2024 Oscars Best Original Song Snubs: Olivia Rodrigo, The Color Purple Missed

The 2024 Oscars nominations have been announced and the internet has mixed reactions towards it.

Many have pointed out that the Oscars for Best Original Song nominees could have been better.

2024 Oscars Nominees: 'Barbie' Snub

Earlier this week, the 2024 Oscars nominees were announced and it's safe to say that it broke the internet of some sort.

This is mainly because, the highest-grossing film of 2023, "Barbie," directed by Greta Gerwig and starred by Margot Robbie, was snubbed on the Best Director and Best Actress nominations.

Many pointed out that Robbie being robbed of a nomination for "Barbie" while Ryan Gosling, who played Ken, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor was hard to grasp and understand.

Gerwig, who was deemed to be responsible for making people return to the theatres last year also missed a Best Director nomination. She, however, is nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Another growing sentiment on social media was that Ryan Gosling's "I'm Just Ken" was nominated for Best Original Song.

Oscars Best Original Song Nomination: 'I'm Just Ken'

Many were shocked that Ryan Gosling's song "I'm Just Ken" on "Barbie" would get nominated for Best Original Song.

Although the award wouldn't actually go to Gosling but to Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, it was frustrating to learn that Gosling's Ken got two awards over Robbie's Barbie.

Meanwhile, Billie Eilish and FINNEAS' "What Was I Made For?" the clear frontrunner for the category," is also nominated.

However, many said that Dua Lipa's "Dance The Night," which was shortlisted in the category, should've made it instead of "I'm Just Ken."

Oscars Best Original Song Nomination Snubs

Fans pointed out that there are more deserving nominees in the shortlist of Best Original Song nominees that Billboard obtained last 2023.

Among them was Olivia Rodrigo's "Can't Catch Me Now" for "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes."

"The Color Purple," a movie musical, failed to make its two shortlisted submissions in the category. They submitted "Keep It Movin'" by Halle Bailey, Denisia Andrews, Brittany Coney, Morten Ristorp, and "Superpower (I)" by The Dream.

Fantasia Barrino, who is also pressed to finally earn an Oscar nomination this year for reprising her role in "The Color Purple," failed to make it too like Robbie.

"Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)" by The Osage Tribe from "Killers of the Flower Moon," "It Never Went Away" by Jon Batiste from "American Symphony," and "The Fire Inside" by Diane Warren from "Flamin' Hot" completed the Best Original Song category this year.

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Oscars, Academy awards, Olivia Rodrigo, The Color Purple, Barbie, Hunger games, Halle Bailey, Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Mark Ronson, Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Dua Lipa