best song oscar

[shark cousteau]

the oscar noms come out early next month, so what are your songs to win it? does it have to be a song written specifically for the movie, becoz if thats the case, then my vote goes to 'vindicated' by dashboard confessional.

[bluenote]

breakaway

[KikiMets]

A song has to be written specifically for the movie in which it appears in order to be eligible for nomination.

www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/1999/99.06.16.html

The Board approved the Music Branch's revised definition of Original Song, which specifies that a song must be written specifically for the film in which it appears. "The Music Branch Executive Committee wanted to emphasize the long-standing rule that already-existing songs are not eligible for Academy Award consideration," said Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis. "We're emphasizing that a song can't be taken out of a drawer and plugged into an essentially finished film. To qualify, a song has to be composed for the particular film that it's in, so that it reflects and contributes to that particular picture's mood or theme."
The Branch further emphasized that work must be done specifically for a given motion picture, by adding a sentence to the eligibility section of the rules, stating that "the work must be the result of a creative interaction between the film maker(s) and the composer(s) or songwriter(s) who have been engaged to work directly on the film."

This most likely makes Breakaway ineligible, as I'm pretty sure that it wasn't written specifically for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack but was submitted to the soundtrack's producers after Avril Lavigne decided not to record it for her own album.

[shark cousteau]

yea breakaway woulda been good competition.