LOS ANGELES, United States —
Beyonce,
Jay-Z and
Ariana Grande are all in the running for the best original song Oscar, but French
shock-fest "Titane" did not make the shortlist for best foreign film,
as the Academy unveiled its annual shortlists Tuesday ahead of the formal
nominations.
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Pop superstar Beyonce's ballad "Be
Alive" — penned for the tennis biopic "King Richard," about the
father of Serena and Venus Williams (played by Will Smith) — was on a list of
15 tracks, which will be whittled down to a final five before March's Oscars.
She will compete against her husband Jay-Z,
who produced
Netflix Western "The Harder They Fall," and teamed up with
Kid Cudi for the movie's track "Guns Go Bang."
Grande appears in satire "Don't Look
Up," in which her pop star character sings "Just Look Up" to
implore the public to take seriously the impending threat of a comet plummeting
towards Earth.
Billie Eilish's 007 theme song "
No Time To Die" also made the list.
So did "Dos Oruguitas" from
Disney's animated film "
Encanto," a song composed by
"Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who only needs an Oscar to
complete the coveted EGOT collection of awards — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.
Fifteen contenders were unveiled for the
international feature film Academy Award, from among 92 eligible movies. Each
country is only permitted to submit one film.
France boasts the most foreign film
nominations of any country in Oscars history, but will watch from the sidelines
this year after its selection, Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winning body-horror
"Titane," failed to make the cut.
The ultra-violent movie about a female
serial killer who tricks a firefighter into believing she is his long-lost son,
may have proven too controversial for Academy voters.
The shortlist includes frontrunners such as
Paolo Sorrentino's coming-of-age drama "
The Hand of God" (Italy) and
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's "
Drive My Car" (Japan), based on a Haruki Murakami
short story.
Iran's Asghar Farhadi — among a select
group of auteurs to have won multiple foreign film Oscars previously with
"A Separation" and "The Salesman" — again makes the cut
with morality drama "A Hero."
The tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is a
step closer to its first Oscar nomination with "Lunana: A Yak in the
Classroom," a comic drama about a reluctant young teacher who is sent to
work in the world's most isolated school.
"The Rescue," about the
headline-grabbing 2018 race to save a Thai soccer team trapped in a cave, and
Questlove's "Summer of Soul," about the huge but largely forgotten
"Black Woodstock" festival that took place in 1969 Harlem, also made
the cut.
The final list of
Oscar nominations will be
revealed on February 8, and the awards will be handed out on March 27.
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