Clément Ducol, Camille, and director Jacques Audiard have gained the 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Song, for “El Mal,” from Emilia Pérez. The songwriters will take dwelling statuettes for the observe, incomes their first-ever Oscars. The opposite nominees had been “Mi Camino,” additionally from Emilia Pérez; “By no means Too Late,” from Elton John: By no means Too Late; “The Journey,” from The Six Triple Eight; and “Like a Fowl,” from Sing Sing.
The Rolling Stones’ lead singer, Mick Jagger, offered the award, and he had a number of jokes up his sleeve about his fellow classic-rock up to date. “The producers actually needed Bob Dylan to do that,” stated Jagger. “Bob didn’t wish to do it as a result of he stated the very best songs this 12 months had been clearly within the film A Full Unknown. Bob stated, ‘It is best to discover any individual youthful.’ I stated, ‘OK! I’m youthful! I’m younger sufficient, Bob! I’ll do it!’ So right here I’m.” (In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Bob Dylan actually was invited to the Oscars.)
Whereas accepting the award, Camille sang a little bit of the Rolling Stones’ hit “Sympathy for the Satan” after which gave a brief speech thanking the Emilia Pérez forged and crew, and explaining the objective of the songs they created. “We hope it speaks to the function music and artwork can play and proceed to play as a drive of the nice and progress on this planet,” she stated.
Among the many shedding nominees are a number of acquainted names, together with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, who wrote “Like a Fowl” for Sing Sing with Abraham Alexander, in addition to EGOT-holder Elton John and his “By no means Too Late” writing companions Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin. Perennial runner-up Diane Warren was the nominee for The Six Triple Eight’s “The Journey.”
Final 12 months, Billie Eilish and Finneas scored Barbie’s sole statuette, in Best Original Song, with “What Was I Made For?”
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