Ten Country Songs That Have Been Nominated for Oscars

Hollywood, CA/ USA - July 26, 2018: Oscar golden award in a souvenir store on Hollywood Boulevard. Success and victory concept

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No true country songs are up for Best Original Song at the Oscars this Sunday. The only one that's even close is "Applause" by Diane Warren from "Tell It Like a Woman". She's been nominated 14 times and never won.

One of those 14 nods was for Trisha Yearwood's "How Do I Live" from the movie "Con Air" in 1998. So country artists don't ALWAYS get snubbed. Here are a few more songs that have been nominated over the years:

1. "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. It lost to the song "Fame" in 1981.

2. "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson. It was nominated for the movie "Honeysuckle Rose" that same year.

3. "Travelin' Thru", another Dolly song. It was up for an Oscar for the movie "Transamerica" in 2005.

4. "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett. It was in the Jeff Bridges movie "Crazy Heart" and WON the Oscar in 2010. (Yes, the same Ryan Bingham who plays Walker on "Yellowstone".)

5. "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" by Glen Campbell. Nominated in 2015. The song "True Grit" . . . which he sang . . . was also up for an Oscar back in 1970.

6. "Coming Home", performed by Gwyneth Paltrow in the 2010 movie "Country Strong".

7. The Faith Hill song "There You'll Be". It's another one by Diane Warren. It was nominated for "Pearl Harbor" in 2002.

8. "When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" from "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs". It lost to "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born" in 2019.

9. "I'm Easy" by Keith Carradine. It's more of a folk song, but it WON in 1976 for the movie "Nashville".

10. The Reba McEntire song "Somehow You Do", which was ALSO written by Diane Warren. It was up for an Oscar last year but lost to Billie Eilish's theme from the James Bond movie, "No Time to Die".


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