Common and John Legend, The Lonely Island and Tegan and Sara Nominated for Oscars

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Common and John Legend, The Lonely Island and Tegan and Sara Nominated for Oscars

The 87th Academy Awards ceremony will air on February 22, with this year’s event hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. This morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees, and Common and John Legend, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and The Lonely Island and Tegan and Sara are all up for awards in 2015. 

The nominees for Best Original Song are Common and John Legend’s “Glory” from Selma, the Lonely Island/Tegan and Sara for “Everything Is Awesome” from The Lego Movie, Rita Ora’s “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights, “Lost Stars” from “Begin Again” (co-written by the New Radicals’ Gregg Alexander and performed by Adam Levine and Keira Knightley), and Glen Campbell’s “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me.

The nominees for Best Original Score include Jóhann Jóhannsson for The Theory of Everything, Alexandre Desplat for both The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel, Hans Zimmer for Interstellar and Gary Yershon for Mr. Turner.
Find the full list of nominees here.

“Glory”:

“Everything is Awesome”:

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