Judas And The Black Messiah

The 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the cinematic achievements of 2020 and the first two months of 2021, will be happening in about two weeks or so, and as I’ve done occasionally over the course of the past few years, I wanted to take a look at this season’s nominees for Best Original Song. I’ll offer my thoughts on each song, and at the end, I’ll predict which song will win and which song I would choose to win if I had the only vote. My predictions haven’t exactly had the best track record, but perhaps this might be a year I get it right. We start off with Husavik (My Hometown), which was featured in 2020’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga. Husavik, written by Rickard Goransson, Fat Max Gsus, and Savan Kotecha, is an interesting song. It’s a sweeping ballad about the movie’s protagonist Sigrit (Rachel McAdams, though the singing was done by My Marianne) expressing love for both her hometown and her singing partner Lars (Will