Mudbound

In 2015, I had written an article about the Best Original Song nominees of the 87th Oscars. That year’s Academy Awards ceremony saw “Glory” from the Martin Luther King biopic Selma win the Best Original Song Oscar in a field that also saw competition from films like The Lego Movie and the Glen Campbell documentary I’ll Be Me. I didn’t write articles about the Best Original Song nominees for the 88th and 89th Oscars, but I figured that with 2018 marking the 90th anniversary of the Oscars, it would be nice to return to writing about them. As I did in 2015, I’ll be writing about the songs that were nominated, and then I’ll predict who will win, as well as mention who I would like to see take home the Oscar. The first nominated song is “Mighty River”, performed by Mary J. Blige and written by Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson from the Netflix release Mudbound. The movie itself is a powerful drama about racism and the aftereffects