At the 2022 Oscars, Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Others Will Perform Best Original Song Nominations
Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Finneas, Reba McEntire, and Sebastián Yatra will perform their Best Original Song nominations at the Academy Awards event on 27th March at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Beyoncé will perform ‘Be Alive,’ from King Richard, which is nominated for five other awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The news comes amid reports earlier this week that the artist was planning a surprise live performance at this year’s awards ceremony.
Eilish and Finneas will sing their No Time to Die theme song, which is also nominated for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects. The Best Original Song nominations for Beyoncé, Eilish, and O’Connell mark their first time being nominated for an Academy Award.
Sebastián Yatra will perform ‘Dos Oruguitas,’ which he performs in Disney’s Encanto and for which Lin-Manuel Miranda is nominated for an Oscar. The film’s composer, Germaine Franco, is nominated for Best Original Score, and the film itself is nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
Meanwhile, Reba McEntire will play ‘Somehow You Do,’ a song composed by Diane Warren for her Four Good Days track. Van Morrison is also nominated for ‘Down to Joy,’ a song he penned and sang for Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, which is up for seven awards, including Best Picture. Morrison was invited to perform the song this weekend but he will not attend “due to his tour schedule”, according to the statement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Travis Barker, Sheila E., and Robert Glasper, along with music director Adam Blackstone, were confirmed earlier this month as part of an all-star ensemble that would perform at this year’s awards ceremony. D-Nice and the Samples, a vocal ensemble, are also scheduled to perform at the event.
Last month, the Oscar nominations were announced, with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog topping the pack with 12 nominations. Dune comes in second with ten nods, followed by Belfast and West Side Story, each with seven.
—Silviya.Y
