Adele's best original song award for Skyfall was the first ever for a Bond film.

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British singer Adele won the Oscar for best original song for her Bond theme Skyfall, which she also performed during the show.

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Adele's Skyfall could win best original song and Brits are well represented in the best animated feature category with Paranorman, The Pirates!

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Twitter loved Adele: her performance of "Skyfall" was the second most popular moment on the social network, and her win for Best Original song was fourth.

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Other winners at the awards included Lau, who were named best group and All You Pretty Girls, by Andy Partridge, which was named best original song.

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It is sure to get a few other nominations, including possibly for Cinematography, Editing, and Sound Editing, not to mention a probable nod for Best Original Song.

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The 70-year-old last sang at the Oscars in 1977 when she performed Evergreen from A Star is Born, recipient of that year's award for best original song.

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Though "Falling Slowly" won a Best Original Song Oscar in 2008, it is, like the other numbers in "Once, " forgettably innocuous, the sort of thing you might expect to hear sung by the opening act in a downtown club.

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