Dear Diane Warren: Here’s How to Win a Best Original Song Oscar in 2021

By Mike Fleming Jr

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Continuing on with a recurring weekly series I’m doing…we’re talking the top 25 Oscar winners in just about every single one of the Academy Award categories. Aside from the shorts and something like Best Sound Mixing like I mentioned previously, I’ll be hitting them all over the coming weeks and months, including of course the big eight categories.

Recipients of the 29th Polar Music Prize were announced today and include 11-time Oscar nominated songwriter Diane Warren and Russian-born opera singer Anna Netrebko. The 2020 gala ceremony is scheduled for June 9 at Stockholm’s Grand Hôtel. Each Laureate receives prize money of one million Swedish Kroner (just over $100,000).

Songwriter extraordinaire Diane Warren and operatic prima donna Anna Netrebko have been named the Laureates for the 2020 Polar Music Prize, to be presented in a ceremony at the Grand Hotel on June 9. The announcement was made Tuesday morning (Feb.

Oscar-nominated songwriter Diane Warren and soprano Anna Netrebko have been announced as laureates of the prestigious Polar Music Prize – often described as the “Nobel Prize of music”.

The rousing, life-affirming "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" from Rocketman (Paramount) won the Oscar for best original song at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 9).

Diane Warren has joked about her “consistency” after losing out on the best original song gong at the Oscars on Sunday night, following her 11th Academy Award nomination.

An emotional Elton John planted a kiss on Bernie Taupin as the long-time songwriting partners won an Oscar.

An emotional Sir Elton John planted a kiss on Bernie Taupin as the long-time songwriting partners won an Oscar.

By Greg Evans

Joker's Hildur Gudnadóttir won the Oscar for best original score at Sunday night's Academy Awards. The Icelandic musician and composer is the first woman to win for a dramatic composition.Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley previously won for best original musical or comedy score.

Nearly 25 years after he first won the best original song Oscar for The Lion King's "Can You Feel The Love Tonight?" Elton John is victorious in the category again — this time at the 2020 Oscarson Sunday for "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," a tune from his very own biopic, Rocketman.John wrote the song with his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin, and performed it withRocketman's lead actor Taron Egerton."Wow, this doesn't suck!" said Taupin upon taking the stage.

Behind the keys of a bright red piano, clad in a bright purple tuxedo with sequined lapels - with a rocket symbol pinned to the left lapel - legendary pop singer Elton John performed his nominated song "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again" on the Oscar stage.Just minutes later, he would take to the stage again to collect the Oscar when it won for best original song.John took to the stage after director Bong Joon Ho's acceptance of his award for best international film.

Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin scored the big win for Best Original Song at the 2020 Oscars Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood

At the 2020 Oscars tonight, Elton John won Best Original Song for the second time in his career. “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” from Rocketman won the award over songs from Toy Story 4 (by Randy Newman), Frozen II (“Into the Unknown”), Breakthrough (by Diane Warren), and Harriet (by Cynthia Erivo). “Wow, this doesn’t suck,” Taupin said as he and John stepped onstage to accept their Oscar.

Hildur Guðnadóttir has won the 2020 Oscar for Best Original Score. The Icelandic composer took home the trophy for her work Joker, which previously netted her the Golden Globe for Best Original Score. She won the Academy Award over John Williams (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), Alexandre Desplat (Little Women), Randy Newman (Marriage Story), and Thomas Newman (1917).

This is Chrissy! Chrissy Metz gave a stirring rendition of the song “I’m Standing With You” —which brought songwriter Diane Warren to tears — at the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 9.

Bong Joon Ho and Jin Won Han have won the best original screenplay Oscar for “Parasite” — becoming not only the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, but a relatively rare win for a foreign language screenplay.