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  Watch Adele's Sparkling, Oscar-Winning 'Skyfall' Performance

  February 24, 2013 – Adele's shining performance of "Skyfall" was a rare bright spot in the arduous slog that was the 85th Academy Awards telecast Sunday night (February 24). The song followed two hours of lame one-liners from host Seth MacFarlane (to paraphrase: "Women sure hold grudges, amiright?" / "Hollywood is full of Jews!" and literally: "boobs!") as well as Anne Hathaway's overpracticed "unpracticed" acceptance speech. …
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  Eat It, Affleck: Who Should Really Win the 2013 Oscars

  February 22, 2013 – For a while now, television has succeeded in making movies look bad, what with its opportunities for complex characters and enriching plotlines — but not so fast, TV!Movies were pretty damn good in 2012, which means the Oscars have a shot at not being a substitute for Ambien this Sunday night, unlike last year, when everyone except The Artist and Co. went home unhappy. …
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  Adele Leads 2013 Oscars Best Song Nominees, But It's Another Thin Crop

  January 10, 2013 – Frank Ocean wouldn't have been nominated, anyway. Though the artist behind SPIN's #1 album of 2012, channel ORANGE, briefly stirred Oscar hopes when he let slip that he'd written a song for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained soundtrack, it's probably for the best the director decided the graceful, generous ballad "Wiseman" didn't fit the film. …
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  Karen O, Arcade Fire, Beck, Fiona Apple, and Rick Ross Make Oscars Best Song Short List

  December 12, 2012 – Coming in at 75 songs and including such stinkers as Owl City's "When Can I See You Again?" (Wreck-It Ralph) and Holladay's "Never Had" (10 Years), the Oscars 2012 short list for "Best Original Song" isn't exactly the tidy thing one might hope for. Nevertheless, there are a handful of happy inclusions worth mentioning. …
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  Oscars to Actually Pick Five Best Song Nominees Next Year

  August 31, 2012 – Next year's Academy Awards ceremony might be a slightly less bizarre one for music. New rules disclosed yesterday will all but guarantee the best original song category has five nominees, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Now we can all get back to complaining about why the Oscar winners for best song are so lame. This year, due to a fluke of the Oscars' byzantine nominating rules, only two songs were up for the award. …
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  Hear the 2012 Oscar Nominees for Best Song (All Two of Them)

  January 24, 2012 – The Oscar nominations have been announced, and it looks like this year's ceremony should be much less of a pleasant surprise to music fans. Trent Reznor and musical co-conspirator Atticus Ross, who last year picked up their first Academy Award for their score to The Social Network, will be watching from home this year, despite their Girl With the Dragon Tattoo score receiving a Golden Globe nod and making it to the Oscar shortlist. …
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  Trent Reznor's 'Dragon Tattoo' Score Shortlisted for Oscars

  December 23, 2011 – Here's a sentence you wouldn't have expected a decade ago: Trent Reznor is contending for his second Academy Award. The Nine Inch Nails frontman's work with Atticus Ross on David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is among the 97 feature-length film scores shortlisted for the next Original Score Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed. …
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  Oscars' Best Song Short List: The National, She & Him (But No Madonna)

  December 20, 2011 – The Academy Awards ceremony occasionally makes for some unlikely musical pairings, whether that's Elliott Smith and Celine Dion sharing a stage or Three 6 Mafia beating out Dolly Parton. …
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  9 Oscar Snubs, Flubs, and Things to Love

  January 22, 2009 – Today's Academy Award nominations yielded a few surprises: Revolutionary Road was almost entirely ignored (and rightly so), while the little-movie-that-could, Slumdog Millionaire, snagged 10 nods -- not far behind The Curious Case of Brad Pitt... er, Benjamin Button, with a shocking 13. But mostly the list was kind of a snooze. To elaborate: 1) The Reader?!? It's about an illiterate Nazi statutory rapist. …
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