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Spinning the Oscar nominees for Best Original Song

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom
Published February 20, 2026 at 11:04 AM CST
Breakthrough of the year honorees Rei Ami, left, Ejae and Audrey Nuna from "KPop Demon Hunters" attends the A Year in TIME honors gala at Current at Chelsea Piers on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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Breakthrough of the year honorees Rei Ami, left, Ejae and Audrey Nuna from "KPop Demon Hunters" attends the A Year in TIME honors gala at Current at Chelsea Piers on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong takes a listen to this year’s nominees for the Academy Award for Best Original Song with Jon Burlingame, who writes for Variety and teaches film history at the University of Southern California.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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