![]() ![]() Does anyone remember that Karen O, from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was nominated four years ago (along with co-writer director Spike Jonez), for a song from “Her”? Not so much, not least of all because the song felt obscure enough that Ms. ![]() The same could be sort of be said for alt-country artist Ryan Bingham, who shared his Oscar win with T Bone Burnett for a “Crazy Heart” song, “The Weary Kind,” two years later.īut otherwise, it’s been a series of probably not-so-near misses when indie artists have their brush with Oscar greatness. Only once, or “Once,” has the Academy awarded Best Song to an artist who might be considered to have come from the indie-rock realm, when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who formerly shared space in the band the Frames, won a decade ago for “Falling Slowly.” Some might consider their genre to be more in the realm of adult alternative or Americana, but at least they were artists signed to an indie label, and true outliers in the Pixar-favoring division. “I’m just thrilled to be nominated and to be there and be witness to it all,” Sufjan Stevens told Variety in a recent interview, expressing gratitude for his Oscar nod for “Mystery of Love,” one of the two original songs he wrote for “ Call Me By Your Name.” In taking a happy-just-to-be-there stance, Stevens may be being magnanimous - or just realistic, given how historically impervious Academy voters have proven to indie-rock over the years, especially in the final voting stretch. ![]()
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