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”