{"id":74405,"date":"2021-12-22T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74405"},"modified":"2021-12-22T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:29:02","slug":"beyonce-jay-z-and-grande-in-oscars-race-as-shortlists-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=74405","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce, Jay-Z and Grande in Oscars race as shortlists unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Billie Eilish's 007 theme song “No Time To Die” also made the list.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The ultra-violent movie about a female serial killer who has sex with automobiles, before tricking a firefighter into believing she is his long-lost son, may have proven too controversial for Academy voters.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Denmark, which won the foreign film Oscar last year for “Another Round,” again has a strong contender in the form of “Flee,” which chronicles a gay Afghan refugee's perilous journey to Europe.<\/p>\n

The animated film was also included in the shortlist for best documentary, which was also unveiled Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

The final list of Oscar nominations will be revealed on February 8, and the awards will be handed out on March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. Pop superstar Beyonce’s ballad “Be Alive” — penned for the tennis biopic “King […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n