Common gives amazing Oscar performance but loses best song category

Mar 4, 2018

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Common secured his second Academy Award for Best Original Song at Sunday night’s Oscars for the movie Marshall, but it wasn’t enough to take home the statue.

Unfortunately he lost in to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez won the Academy Award for best original song for “Remember Me” from the film Coco.

It’s the team’s second Oscar in this category. They won for their work in Frozen.

“I really want to look at this category of incredible nominated songwriters tonight. Not only are we diverse, but we are close to 50/50 for gender representation,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez said in her acceptance speech.

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“When you look — when you look at a category like ours, it helps us imagine a world where all the categories look like this one.”

A performance to remember

Common and Andra Day’s performance for their Oscar-nominated song Stand Up For Something from Marshall did bring the house down at the Oscars.

It was a fitting tribute to the film celebrating the work of a legend

Marshall is a 2017 film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the first African-American to serve in the high court. It also stars Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell.

Common told Forbes in 2015 what winning an Oscar meant to him.

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“I mean, it’s the highest achievement that I’ve gotten award-wise in my life up to this time. I think it’s because the Oscar is such a prestigious and elegant award; it has such an untouchable feeling. When you think about the highest award, the award that’s most revered, it’s the Oscar–it’s an Academy Award.”

“And you gotta think, the Oscars are an award that other artists nominate you for: directors vote, actors vote, musicians vote, directors of photography vote; it’s dope, it’s great to get that.”