The 2026 Oscar nominees for Best Original Song include the chart-topping "Golden" and the mandatory Diane Warren entry, but ...

We caught up with the songwriters of all five of this year's nominees for tales of music deeply rooted in character and story.

This year's Best Original Song nominees at the Oscars are a blues number, a K-Pop ditty, a Nick Cave ballad, an inspirational Diane Warren track ... and an aria? Well, yeah. Nicholas Pike's "Sweet ...

While last year’s Oscar original song short list was dominated by pop stars such as Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo, this year’s lineup is filled with several ditties from musically themed ...

Mor and Chris Tungseth sang about devastating losses during their auditions.

Andrew Bird details how he created “Need Someone,” the first original song for The Pitt, and how it was designed to honor Louie’s death while preserving the show’s realism-driven storytelling approach ...

Bittersweet news for the yet-to-be-announced Best Original Song nominees at this year's Oscars: The 2025 ceremony will do away with live performances from each contender. In a letter sent to the ...

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. You may have heard about some changes to the 2025 Oscars program or you're watching the show ...

This madness must end. For too long have we watched, eyes rolling practically out of our skulls, as year after year Diane Warren sits in the Dolby Theater watching another Oscar pass her by. At one ...