Jon Burlingame The shortlists for the Academy Awards’ two music categories are out, and while there are few surprises among the 375-member music branch’s 15 choices for best original score, there’s a remarkable shift in the original song category: Nearly half of the 15 songs on that list emerged from narrative films or documentaries whose casts or subjects were predominantly Black.Most of these songs had already been tagged as leading contenders, even though it was hardly a certainty they’d all make the shortlist.
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