Oscars: Academy Short List for Best Songs Includes Diane Warren, Beyonce, Lin Manuel Miranda, JHud, Van Morrison

Here’s the Academy short list for Best Song. Included are some perennials like Diane Warren for her great song, “Somehow You Do” from a little seen movie starring Glenn Close called “Four Good Days.” It’s a competitive list that includes songs by Beyonce, U2, Jennifer Hudson. Lin Manuel Miranda, and Van Morrison among others.

My choices are in bold face. More to come on this subject…

“So May We Start?” from “Annette”
“Down To Joy” from “Belfast”
“Right Where I Belong” from “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road”
“Automatic Woman” from “Bruised”
“Dream Girl” from “Cinderella”
“Beyond The Shore” from “CODA”
“The Anonymous Ones” from “Dear Evan Hansen”
“Just Look Up” from “Don’t Look Up”
“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto”
“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days”
“Guns Go Bang” from “The Harder They Fall”
“Be Alive” from “King Richard”
“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die”
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from “Respect”
“Your Song Saved My Life” from “Sing 2”