The 2020 Oscars' Best Original Song Nominees, Cruelly Ranked
Let's pick a winner and some losers from among a crop that includes a Disney showstopper, an Elton John banger, Randy Newman's latest Pixar romp and two songs about standing.
Last year, the Oscar for best original song was preordained: It was going to "Shallow," come hell or high water, in spite of the clear and obvious superiority of Kendrick Lamar's "All the Stars." That was an unusually strong year for movie songs — you could have put together a strong slate using only tracks that didn't get nominated — but the category didn't exactly hold the movie world in suspense.
This year, the overall slate isn't as strong, but there's a bit more mystery as to the winner. So read on for a (not terribly bold) prediction, a cold-blooded ranking of the nominated songs' quality,
