Clément Ducol, Camille, and director Jacques Audiard have received the 2025 Academy Award for Finest Unique Tune, for “El Mal,” from Emilia Pérez. The songwriters will take residence statuettes for the monitor, incomes their first-ever Oscars. The opposite nominees have 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 Chook,” 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 modern. “The producers actually wished Bob Dylan to do that,” mentioned Jagger. “Bob didn’t need to do it as a result of he mentioned the very best songs this 12 months have been clearly within the film A Full Unknown. Bob mentioned, ‘You must discover any individual youthful.’ I mentioned, ‘OK! I’m youthful! I’m younger sufficient, Bob! I’ll do it!’ So right here I’m.” (Based on 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 solid and crew, and explaining the objective of the songs they created. “We hope it speaks to the position music and artwork can play and proceed to play as a pressure of the great and progress on the planet,” she mentioned.
Among the many dropping nominees are a number of acquainted names, together with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, who wrote “Like a Chook” 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 Finest Unique Tune, with “What Was I Made For?”
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