NEW YORK (AP) — The 2025 Oscar nominations are right here, and its music classes mirror a variety of expertise.
The customarily-nominated Diane Warren is represented for a sixteenth time for “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight.” Elton John, recently retired from live performance, is up for original song for “Never Too Late,” from the documentary about his life. “Emilia Pérez” dominates in that category, with two of the five nominations and one for best score. That means three nominations for composer duo Clément Ducol and Camille. Thursday also marked the first Oscar nominations for Abraham Alexander and Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, who composed “Like A Bird” for “Sing Sing.”
“Challengers” is notably lacking from the unique rating class. Along with “Emilia Pérez,” those nominees include Daniel Blumberg for “The Brutalist,” Volker Bertelmann for “Conclave,” John Powell and Stephen Schwartz for “Wicked,” and AP breakthrough artist Kris Bowers for “The Wild Robotic.”
Check out how a few of the Oscar music nominees reacted Thursday.
Diane W
arren, unique tune nod for “The Journey” from “The Six Triple Eight”
“The Journey” is Warren’s sixteenth Oscar nomination. May it make for her first win?
“The fact that I get another shot, you know, is awesome. I love it. It’s like the losing team that’s getting sent back,” she joked to The Related Press. “I don’t know something about sports activities and stuff, however I assume (it’s) like a Tremendous Bowl, like a workforce that, you realize, loses for many years. Individuals root for them.
“I have an honorary Oscar sitting right over there,” she gestures off to the aspect. “He gets very lonely.”
As for that quantity, 16: “I never did have a sweet 16,” she jokes. “I was 16 but probably I wasn’t sweet.” Not solely that, however she’s been nominated throughout 5 a long time. “Since I’m only 39, how did that happen?”
This yr, like in previous years, she held a “sleepless sleepover” with pals in anticipation of the nomination announcement.
“Emilia Pérez” snags three music noms for Clément Ducol and Camille
The three nominations for the movie’s rating and songs “El Mal” and “Mi Camino” are Ducol and Camille’s first.
“You go from anxiety to relief and you’re filled up with energy and you need that,” Camille said of her reaction to the news. “We’ve worked so much, and we’ve worked so much for the campaign … I feel very fulfilled and very happy for all the team.”
“For me, it represents something very important,” she mentioned of the movie’s recognition. “It’s a very free, provocative and empathic, compassionate movie. And I really think this is what we need now.”
“It’s totally incredible. I was like, ‘What?’ It’s three nominations. It’s huge,” mentioned Ducol. “We have been concerned initially of the development of the story in music … So every little thing is linked collectively, is woven collectively between the script, the screenplay, the songs. And so, we really feel prefer it’s our story, our film … It isn’t only a musical or reflecting a narrative or reflecting motion within the film. The music and the songs, on this film, is the script. It’s the story.”
“Never Too Late” returns
Elton John to unique tune Oscar race
John has received two Oscars previous to this nomination. Each have been within the unique tune class: in 1994, he received for “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King” and in 2019 for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Once more” from “Rocketman.” That is his fifth nomination.
“It’s an incredible honour to receive this nomination for ‘Never Too Late,’ alongside my collaborators Brandi Carlile, Bernie Taupin and Andrew Watt,” he wrote in a statement. “Thank you to the Academy for this nomination and to everyone who helped bring this beautiful song to the world.”
Taupin, John’s longtime lyricist, has been nominated and received as soon as earlier than, additionally for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again.” That is his second nomination. “What makes this so special is that it was a collaborative effort that included three individuals who are dear to me, not just as a talented crew, but who have become a close-knit creative family,” he mentioned in an announcement.
That is the primary nomination for each Brandi Carlile and Andrew Watt.
“I’m having a hard time fathoming, let alone explaining to anybody what it feels like to be Oscar nominated alongside my greatest heroes of all time for something so meaningful,” Carlile said in a statement. “I honestly can’t imagine a higher honor.”
“I can’t express how grateful and excited I am to be nominated alongside these superstar songwriters and artists at this year’s Academy Awards,” said Watt. “May the dream never end.”
“Like A Bird”
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“Sing Sing” mints two first-time Oscar nominees
This the primary nomination for each Alexander and Quesada.
Quesada was driving when he came upon he’s an Oscar nominee. “I had just dropped my daughter off at school, and I got the first text. And I looked and saw the name, and I knew it was a friend who works in film. And I’m like, ‘My God.’ I just got chills,” he recounts. “Abe and I, who did the song, would have never imagined, you know, waking up to an Academy Award nomination.”
He says being nominated for a tune in a transferring movie that’s being screened for incarcerated individuals holds extra weight. “There’s — no pun intended — a bigger picture here with this film.”
Alexander was at house in Fort Price, Texas, watching the reside stream when he came upon. “I was on the couch this morning watching it, and I instantly started crying,” he mentioned. “It feels surreal.”
He describes the nomination as “a validation of my artistry, in a way.” However in lots of different methods, “The song is only a reflection of this film, and the film is truly a piece of art that helps.”
So, how will he rejoice? “I’m gonna eat pizza and ice cream!” he laughs.
John Powell, unique rating nomination for “Wicked”
That is Powell’s second Oscar nomination, each within the unique rating class.
Powell, who evacuated his house and studio within the Pacific Palisades following the Los Angeles-area wildfires and can’t but return, thought the Academy delayed the nomination bulletins even additional, to subsequent week. He is at present staying “in my girlfriend’s mom’s backroom in the mean time, on a pullout sofa.
“It is such a bizarre time to be getting enthusiastic about one thing like this … I fairly fortunately slept on this morning and bought a name from my agent, and I used to be like, ‘What the hell is she calling me for? What could be that urgent?’” he instructed The AP. “She woke me up. And the poodles.
“It’s a wonderful thing. It was a shock,” he says of the nomination. “At the moment, you have to understand, it could be to ‘get the hell out.’ I mean, that’s what we’re all thinking.”
Powell says “Depraved” actually completed what he likes to do in his work, “which is bring that joy to the cinema.”
Kris Bowers, unique rating nomination for “The Wild Robot”
Bowers has been nominated twice earlier than, in documentary classes, and received his first Oscar in 2023 for “The Last Repair Shop.” That is the composer’s first nomination for unique rating.
“I feel like ever since I was a kid, this is the category that I would study and the space that I was always hoping to be welcomed into,” he mentioned. “I really feel fairly honored.”
Engaged on the animated “The Wild Robot,” he says, was a chance to attach with a childhood dream. “When I was a kid, I actually wanted to be an animator just as much as I wanted to be a composer,” he says, referencing Disney cartoons and “Tom and Jerry.” “Those cartoons that have no words were conveying a lot of the emotional storytelling with the music.”
His daughter was six months previous when he began the mission and had turned 2 by its finish; he associates the mission with these first years of parenthood.
However he additionally describes this second in time as “bittersweet,” referring to the continued wildfires which have destroyed greater than 14,000 buildings and displaced tens of hundreds. “We have a lot of really close friends that that lost everything,” he provides. Bowers evacuated for per week.
“Conclave” composer Volker Bertelmann celebrates with soup, polka and 50 Cent
Bertelmann has been nominated twice earlier than and received for his rating to “All Quiet on the Western Front” in 2022. In 2016 he was nominated for the primary time for unique rating for “Lion.”
“I was cooking vegetable soup for my family because in Germany, we have quite (the) winter at the moment. It’s very cold,” he mentioned of the second he came upon concerning the nomination.
“We have already celebrated a bit, my wife and my kids … I made the soup and then suddenly, you know, the news came in. We were just jumping around and put some music on. We danced a little bit. I love dancing when I’m celebrating.”
Their music of alternative? “We use a lot of let’s say traditional polkas and, you know, very interesting, weird, weird music that we dance to” — and “50 Cent.”
Daniel Blumberg, unique rating nomination for “The Brutalist”
That is Blumberg’s first Oscar nomination. He was having lunch in London with “ The Brutalist” director, producer and co-writer Brady Corbet when he came upon. “It’s been quite a surreal day,” he mentioned. The pair shared a hug when the information arrived.
“’The Brutalist’ was always such an important project for me,” he says, describing the workforce behind it as devoted to creating “something with urgency, to make something with no compromise.”
“I think we’ll have a drink tonight,” he says of his celebratory plans. “I’d love to go to Kent and have a drink with John Tilbury, who played piano. He’s in his 80s. And we always had vodka at lunch when we were working together … I think that if I could choose a way of celebrating, I’d probably be going to John’s cottage in Kent.”
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