All 49 Songs Competing for Best Song

Australia: “By the Boab Tree”
Bolt: “Barking at the Moon”
Bolt: “I Thought I Lost You”
Cadillac Records: “Once in a Lifetime”
Dark Streets: “It Ain’t Right”
Dark Streets: “Too Much Juice”
Forgetting Sarah Marshall: “Dracula’s Lament”
Fuel: “Drive”
Gran Torino: “Gran Torino”
Hamlet 2: “Rock Me Sexy Jesus”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “A Night to Remember”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Can I Have This Dance”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “High School Musical”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “I Want It All”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Just Getting Started”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Just Wanna Be with You”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Now or Never”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Right Here Right Now”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Scream”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “The Boys Are Back”
High School Musical 3: Senior Year: “Walk Away”
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: “The Traveling Song"
My Blueberry Nights: “The Story”
My Dream: “The Code of Life”
Nights in Rodanthe: “In Rodanthe”
Nothing but the Truth: “Nothing but the Truth”
Pray the Devil Back to Hell: “Djoyigbe”
Pride and Glory: “Waterline”
Quantum of Solace: “Another Way to Die”
Rachel Getting Married: “Up to Our Nex”
Repo! The Genetic Opera: “Chase the Morning”
Repo! The Genetic Opera: “Chromaggia”
Repo! The Genetic Opera: “Zydrate Anatomy”
Role Models: “Broken and Bent”
Save Me: “Code of Silence”
Slumdog Millionaire: “Jai Ho”
Slumdog Millionaire: “O Saya”
Synecdoche, New York: “Little Person”
Tennessee: “Right to Dream”
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: “The Call”
The Lodger: “Di Notte”
The Women: “Count on Me”
The Wrestler: “The Wrestler”
They Killed Sister Dorothy: “Forever”
Trouble the Water: “Trouble the Water”
Wall-E: “Down to Earth"
Wanted: “The Little Things”
Yes Man: “Sweet Ballad”
Yes Man: “Yes Man”

The Song category is mostly a popularity contest that goes like this: pick a bunch of songs from the kids movies, a song from Clint Eastwood's movie (since he composes everything himself), and one or two songs by famous musicians. Thus the likely five nominations might be:

Wall-E: "Down to Earth"
Gran Torino: "Gran Torino"
The Wrestler: "The Wrestler" (by Bruce Springsteen)
Cadillac Records: "Once in a Lifetime" (so they can get Beyonce to perform it)
Bolt: "I Thought I Lost You"

Hamlet 2's "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" actually has a reasonable shot -- after all, "Blame Canada" was nominated for the South Park movie. But the horrible, horrible box office (Focus Features spent a lot of money hyping it, and it came to naught) will probably kill it.

Don't underestimate High School Musical 3 -- I wouldn't be surprised if the title song makes it in. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if two songs from that movie made it in.

I would love, love, love it if "Dracula's Lament" was nominated from Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The question is whether enough Academy members have seen it.

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