McKenzie would give a perfectly charming acceptance speech.

One final reaction to this list: there’s a movie called White Irish Drinkers?  

Yay!

• “The World I Knew” from “African Cats”
• “Lay Your Head Down” from “Albert Nobbs”
• “Star Spangled Man” from “Captain America: The First Avenger”
• “Collision of Worlds” from “Cars 2”
• “Dakkanaga Dugu Dugu” from “DAM999”
• “DAM999 Theme Song” from “DAM999”
• “Mujhe Chod Ke” from “DAM999”
• “Rainbird” from “Dirty Girl”
• “Keep On Walking” from “The First Grader”
• “Where the River Goes” from “Footloose”
• “Hello Hello” from “Gnomeo & Juliet”
• “Love Builds a Garden” from “Gnomeo & Juliet”
• “Bridge of Light” from “Happy Feet Two”
• “The Mighty Sven” from “Happy Feet Two”
• “Never Be Daunted” from “happythankyoumoreplease”
• “Hell and Back” from “Hell and Back Again”
• “The Living Proof” from “The Help”
• “Coeur Volant” from “Hugo”
• “It’s How We Play” from “I Don’t Know How She Does It”
• “When the Heart Dies” from “In the Land of Blood and Honey”
• “Ja Nao Estar” from “José and Pilar”
• “The Keeper” from “Machine Gun Preacher”
• “Life’s a Happy Song” from “The Muppets”
• “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets”
• “Pictures in My Head” from “The Muppets”
• “Summer Song” from “The Music Never Stopped”
• “Imaginary Friends” from “Olive”
• “Sparkling Day” from “One Day”
• “Taking You With Me” from “Our Idiot Brother”
• “The Greatest Song I Ever Heard” from “POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”
• “Hot Wings” from “Rio”
• “Let Me Take You to Rio” from “Rio” 
• “Real in Rio” from “Rio”
• “Shelter” from “Take Shelter”
• “Gathering Stories” from “We Bought a Zoo”
• “Pop” from “White Irish Drinkers”
• “Think You Can Wait” from “Win Win”
• “The Backson Song” from “Winnie the Pooh”
• “So Long” from “Winnie the Pooh”