***This is a Spoiler Free Episode***

“Remember Me” from Coco

Performed by Miguel & Natalia Lafaourcade - 2:40

“Mighty River” from Mudbound

Performed by Mary J. Blige - 8:40

“Mystery of Love” from Call Me By Your Name

Performed by Sufjan Stevens - 13:10

“Stand Up For Something” from Marshall

Performed by Andra Day and Common - 18:50

“This is Me” from The Greatest Showman

Performed by Keala Settle - 24:36

Re-Rank / Perfecting Perfection - 31:43

For our 10th retrospective halfisode on the Best Original Song category, we wanted to do something relevant, something special, and diving back into last year’s Oscars became both those things & then some. All of these movies are now available on VOD, all of these songs deserved to be re-visited & listened to once more, and one of our mind’s have been changed since we reviewed the category last winter to create some re-rank drama.

So we enjoyed this recap. Coco’s “Remember Me” involves much more than just some lyrics in a song. Mary J. Blige and her performance at the Oscars makes us wonder why an entire genre of music rarely wins this statuette. “Mystery of Love” by Sufjan Stevens is a perfect marriage between song and film while Common actually adds to what he sang in the Marshall credits to his award season performances. Then we have the snubbed “This is Me,” and as we do throughout this episode, we discuss how our perceptions of this song & performance have changed since Oscar Night. It’s a fast, fun, and surprisingly substantive look back.

Go back & listen to our massive catalog of episodes. There are now 10 Best Original Song Oscar retrospectives. We’ve also reviewed many other categories of the Academy’s past from 1997’s Best Picture - the Year of Titanic all the way through 1989’s Best Original Screenplay where Spike Lee’s script for Do The Right Thing lost to Dead Poets Society, and even as far back as the 1974 Best Actor race where former TV star Art Carney somehow beat out Pacino, Hoffman, and Nicholson.

We’ve also put out full series on the Marvel Cinematic Universe & Mission Impossibles to have fun during the spring & summer Oscar off-season. But of course, we’ve kept you up to date on next year’s awards by previewing the contenders from their film festival premieres in HHT (Hollywood Hot Take) News episodes to way too early Oscar Predictions & Mid-Year Oscar Race Reports to bi-monthly previews of everything hitting theaters to our continuing series of Oscar Contender Trailer reviews.

Finally, don’t miss our reviews of the movies themselves. We’ve already reviewed Black Panther, A Quiet Place, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Hereditary, The Incredibles 2, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Sorry To Bother You, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout. All those movies should have legitimate arguments for Oscar nominations come next year, and we’re covering them as they’re released to you.

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