Artistes behind Oscar songs won’t perform during award telecast

MUMBAI: For the first time in Oscar history, artistes behind the year‘s five nominated songs will not perform during the Oscar telecast.

Instead, the nominated songs will be showcased with clips from the films that featured them.

Nominees for an Oscar in the original song category are Randy Newman‘s Almost There and Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog, + from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas, Maury Yeston‘s Take It All from Nine and The Weary Kind from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.