There are 75 songs on the Academy's shortlist, and some are kinda surprising.
It's pretty much a given that Adele is going to get an Academy Award nomination for "Skyfall," her song from the new James Bond movie. The rest of the field for Best Original Song is wide open, and a shortlist of 75 songs was released yesterday. Only a few songs will actually get nominated, and some of them are....pretty interesting.
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Matthew McConaughey for "Magic Mike"
McConaughey has a good chance of getting an Oscar nomination for his scene-stealing performance in Magic Mike, but now there's a strong possibility that he could also win for co-writing "Ladies of Tampa," a raunchy ditty on the movie's soundtrack.
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Rick Ross for "Django Unchained"
Both Rick Ross and John Legend are eligible for songs on the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's new movie, but Ross's track is fantastic and may be a dark horse contender.
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Ryan Miller of Guster for "Safety Not Guaranteed"
Though Mark Duplass performs "Big Machine" in the indie comedy, it was Miller composed the song and scored the film.
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