best original song<\/a> since 2016, a streak that practically marks her as a shoo-in for another nod in 2027, regardless of the world\u2019s foreknowledge of what songs she has coming this year. In the meantime, she has now gotten a nod in that category 17 total times without a win, which finally puts her on top with the all-time record for the most nominated person to not yet have a competitive Oscar.<\/p>\n\n\tOf course, Warren is far from altogether Oscar-less, having picked up an honorary Academy Award at the Governors Award in 2022, although that has not dampened her enthusiasm to win a competitive trophy\u2026 or lessened the Academy\u2019s eagerness to put her in a near-miss position year after year.<\/p>\n
\n\tAt least she couldn\u2019t call it unexpected this year, as the chart-topping pop smash \u201cGolden\u201d from \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d was pegged by every prognosticator to walk away with the prize. <\/p>\n
\n\tAt least if Warren had won this year, they would not have had to awkwardly use music to play off a second person waiting at the mic to give a speech, since Warren famously almost never uses a co-writer, making her a unicorn among modern tunesmiths.<\/p>\n
\n\tWarren was up for \u201cDear Me,\u201d a ballad she wrote for \u201cDiane Warren: Relentless,\u201d a documentary about her own life, sung by Kesha.<\/p>\n
\n\tAsked recently by the New York Times if winning the honorary Oscar made up for not getting a standard Academy Award, Warren said, \u201cYou know, I still haven\u2019t won the competitive one. And I\u2019m a competitive person. It\u2019s amazing to have the honorary Oscar \u2014 that\u2019s harder to get than the competitive. I don\u2019t take that for granted. But, yeah, I still want to win. My honorary Oscar gets really lonely. He wants a friend. He hangs out with Rabbit, my cat, but he prefers to have an Oscar buddy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe noted that, coming into the ceremony, she was tied with a pal for the most nominations and losses without a win.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not validation,\u201d she told the Times. \u201cIt would just be fun. And now I just keep beating my own record, I guess. Right now, I\u2019m tied with my friend Greg Russell; we both have lost 16 times. But I\u2019ve never taken awards as validation. The work is validation. When people love the songs, that\u2019s validation. Who doesn\u2019t want to win, right? But you can\u2019t live and die by that because it\u2019s out of your control. What\u2019s in my control is to do the best work I can.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tThe friend who was previously tied with her, Greg P. Russell, is a 16-times-nominated sound mixer who now has to settle for second place in this unique competition.<\/p>\n
\n\tWarren recognized that, entering the final stretch, \u201cI know I\u2019m the underdog, for sure \u2014 or undercat. Can I be an undercat? I\u2019m a cat person. They\u2019re fast and they\u2019ve got claws.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWarren long since set a record for the woman with the most nominations in the best original song category. If she does get nominated again next year, she will be tied for the second-most for any songwriter, with Johnny Mercer, who scored 18 in his lifetime. She still has a few to go to beat Sammy Cahn, who scored 26, as the most-nominated ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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