Jon Burlingame editorEighty-four songs and 137 original scores have been deemed eligible for Academy Awards consideration this year, Variety has learned.The approximately 375 members of Oscar’s music branch began preliminary voting on Friday.
Balloting ends at 5 p.m. Wednesday. Fifteen songs and 15 scores will be chosen to compete for the final five slots in each category.The song list is considerably shorter than that of 2020, when 105 songs qualified.
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