You can’t escape her. You can only hope to contain her. Yes, Diane Warren is threatening to earn her 15th Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category. Despite winning an honorary Oscar last year, Warren is obsessed with getting a “real” one, and one of her two contenders this time around, “The Fire Inside” from Eva Longoria‘s “Flamin’ Hot,” has made the shortlist. You’ve been warned. The good news for producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan is that Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Baptiste, and Metro Boomin, among others, may be performing on the Dolby Theater stage on Oscar night.

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This year’s Oscars featured one of the more eclectic nights for musical performances in the recent history of the telecast. Not only did you have the massive A-listers, but there was also a Bollywood song, one of the most decorated songwriters, and David Byrne rounding out the night.

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Coming into Oscars Sunday, it was assumed that Lady Gaga wouldn’t be on hand to perform her “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick.” But before the awards show, it was revealed that she would be attending and performing the song.

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Diane Warren is in an elite club. Her 13th Oscar nomination in the Best Original Song category puts her among some of the greatest songwriters of all time. Sammy Cahn (23 nominations), Johnny Mercer (18 nods), Alan Menken (14 nominations), and even Randy Newman (13 nominations). In fact, she’s been recognized by her peers in the Academy more than legends such as Henry Mancini (11 nods), Burt Bacharach (5 nods), or Elton John (4 nods), among others.

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If you tuned in at 8:00 PM EST for the Academy Awards, then odds are you missed some of the best moments of the evening. As expected, the Academy broadcast the Best Original Song performances during the pre-show, with standout performances by Celeste, H.E.R., Leslie Odom, Jr., Laura Pausini, Daniel Pemberton, Molly Sandén and Diane Warren mixed in with red carpet moments galore.

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John Legend, H.E.R., Janelle Monae, Leslie Odom, Jr., and Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell? Yes, the shortlist for the 2021 Original Song Academy Award is full of surprises. But, happily, few snubs this time around.

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105 songs were submitted and members of the Academy’s Music Branch vote to determine both the shortlist and the eventual nominees.

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Film festivals are tricky business for filmmakers. Yes, they provide instant buzz, as a successful debut at Cannes, TIFF, Venice, or Sundance can do wonders for the publicity for your project. However, there are two edges on that sword because a negative debut can almost completely crater a film. And sadly, that happens more times than we like to admit. This year, it appears that might have happened with Mark Wahlberg’s TIFF film, “Good Joe Bell.”

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According to Solstice Studios, the distributor is moving forward with the release of the highly-anticipated film, now retitled “Joe Bell,” but the film isn’t going to be the same one that was screened in Toronto.

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“Here we go again,” Diane Warren says. The Grammy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner has jumped on the phone to discuss “Io sì (Seen)” a beautiful ballad sung by Italian pop star Laura Pausini from Edoardo Ponti’s “The Life Ahead.” A song that also puts her right back in the middle of awards season. And you can get an exclusive first look at the music video for the song, also directed by Ponti, embedded in this post.

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THR hosts only their second Songwriters Roundtable on this week’s “Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter.” The conversation includes Academy Award frontrunner Mark Ronson for “Shallow” (“A Star is Born”), in addition to nominee Diane Warren for “I’ll Fight” (“RBG”). The other songwriters include David Crosby (“Little Pink Houses”), Kesha (“On the Basis of Sex”), Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”), Tim McGraw (“Free Solo”), and Jack Antonoff (“Love, Simon”).

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Following the revelation that only two of the Best Original Song nominees would be included on the upcoming “three hours and no longer” Oscar telecast, there was significant public and private backlash.  The show’s producers, Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, had already dealt with a huge controversy over their original host, Kevin Hart.  Things didn’t get any better after it was revealed only “Shallow” from “A Star is Born” and “All the Stars” from “Black Panther” would be performed live on a telecast that doesn’t have an official host.

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