Will ‘Toy Story’ Join These Other Film Franchises That Won Multiple Best Original Song Oscars?
Fun Fact: Taylor Swift & Jack Antonoff were 5 and 11, respectively, when the first Toy Story film was released in 1995.
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As Toy Story 5 goes into general release on Friday (June 19), awards-minded pop fans will start gauging the chances that Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You,” the song that plays over the Disney Pixar film’s closing credits, will receive an Oscar nomination next January. Let’s just say its chances are very good.
Randy Newman was nominated for best original song for tunes he wrote for each of the first four installments in this franchise – “You’ve Got a Friend In Me” from Toy Story, “When She Loved Me” from Toy Story 2, “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 and “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” from Toy Story 4.
Swift and Jack Antonoff, who were 5 and 11, respectively, when the first Toy Story film was released in 1995, co-wrote the new song.
Let’s peer a bit further into the future: If “I Knew It, I Knew You” wins the Oscar on March 14, it will become the second song from a Toy Story film to walk off with that honor. “We Belong Together” from Toy Story 3 won in 2011. Toy Story would join three other film franchises or series of related films in spawning multiple best original song Oscar winners.
We’ll break it all down for you, but first we’ll remind you of the Oscar schedule for this year. Oscar shortlists in 10 categories will be revealed on Tuesday, Dec. 15. The shortlist for best original song, determined by members of the music branch, will show the 15 songs that will go forward. From that list, members of the music branch will vote again to determine the five nominees. Those nominations will be announced on Jan. 21. All voting members of the Academy will vote to determine the final winners, which will be announced at the 99th Oscars on March 14.
Here, as promised, are the film franchises or series of related films that have spawned multiple best original song Oscar winners. (The year shown throughout is the year of the Oscar ceremony.)
