It's Oscar season, which means it's time again to dig into our two favorite categories: Original Song and Original Score. Who will win? Who should win? And who got snubbed? NPR Music editor Hazel ...

Last year, the Academy Awards' race for best original song could be fairly boiled down to a two-horse race between two deeply different — and equally excellent — songs from the blockbuster Barbie ...

This year’s original-song competition features something for everyone: tunes from live-action musicals, animated features, dramas and documentaries, plus the annual entry from 15-time nominee Diane ...

Oscars Best Original Song Commentary (Updated Dec. 11, 2025): With 15 songs angling for the shortlist, there’s reserved seating for the animated frontrunner — “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” — and ...

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences harmonized its Original Song Oscar nominations Thursday morning. Read by Saturday Night’s Rachel Sennott and Wicked’s Bowen Yang, the pair announced ...

Anyone with a finger on the pulse of popular music knows what a whirlwind Taylor Swift has been on lately. After completing her seemingly endless Eras Tour and embarking on a nearly six-month social ...

Songs by Pharrell, Elton John, and Lainey Wilson, as well as multiple selections from Emelia Pérez, have made the Oscars’ shortlist for Best Original Song. Pharrell’s “Piece by Piece,” the title track ...

Members of the music branch culled this shortlist of 15 songs from a master list of 65 eligible songs. By Paul Grein “Golden,” the megahit from KPop Demon Hunters, and two songs each from Sinners and ...

The first new Wicked: For Good song previewed is an Elphaba number, called “No Place Like Home.” This is, of course, a direct callback to Judy Garland and the original 1939 Wizard of Oz. You can check ...

Whether "Emilia Pérez" or Diane Warren wins the Oscar for Best Original Song, it will be victory for Netflix. Regardless of who wins, Netflix seems bound to collect an Oscar for Best Original Song, ...

I assume the song “I Lied to You” from Sinners is gonna be a major contender and having just come out of my first viewing of the film all I can ask is they’d get to perform the entirity of the song on ...