Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 42 original songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered for the 78th Academy Awards®.

The original songs, along with the motion picture, are listed below in alphabetical order:

"Along the River" from "End of the Spear"
"Angels Talk" from "Angels with Angels"
"Butterfly" from "Because of Winn-Dixie"
"Can't Take It In" from "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
"Closer Every Day" from "Freezerburn"
"Dicholo" from "The Constant Gardener"
"Do the Hippogriff" from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
"Dreamer" from "Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story"
"Face of Faith" from "Rumor Has It"
"Fight for the Children" from "Palindromes"
"Finding Home" from "Finding Home"
"Great Big World" from "Hookwinked"
"Have a Little Faith" from "The Theory of Everything"
"Hustle & Flow (It Ain't Over)" from "Hustle & Flow"
"(I'd Have It All) If I Had Drew" from "My Date with Drew"
"If I Apologize" from "Mirrormask"
"I'll Be Near You" from "Bee Season"
"I'll Whip Ya Head Boy" from "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"
"In the Deep" from "Crash"
"It Ain't Over Yet” from "Racing Stripes"
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle & Flow"
"I've Gotta See You Smile" from "Because of Winn-Dixie"
"Mad Hot Ballroom" from "Mad Hot Ballroom"
"Move Away and Shine" from "Thumbsucker"
"My Brother, My People" from "Blues by the Beach"
"Nobody Jesus But You" from "Palindromes"
"One Blood" from "Green Street Hooligans"
"One Little Slip" from "Chicken Little"
"One Safe Place" from "The Upside of Anger"
"Reachin' for Heaven" from "Ice Princess"
"Remains of the Day" from "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"
"Same in Any Language" from "Elizabethtown"
"Shine" from "Robots"
"Shoulder to Shoulder" from "Pooh's Heffalump Movie"
"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"Taking the Inside Rail" from "Racing Stripes"
"Tell Me What You Already Did" from "Robots"
"There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway" from "The Producers"
"These Days" from "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants"
"This Is the Way" from "Palindromes"
"Travelin' Thru" from "Transamerica"
"You're Gonna Die Soon" from "Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic"

The Academy will screen three-minute clips of each song in random order for music branch voting members on January 17 and again on January 23. At these screenings, members will vote to nominate three to five songs for Oscar consideration.

In order to make this list of eligible submissions, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original, and written specifically for the film.

Nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST.

http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleas ... 2.15c.html

What happened to the Brokeback song?

Apparently the song isn't played long enough or audible enough in the movie.

Um..... no BBM.

Homophobes.

I actually heard a little bit of the Brokback song on an NPR thingy, and I don't know, maybe I just didn't hear enough of it...

But I thought it was kind of bad.

I don't think it could be bad enough to simply not make the cut. Fiddy made it, Date with Drew made it, Sarah Silverman made it.

I think it's probably what xiayun or lennier said. Either it wasn't in/eligible enough, or it's just straight up homophobia.

iTunes has the whole CD up for preview & sale.

Anyone have an idea as to which song it was?

I'll listen myself.

"A Love That Will Never Grow Old" scored the GG nomination

It's pretty good, actually.

I heard the entire song on NPR this morning. Not very good.

"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" needs to win.

Here is the Envelope article:

http://oscarbeat.latimes.com/

Hmmm... 42... 42 songs...

Oh my... "So Long and Thanks For All the Fish" is gonna win!!!

damn it. i though song would have been a lock for a nomination. seriously, what gives? at least give it an ear for christ's sake.

I was just saying what I heard I thought was bad, not that I thought because it was bad it didn't make the cut.

But yeah.

This really poos my day. It needed as many nominations as possible. And now some shit from Hitchhiker's gets nominated.

Hmmm... that's one less nomination

Relax brokebackers, read the article.

I read the first half, but not the second. What happens?

i'm sorry. there have been songs that don't play til the closing credits that were nomited indicating that no one heard them yet they got it a nod. ugh,

It will be a crime when this isn't nominated.

They are running "Do the Hippogriff" and not "Magic Works" Warner is fucking stupid. Hippogriff is the worst of the 3 songs!

Ok seriously, Heath is choking.

on the contrary. he is in ultimate pleasure.

Completely agree on HP. MW was awesome... Hippogriff was pretty awful.

Well, if it's actually not played with the credits and just those 30 seconds "from the radio" I can't be too mad about it... at least not at the Academy.

Still, as small of a thing this is, I don't now why exactly, it actually did kinda kill the day for me

Yea, what is up with that?

Okay understandable.

But.. has anyone seen White Nights?

Wasn't the song by Phil Collins "Separate Lives" also played from a radio in one scene? And that was when two characters were having dialogue as well... so there were inaudible parts... pretty sure the audible parts did not last 30 seconds.

Unless the song played over the end credits which I did not see since the movie was fucking horrible. lol