The official 2025 Oscar nominations are being revealed on January 17, but ahead of those, the Academy has released its shortlists in 10 categories, including the two big music awards — Best Original Song and Best Original Score.
UPDATE (12/20, 3:55 p.m. ET): Robbie Williams's song "Forbidden Road" from Better Man, the biopic wherein he's inexplicably an animated monkey, has now been disqualified as a contender for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
According to Deadline, various reports indicate that the song features material from a pre-existing piece of work, which Academy music branch rules prohibit; the category pertains to music written specifically for a given film. "I Got a Name," a song written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel for the 1973 movie The Last American Hero is the piece of music "Forbidden Road" apparently features similarities to.
The Best Original Song list includes 15 tracks by the likes of Saoirse Ronan (for "Winter Coat," the song she sings in Blitz), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (for "Compress/Repress" from Challengers), Kneecap (for "Sick in the Head"), Pharrell Williams (for "Piece by Piece," from his LEGO biopic) and a whole bunch more. You can check out the full list below.
Also below is the full Best Original Score list, which also features Reznor and Ross, plus John Powell's Wicked score, Danny Elfman's work for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Hans Zimmer's Blitz score, and the music from Sing Sing by the National's Bryce Dessner.
Best Original Song:
"Forbidden Road" (Better Man) — Robbie Williams
"Winter Coat" (Blitz) ― Saoirse Ronan (written by Steve McQueen, Taura Stinson, Nicholas Britell)
"Compress/Repress" (Challengers) — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
"Never Too Late" (Elton John: Never Too Late) — Elton John and Brandi Carlile
"El Mal" (Emilia Pérez) — Camille
"Mi Camino" (Emilia Pérez) — Camille
"Sick in the Head" (Kneecap) — Kneecap
"Beyond" (Moana 2) — Barlow & Bear
"Tell Me It's You" (Mufasa: The Lion King) — Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Piece by Piece" (Piece by Piece) — Pharrell Williams
"Like a Bird" (Sing Sing) — Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
"The Journey" (The Six Triple Eight) — H.E.R. (written by Diane Warren)
"Out of Oklahoma" (Twisters) — Lainey Wilson
"Kiss the Sky" (The Wild Robot) — Maren Morris
"Harper and Will Go West" (Will & Harper) — Kristen Wiig
Best Original Score:
Alien: Romulus — Benjamin Wallfisch
Babygirl — Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Danny Elfman
Blink Twice — Chanda Dancy
Blitz — Hans Zimmer
The Brutalist — Daniel Blumberg
Challengers — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Conclave — Volker Bertelmann
Emilia Pérez — Clément Ducol, Camille
The Fire Inside — Tamar-kali
Gladiator II — Harry Gregson-Williams
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 — John Debney
Inside Out 2 — Andrea Datzman
Nosferatu — Robin Carolan
The Room Next Door — Alberto Iglesias
Sing Sing — Bryce Dessner
The Six Triple Eight — Aaron Zigman
Wicked — John Powell
The Wild Robot — Kris Bowers
Young Woman and the Sea — Amelia Warner