Adele's best original song award for Skyfall was the first ever for a Bond film.
She recommended writing a completely new original song because the video was so over the top and amazing.
British singer Adele won the Oscar for best original song for her Bond theme Skyfall, which she also performed during the show.
In the original song, Ground Control loses radio contact with the astronaut, Major Tom, implying that the mission has failed.
Besides her original song, she and songwriter Todd Almond, who is her arranger, plan to fuse theater standards with pop songs.
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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Both are up for this year's original song prize, alongside tracks from Les Miserables, Life of Pi and the documentary Chasing Ice.
The original song was performed in the 1939 Judy Garland film by characters celebrating the demise of the much-hated Wicked Witch of the East.
For the 2009 Oscars, the number of nominations in the original song category was limited to two per film to make it more competitive.
So similar, in fact, that the "Glee" version included Coulton's line "Johnny C's in trouble, " replacing the lyric "Mix-A-Lot's in trouble" in the original song.
Glick's team filmed and distributed a video which depicted the Mavi Marmara passengers singing an original song, "We Con The World, " in a recording studio.
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.
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.
The video was directed by Alex Bogusky, the man behind the anti-tobacco "Truth" campaign, and features an original song, "Sugar, " by Grammy award-winning artist Jason Mraz.
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.
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.
The Oscars have changed the rules for the original song category to ensure more songs are nominated after just two tracks were up for this year's award.
The single will be titled Band Aid 20 to mark the 20th anniversary of the original song, which featured stars such as George Michael, Duran Duran and Phil Collins.
On his first album, his first original song is Song to Woody, which is built on the melody of a Woody Guthrie song, so the nod there is apparent.
The song will be titled Band Aid 20 to mark the 20th anniversary of the original song, which featured stars such as George Michael, Duran Duran and Phil Collins.
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The start-and-stop process of rehearsal has led to plenty of inside jokes, a special handshake and even an appropriately off-kilter original song that they are happy to sing for a visitor in Broadway perfect tone, of course.
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.
An original song called "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour), " which was performed by Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna during the Haiti concert is now the most downloaded song on iTunes and a CD version of the concert is the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history.
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In addition to the inspirational film, the Blu-ray and DVD feature four additional stories of real students and teachers, commentary by Davis Guggenheim and Lesley Chilcott, a conversation with Davis Guggenheim, the making of John Legend's original song "Shine", which was composed specifically for the film, a look at what's changed in education since the movie was filmed and more.
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The never-ending theme: A classic original has its swan song.
Participants reported that most strategies, such as trying to think of another song, actually made the original earworm worse.
And they close with an original, "Mephisto, " a song Benevento wrote while a member of The Jazz Farmers, his first band in New York.
In its original context - the musical Carousel - the song is used to comfort Julie after her violent robber husband Billy stabs himself rather than be caught by the police.
There has even been a backlash of videos attempting to resurrect the original 1980s Harlem Shake dance, from which the song gets its name.
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