The 94th Academy Awards were fulfilling to see representation and inclusivity across the winners board. From the winners like Coda sweeping major awards, Encanto winning the award for ‘Best Animated Feature Film’. The Academy also nominated music artists. ‘Dune’ took over the music department winning the majority of technical awards and Van Morrison winning the ‘Best Original Song’ Award for ‘Down To Joy’ in ‘Belfast’. The Oscars 2023 have some glorious names nominated.
For the 96th Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences released nominations in 10 categories. It includes categories like Documentary Feature Film, International Feature Film, Makeup And Hairstyle, and the Music categories. The nominations include Giveon for his ballad ‘Time’ from Margot Robbie-starrer ‘Amsterdam’, ‘Life Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther:Wakanda Forever’ by Rihanna, and others. The list is filled with many deserving nominations, but some snubs. Let’s look at the list of music artists nominated.
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Artists Like Rihanna, Taylor Swift, And Selena Gomez Made It To The List
The year has been great for the music industry. The complete lift of lockdowns allowed the artists to go on tours promoting their music. This boosted the record and streaming sales of the artists’ music. In 2022, we got a new Taylor Swift album ‘Midnights’ after a slew of the recordings; Lady Gaga erected theatrical shows during her ‘Chromatica Ball’ tour, and Kendrick Lamar released his bare-all Hip Hop album ‘Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers’.
But, they extended their prowess by contributing to cinema. Lady Gaga gave us a hopeful ballad with her vocally charged theme song ‘Hold My Hand’ for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’. Rihanna made her comeback after six years of hiatus with ‘Black Panther: WakandaForever’. Like them, many artists American and international have made it to the Oscars 2023 nominations.
An Indian composer M.M. Keeravaani is nominated for the entertaining dance number ‘Naatu Naatu’ in the S.S. Rajamouli’s magnum opus ‘RRR’. Other artists include Taylor Swift, who made rounds at the film festivals with her short film ‘All Too Well’. She is nominated for the folk ballad ‘Carolina’ in Daisy Edgar-Jones starrer ‘Where The Crawdads Sing’.
Her longtime companion, Selena Gomez got nominated for the title track of her documentary ‘My Mind & Me’. Jazmine Sullivan bagged a nomination for the song ‘Stand Up’ from ‘Till’.
The Awards Snubbed Certain Artists In Some Categories
It has become ceremonial for the Oscars to snub artists from certain categories which they deserved. The Weeknd was a surprising nomination who had a song in the sequel of Cameron’s 2009’s blockbuster ‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’. He gave vocals to ‘Nothing Is Lost(You Give Me Strength)’. It is too early for the listeners to register it on the charts.
Artists like Kendrick Lamar,Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez did not receive nominations in the ‘Best Live Action Short Film’ category and ‘Best Documentary Feature’, respectively. K-Dot had ‘We Cry Now’ starring Taylour Paige visuals released for a limited number of audiences in June 2022.
The Oscars 2023 snubbed the masterpiece. They snubbed Swift’s ‘All Too Well’. Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas were also not nominated this year for ‘Nobody Like U’ from ‘Turning Red’.
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