Academy Award for Best Music (Original Song)
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Nov 2, 2026
Ryan EllisHOST
So maybe that? But movie number one is Blues in the Night, and the coming attraction is trivia question for Blues in the Night.
Ryan EllisHOST
Apparently people thought the title song from this movie or even Chattanooga Choo Choo from Sun Valley Serenade would win the Best Song Oscar of 1941.
Ryan EllisHOST
That was back when they had, I think, 10 nominees.
Ryan EllisHOST
But which song did win the Oscar for Best Song that year? Okay, Movie Monkeys, let's hear from you.
ChrisHOST
Yeah, it was written for that film.
ChrisHOST
Nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
MaxHOST
Did it win? Nah.
MaxHOST
Oh.
Movie GuruHOST
but it ended up becoming a smash success on VHS in Canada.
Movie GuruHOST
It was nominated for Best Original Song and Best Visual Effects Oscars, but did not win them.
Movie GuruHOST
According to IMDb.com, Mushnik is the only main character in the movie who doesn't actually sing, despite having singing parts in the stage musical.
Movie GuruHOST
and the late John Candy was originally offered the Mr. Mushnick role, but he turned it down.
GregHOST
Good for him.
GregHOST
And I believe he did do a new song, but it's just an end credit song, which is not eligible for Best Original Song anymore.
AlanHOST
Right.
GregHOST
Did you know that? There's some new mandate with the Oscars.
ChrisHOST
In 1979, she records It Goes Like It Goes for the film Norma Rae.
ChrisHOST
The song wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
ChrisHOST
In 1981, she sings Randy Newman's One More Hour for the film Ragtime, picking up yet another Oscar nomination.
ChrisHOST
So when Paramount Pictures is putting together the romantic military drama An Officer and a Gentleman, music supervisor Joe Sill brings in songwriter Will Jennings.
ChrisHOST
On November 6th, 1982, Up Where We Belong hits number one on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for three weeks.
ChrisHOST
It sells over one million copies in the US alone.
ChrisHOST
It wins the 1983 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, alongside a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
ChrisHOST
In the UK, it peaks at number seven in February 1983.
Michael BowlingHOST
And it became one of the most recognizable songs in Disney history.
Michael BowlingHOST
It also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Michael BowlingHOST
I find its placement in the film particularly meaningful.
Michael BowlingHOST
Before Stromboli, Pleasure Island, Lampwick, and Monstro, we hear a song about hope, dreams, and the possibility that something wonderful can happen.
ZachHOST
Now, someone, I saw some chattering somewhere in my week off.
ZachHOST
I've been disconnected, so things were coming to me in pieces and flashbacks and echoes, if you will, of saying that the Oscars generally don't like to award best original song to songs that aren't in the movie.
ZachHOST
And apparently, I Knew It, I Knew You plays only in the credits.
ZachHOST
So I was like, well...
MadelineHOST
That's a really interesting piece of lore.
MadelineHOST
I actually am not...
MadelineHOST
I don't keep up with Oscar Best Original Song.
MadelineHOST
That's something that I would only keep up with when Taylor's nominated.
Eoin SheahanHOST
Footballer of the Year and just wasn't to be there.
Arthur O'DeaPANELIST
Yeah, Bob Dylan won an Oscar before, I think in about 2000, Best Original Song.
Arthur O'DeaPANELIST
He skipped.
Arthur O'DeaPANELIST
He had to do a video link in from Australia somewhere.
Kevin BrownHOST
me.
Kevin BrownHOST
Matt Gordon was a Polish-American lyricist for the stage and film, nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song nine times in 11 years.
Kevin BrownHOST
Holy fuck.
Kevin BrownHOST
That's pretty heavyweight, dude.
Maxine Margo RubinHOST
And it's performed when Doolittle learns from his parrot Polynesia that talking to animals is possible, inspiring him to master creature languages.
Maxine Margo RubinHOST
At the 40th Academy Awards in April 1968, the song won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
Maxine Margo RubinHOST
And listen to who it beat out.
Maxine Margo RubinHOST
It beat out Burt Bacharach, Andre Previn, and the tracks like The Bare Necessities, Mrs. Robinson, and You Only Live Twice.
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