The 2019 Oscars' Best Original Song Nominees, Cruelly Ranked

When you're filling out your Oscar pool, there are always a few boxes everyone checks. Maybe it's a performance that's swept every other awards show, or maybe it's a movie that seems to have every possible metric on its side. But when you check that box, you know you're virtually guaranteed to get at least one right.

A few of those picks dot the ballot this year. Strongly in the running for Best Picture, would seem to have Best Foreign Language Film seems like an awfully good bet to win Best Animated Feature. But no category seems more firmly decided than Best Original Song. "Shallow," the piece of music at the core of , has every possible form of momentum: It won a Golden Globe and a pair of Grammy Awards, it's performed by huge stars (that'd be Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper), it provides the biggest moment of a heavily decorated film and it's a radio hit. It's almost certainly going to win.