Pharrell Scores Oscar Nomination For 'Happy'
Pharrell has one, enormous reason to be Happy today. The song has been nominated for an Oscar.
The former N*E*R*D singer’s track Happy, for animated film Despicable Me 2,has been nominated for Best Original Song. The film also scored a nod in the Best Animated Film category.
The honour comes just days after Pharrell reclaimed the top spot on Sunday’s charts, knocking Pitbulland Avicii into second and third place. He first scored a number one with Happy back in December, when it was anointed the last number one single of 2013.
Also nominated for Best Song this year are U2 and Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, who were nominated for Ordinary Love (from Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom) and The Moon Song (from Scarlett Johansson flick Her) respectively.
Alone Yet Not Alone, from the film of the same name, and Let It Go, from Frozen, are also in the running.
Noticeably absent from the category, however, are Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift. Both were on the long-list of 75 songs, Lana for her Great Gatsby track Young and Beautiful(maybe that [uuid=cb2df2ec-c0d2-439e-8367-7460b8c24e5f]Oscars sabotage attempt[/uuid] worked after all?) and Taylor for Sweeter Than Fiction, from One Chance.
Of the five songs that were shortlisted, the frontrunners are undoubtedly U2, who won the Golden Globe for Best Song last weekend, and Frozen, which has been dominating the album charts in the US this week, knocking Beyonce off the number one spot.
Check out the full list of 2014 Oscar nominations below:
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio – Wolf Of Wall Street
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years A Slave
Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years A Slave
June Squibb – Nebraska
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years A Slave
Jonah Hill – Wolf Of Wall Street
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
BEST FILM
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Gravity
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years A Slave
Wolf Of Wall Street
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Frozen
Despicable Me 2
The Croods
The Wind Rises
Ernest & Celestine
DIRECTOR
David O Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Dallas Buyers Club
Her
Nebraska
Best Foreign Language Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Missing Picture
Omar
PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle
Gravity
The Great Gatsby
Her
12 Years a Slave
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners
COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle
The Grandmaster
The Great Gatsby
The Invisible Woman
12 Years a Slave
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing
Cutie and the Boxer
Dirty Wars
The Square
20 Feet From Stardom
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
CaveDigger
Facing Fear
Karama Has No Walls
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
EDITING
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave
MAKE UP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
The Lone Ranger
ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief
Gravity
Her
Philomena
Saving Mr. Banks
ORIGINAL SONG
Happy - Despicable Me 2
Let It Go - Frozen
The Moon Song - Her
Ordinary Love - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Alone Yet Not Alone - Alone Yet Not Alone
SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Lone Survivor
SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
The Lone Ranger
Star Trek Into Darkness
ANIMATED SHORT
Feral
Get a Horse!
Mr. Hublot
Possessions
Room on the Broom
LIVE ACTION SHORT
Helium
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?
The Voorman Problem