By Wonderwall.com Editors
6:00pm PDT, Mar 10, 2024
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No strangers to cinema's biggest night, Billie Eilish and Finneas, seen here at the 2022 Academy Awards, previously scored Oscar gold for their title track from "No Time to Die."
The pair also took home a Grammy in 2024 for their "Barbie" contribution — beating Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson's "I'm Just Ken" — when "What Was I Made For" won best song written for visual media.
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Jon Batiste's moving documentary, "American Symphony," follows the New Orleans native as he begins work on a new symphony — before he and his partner, author Suleika Jaouad, learn her cancer has returned.
Jon will perform his best original song contender, "It Never Went Away" from "American Symphony" (performed by Jon Batiste, music and lyric by Jon Batiste and Dan Wilson), at the Oscars.
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Jon Batiste already has one Academy Award for music. He won best original score for 2020's "Soul" with collaborators Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
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Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," based on the true and tragic story of the Osage murders in Oklahoma in the 1920s, is up for 10 Academy Awards, including best original song.
Osage Nation member Scott George, seen here with "Killers of the Flower Moon" star Lily Gladstone, is slated to perform "Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from "Killers of the Flower Moon" (performed by Scott George and the Osage Singers, music and lyric by Scott George) on the Oscars stage.
Speaking to Variety earlier this year, Scott said "Wahzhazhe," which appears in a ceremonial scene at the end of the film, translates to "Stand up, be tall and be proud. We're still here after all of that."
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At 26, singer Becky G, right, is the youngest of this year's Oscar performers. She's up for a best original song award courtesy of her contribution to Eva Longoria's tale of one man's Frito-Lay fame.
Becky performs her first-ever Oscar contender, "The Fire Inside" from "Flamin' Hot" (performed by Becky G, music and lyric by Diane Warren).
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Diane Warren's Oscar nod for "The Fire Inside" marks her 15th best original song nomination.
Though she has yet to win in the category, she did (finally) get an Oscar statuette in 2022 when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed her with an Honorary Academy Award "for her genius, generosity and passionate commitment to the power of song in film."
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Finally, Jimmy Kimmel returns to host the 2024 Academy Awards in Hollywood on March 10, revisiting a role he played in 2017, 2018 and 2023.
Last year, the comic ended his opening monologue with a segue into a rendition of "Naatu Naatu" from best original song nominees Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, who performed the rousing track with a crew of Los Angeles-based dancers.
"This year we are not gonna play you off stage," Jimmy joked at the time. "Instead, we have a group of performers from the movie 'RRR' who are going to dance you offstage."
Later that night, "Naatu Naatu" won the Oscar for best original song, beating stars like Lady Gaga and marking the first win in that category for a song from an Indian film.
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Dancers and Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava perform "Naatu Naatu" from "RRR" on stage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on March 12, 2023.
