- Title: Best Song Oscar nominees discuss their movie music
- Date: 20th February 2017
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE - DECEMBER 5, 2016) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR, DAMIEN CHAZELLE, SAYING: "I don't know, I always hoped it'd play for an audience because it was a hard movie to get financed and there was always that question of who is the audience for it. But I've always thought that musicals, at their heart, are a populist medium
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- Keywords: Damien Chazzelle La La Land Justin Timberlake Trolls Oscars Best Song Lin-Manuel Miranda Moana Sting J. Ralph interviews
- Location: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- City: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILMING LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Film
- Reuters ID: LVA00264BO8JX
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Five songs are battling it out for the Best Song Oscar this year with two of them coming from the same movie.
It might come as no surprise that, being a musical, "La La Land" has secured nominations for "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" and "City Of Stars". The nods represent just two of the 14 that it has received from the Academy.
The film's director, Damien Chazelle, told Reuters: "I always hoped it'd play for an audience because it was a hard movie to get financed and there was always that question of who is the audience for it. But I've always thought that musicals, at their heart, are a populist medium and that it's about being in this theatre with a big crowd seeing people break into song, I think that's what it's all about."
Also up for the award is Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop The Feeling" from the hugely-successful animated movie, "Trolls."
He told Reuters that writing a song for a film is something he has been dreamed of doing, saying: ''I have always wanted to work on a soundtrack after getting to, you know, explore acting in film you know, and having done a ton of music over the years you know at some point wanting to combine those was always something that I wanted to do. This became like an embarrassment of riches because you're actually in the movie as well you're playing you know one of the supporting role to the lead in the movie and getting to do all the music. It's like - sign me up!''
"Trolls" is not the only animated movie to feature an Oscar-nominated song this year, Disney's "Moana" also has that honor thanks to "How Far I'll Go," a track written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
He told Reuters: "What's extraordinary about "Moana" and her journey is that we all have that one thing, it's not necessarily a call to the sea and it's not necessarily I want to write songs, there's a voice inside all of us and it talks to us whether we like it or not and that's what that song is about, being 16 and the distance between you and your dreams, it seeming impossible but listening to that voice anyway."
The Oscars will handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 26. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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