List of eligible songs:

“The World I Knew” from “African Cats”
“Lay Your Head Down” from “Albert Nobbs”
“Star Spangled Man” from “Captain America: The First Avenger”
“Collision of Worlds” from “Cars 2″
“Dakkanaga Dugu Dugu” from “DAM999″
“DAM999 Theme Song” from “DAM999″
“Mujhe Chod Ke” from “DAM999″
“Rainbird” from “Dirty Girl”
“Keep On Walking” from “The First Grader”
“Where the River Goes” from “Footloose”
“Hello Hello” from “Gnomeo & Juliet”
“Love Builds a Garden” from “Gnomeo & Juliet”
“Bridge of Light” from “Happy Feet Two”
“The Mighty Sven” from “Happy Feet Two”
“Never Be Daunted” from “happythankyoumoreplease”
“Hell and Back” from “Hell and Back Again”
“The Living Proof” from “The Help”
“Coeur Volant” from “Hugo”
“It’s How We Play” from “I Don’t Know How She Does It”
“When the Heart Dies” from “In the Land of Blood and Honey”
“Ja Nao Estar” from “José and Pilar”
“The Keeper” from “Machine Gun Preacher”
“Life’s a Happy Song” from “The Muppets”
“Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets”
“Pictures in My Head” from “The Muppets”
“Summer Song” from “The Music Never Stopped”
“Imaginary Friends” from “Olive”
“Sparkling Day” from “One Day”
“Taking You with Me” from “Our Idiot Brother”
“The Greatest Song I Ever Heard” from “POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold”
“Hot Wings” from “Rio”
“Let Me Take You to Rio” from “Rio”
“Real in Rio” from “Rio”
“Shelter” from “Take Shelter”
“Gathering Stories” from “We Bought a Zoo”
“Pop” from “White Irish Drinkers”
“Think You Can Wait” from “Win Win”
“The Backson Song” from “Winnie the Pooh”
“So Long” from “Winnie the Pooh”

I'm betting there'll be at least one from The Muppets, the one from The Help, maybe the Hugo one, one from Winnie the Pooh.

Albert Nobbs
Captain America
The Help
The Muppets x2

If there are 5 nominees, that is.

Leftover from the days of musicals.

I agree, this category has passed it's prime. - - back in the day, movie songs were also pop hits that you heard in high rotation on the radio - - I can still sing many, many past Oscar nominated songs just by seeing their title (and they weren't just from Musicals - - they worked songs into almost every movie, often through a featured montage or some such device).

This year, Hello Hello from Gnomeo and Juliet is the only one I can still remember the tune to.

This Chris Cornell song from Machine Gun Preacher is very nice. Hope it's nominated, but I doubt it will be. Same goes for the song by the National from Win Win.

They should change it to like "Best Soundtrack." Now that would be awesome. Drive for the win .

Then we'd be getting into MTV Movie Awards territory.