Clément Ducol and Camille have received the 2025 Academy Award for Best Original Song for “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez. The songwriters will take house statuettes for the monitor, which is carried out by Camille, incomes their first-ever Oscars. The opposite nominees had been “Mi Camino” additionally from Emilia Pérez; “By no means Too Late,” from Elton John: By no means Too Late; “The Journey,” from The Six Triple Eight; and “Like a Hen,” from Sing Sing.
The Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger offered the award, and he had just a few jokes up his sleeve about his fellow classic-rock up to date. “The producers actually needed Bob Dylan to do that,” stated Jagger. “Bob didn’t need to do it as a result of he stated the most effective songs this 12 months had been clearly within the film A Full Unknown. Bob stated, ‘You must discover any individual youthful.’ I stated, ‘Okay! I’m youthful! I’m younger sufficient, Bob! I’ll do it!’ So right here I’m.”
Whereas accepting the award, Camille sang a little bit of the Rolling Stones’ hit “Sympathy for the Satan” after which gave a brief speech thanking the Emilia Pérez solid and crew, and explaining the purpose of the songs they created. “We hope it speaks to the position music and artwork can play and proceed to play as a power of the nice and progress on the earth,” she stated.
Among the many shedding nominees are just a few acquainted names, together with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, who wrote “Like a Hen” for Sing Sing with Abraham Alexander, in addition to EGOT-holder Elton John and his “By no means Too Late” writing companions Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt, and Bernie Taupin. Clément Ducol and Camille had been up for the Emilia Pérez tracks, and the film’s director, Jacques Audiard, additionally had a writing credit score on “El Mal,” which might have made for his first-ever Oscar. Perennial runner-up Diane Warren was the nominee for The Six Triple Eight’s “The Journey.”
Final 12 months, Billie Eilish and Finneas scored Barbie’s sole statuette, in Best Original Song, with “What Was I Made For?”
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