Adele to Perform Academy Award®-Nominated Song from "Skyfall" at Oscars®
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Multi-platinum selling singer-songwriter Adele will perform the Oscar®-nominated theme song from the latest James Bond movie at the 85th Academy Awards®, the show's producers announced today. "Skyfall," from the film of the same name, was announced as a nominee for Original Song at the Academy’s Nominations Announcement on January 10. The song, written by Adele and Paul Epworth, is the first Bond theme ever to debut in Billboard's Top 10 and the first to be nominated for an Oscar since "For Your Eyes Only" in 1981.
Adele's exclusive Oscar show performance will be the first time she will have performed "Skyfall" anywhere live and will also mark her first U.S. television performance since the Grammys® last year.
"It's an honour to be nominated and terrifyingly wonderful to be singing in front of people who have captured my imagination over and over again,” said Adele. “It's something I've never experienced and probably only ever will once!"
"We have enormous respect for Adele's unique artistry as a songwriter and a singer," said Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the producers of this year's Academy Awards show. "She is currently one of the most successful recording artists in the world, and we believe that her performance of 'Skyfall' will be an exciting Oscar moment for audiences watching at the Dolby Theatre™ and on television screens around the world."
Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
Holla die Waldfee(blimey), didn't know Rush Limbaugh loves ADELE, too.
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RUSH: Folks, how great is this? It's been confirmed that Adele will make her anticipated return to the stage when she shows up at the Epidemic Awards...uh, Academy Awards, to sing the title song to the movie Skyfall. It's so great. First appearance in public since giving birth to a human baby. In addition to Adele showing up and singing live on stage... wow, hey, at least she's not going to lip-sync it like Beyonce. People are really giving her grief over this. Wolf Blitzer just heard yesterday that she lip-synced and he's all over it. I find it fascinating the things that upset people. We can be in all this debt and we can have an economy that's being plundered, that is not growing. We have unemployment skyrocketing. We praise the guy in charge of it. Some singer gets up and lip-syncs the National Anthem and everybody has a cow.
Oh well. In addition to Adele and her first public appearance, you know what else is going to happen? All six actors who have portrayed James Bond are going to be on the same stage for the first time ever. Do you realize what that's going to mean for ratings for the Academy Awards? From Sean Connery on to Daniel Craig. I saw this news today, I thought, "Wow this is a great way to get me going into the weekend." That's exciting stuff.
"Taylor Swift demanded a face-to-face showdown with Harry Styles." She thinks he cheated on her. RadarOnline.com has the exclusive on this. And she says because of that she may never trust him again. That's a shame. Terrible shame. The things that young people have to go through in America today and the trauma and the shock of the things they have to learn -- just incredible.
The Academy Is Reportedly Attempting to Woo All Six James Bonds to Next Month’s Oscars
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A new report, however, speculates that all six of the actors who have played Bond over the years—Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig—will unite for the first time ever at the Oscars as further tribute to the Ian Fleming character. While producers have confirmed both the Adele and anniversary-tribute aspects of the program, there’s been no word on a possible reunion—not exactly a surprise, since, as Entertainment Weekly notes, Academy Awards tributes are usually kept under wraps until the show.
I hope she changes it up a little, or at least the stage design is interesting. If she's dressed in black singing the song exactly like on record I'm going to kill a puppy.
If this is true I think this just tells us 100% that she has won the award. I can't imagine having an event celebrating James Bond without even giving them their first award in the song category. Also if they are bringing previous singers into the show than they are only further hyping it up for the win.
If this is true I think this just tells us 100% that she has won the award. I can't imagine having an event celebrating James Bond without even giving them their first award in the song category. Also if they are bringing previous singers into the show than they are only further hyping it up for the win.
