Thank you to everyone who submitted ballots for ATRL March Madness over the past week! We ended up with a
great field of cinema classics, reflecting eight decades of Oscar history.
The
overall top entry is "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas, with ten nominating votes. It is joined by "Beauty and the Beast" (
Beauty and the Beast), "Moon River" (
Breakfast at Tiffany's) and "Over the Rainbow" (
The Wizard of Oz) as the
#1 seeds in their respective regions. The oldest competitor is 1936's "The Way You Look Tonight" from
Swing Time, and they continue up through this year's "The Writing's On the Wall" from
Spectre, the second straight Bond theme to triumph.
It's clear, however, that what ATRL really loves are
Disney songs and power ballads, which dominated balloting and make up most of the rest of the top seeds. The '80s and '90s also proved popular, advancing all of their winners to the main draw, while the '70s missed just one. (Poor "The Morning After" from
The Poseidon Adventure.) That left 18 previously victorious tunes without any support at all.
The tracks that missed the cut are:
Give back your Oscar
"The Continental" The Gay Divorcee (1934)
"Lullaby of Broadway" Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
"Sweet Leilani" Waikiki Wedding (1937)
"Thanks For the Memory" The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
"The Last Time I Saw Paris" Lady Be Good (1941)
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" The Harvey Girls (1948)
"Buttons and Bows" The Paleface (1948)
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Here Comes the Groom (1951)
"Three Coins In the Fountain" Three Coins In a Fountain (1954)
"Gigi" Gigi (1958)
"Call Me Irresponsible" Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
"The Shadow of Your Smile" The Sandpiper (1965)
"Talk to the Animals" Doctor Dolittle (1967)
"The Morning After" The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
"If I Didn't Have You" Monsters, Inc. (2001)
"Al otro lado del rνo" The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
"We Belong Together" Toy Story 3 (2010)
"Man or Muppet" The Muppets (2011)
Now, without further ado, a look at the
64 Oscar winners that will compete to be named
the gold standard of Best Original Songs (see a full size image
here):