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Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ and Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’ have received Oscar nominations in the Best Original Song category. Image via Twitter @BumpDrunk

Rihanna to Lady Gaga: Oscars Best Original Song playlist [watch]

The sound of music: Some serious star power – from Rihanna to Lady Gaga – feature under the 2023 Oscar nominees for Best Original Song.

Oscars best original song lady gaga rihanna

Rihanna’s ‘Lift Me Up’ and Lady Gaga’s ‘Hold My Hand’ have received Oscar nominations in the Best Original Song category. Image via Twitter @BumpDrunk

 Hollywood formally kicked off the race to the all-important Academy Awards with the announcement of the 2023 Oscar nominees on Tuesday afternoon 24 February. The surreal sci-fi film Everything Everywhere All At Once topped the list with 11 nominations.

The film, which also features Jamie Lee Curtis, earned four acting nominations for its cast, including best supporting actor for Ke Huy Quan — who appeared as a child in Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom almost four decades ago — and best lead actress for Michelle Yeoh.

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2023 Oscars: Best Original Song nominees…and snubs

The 95th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday 12 March with returning host Jimmy Kimmel and one of the most-anticipated categories for music fans has always been that of Best Original Song.

A-list music superstars Lady Gaga and Rihanna feature among the five Best Original Song nominees, with Rihanna reportedly already confirmed to perform at the awards ceremony .

While she is a seven-time Grammy winner, Rihanna got her first Oscar nomination for her Black Panther: Wakanda Forever song Lift Me Up.

Lady Gaga, who is no stranger to the Oscars, received a nod for her Top Gun: Maverick “anthem”, Hold My Hand. We will have to wait and see whether the power ballad will follow in the steps of Shallow with Bradley Cooper from the 2018 movie A Star Is Born and become Gaga’s next Academy Award win.

In this file photo, Best Original Song winner for ‘Shallow’ from ‘A Star is Born’, Lady Gaga, attends the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 91st Academy Awards at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills on 24 February 2019. Image: AFP/ Jean-Baptiste Lacroix
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Surprise Taylor Swift snub

The absence of Grammy-winning artist Taylor Swift however came as a surprise to many.

According to Forbes, the American singer-songwriter was touted by many to feature among the five nominees for her song Carolina from the soundtrack of the murder mystery film Where The Crawdads Sing.

Indie pop rock singer-songwriter Mitski rocked the boat with This is a Life from the multiverse epic Everything Everywhere All at Once. The first-time nominee crafted the song alongside two-time nominee this year Ryan Lott (who is a member of the group Son Lux, which is up for Best Original Score for the same film) and previous winner and music veteran David Byrne, according to EW.

Mitski (Ebru Yildiz) and music stalwart David Byrne have earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for ‘This is a Life’. Images: Supplied/ Ebru Yildiz/ Jody Rogac

Other Best Original Song nominees this year include a diverse array of artists, from (2023 Honorary Award recipient) Diane Warren‘s Applause in Tell It Like a Woman to MM Keeravani and Chandrabose’s front-running contender Naatu Naatu from the Tollywood smash RRR. The song took home the prize in the same category at the Golden Globes earlier this month.

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Look and listen: Five-track Best Original Song nominees playlist

‘Applause’ from ‘Tell It like a Woman’: Diane Warren

‘Hold My Hand’ from ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: Lady Gaga and Bloodpop

‘Lift Me Up’ from ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’: Rihanna, Tems, Ludwig Göransson and Ryan Coogler

‘Naatu Naatu’ from ‘RRR’: Kala Bhairava, MM Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj

‘This Is A Life’ from ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: Mitski, David Byrne and Son Lux