21 Musicians You Didn't Know Were Nominated For Oscars

"His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy."

1. The Beatles

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Category: Best Original Song Score

Film: Let It Be (1971)

Won (Quincy Jones accepted the award on their behalf)

2. Diana Ross

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Category: Best Actress

Film: Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Lost (To Liza Minnelli for Cabaret)

3. Duke Ellington

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Category: Scoring of a Musical Production

Film: Paris Blues (1961)

Lost (To Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, and Irwin Kostal for West Side Story)

4. Stevie Wonder

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Category: Best Original Song ("I Just Called to Say I Love You")

Film: The Woman in Red (1984)

Won

5. Eminem

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Category: Best Original Song ("Lose Yourself")

Film: 8 Mile (2002)

Won (Luis Resto accepted the award on his behalf)

6. Queen Latifah

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Category: Best Supporting Actress

Film: Chicago (2002)

Lost (To Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago)

7. Bruce Springsteen

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Category: Best Original Song ("Streets of Philadelphia")

Film: Philadelphia (1993)

Won

Springsteen was also nominated for Best Original Song for "Dead Man Walkin'" from Dead Man Walking (1995), but lost to Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz for "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas (1995).

8. Pete Townshend

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Category: Adaptation Score

Film: Tommy (1975)

Lost (To Leonard Rosenman for Barry Lyndon)

9. Peggy Lee

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Category: Best Supporting Actress

Film: Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

Lost (To Jo Van Fleet for East of Eden)

10. Tom Waits

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Category: Best Music/Original Song Score

Film: One from the Heart (1982)

Lost (To Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse for Victor Victoria)

11. Dolly Parton

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Category: Best Original Song ("9 to 5")

Film: 9 to 5 (1980)

Lost (To Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford for "Fame" from Fame)

Parton was also nominated in 2006 for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song for "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica.

12. Prince

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Category: Best Original Song Score

Film: Purple Rain (1984)

Won

13. Melissa Etheridge

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Category: Best Original Song ("I Need to Wake Up")

Film: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Won

14. Lionel Richie

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Category: Best Original Song ("Say You, Say Me")

Film: White Nights (1986)

Won

Richie was also nominated for Best Original Song for "Endless Love" from Endless Love (1981), "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple (1985) with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton.

15. Ann-Margret

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Category: Best Actress

Film: Tommy (1975)

Lost (To Louise Fletcher for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

Ann-Margret was also nominated in 1971 for Best Supporting Actress for Carnal Knowledge.

16. Sissy Spacek

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Category: Best Actress

Film: Carrie (1976)

Lost (To Faye Dunaway for Network)

Spacek was also nominated for Best Actress for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and won, Missing (1982), The River (1984), Crimes of the Heart (1986), and In the Bedroom (2001).

17. Phil Collins

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Category: Best Original Song ("You'll Be In My Heart")

Film: Tarzan (2000)

Won

Collins was also nominated for Best Original Song for "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" from Against All Odds (1984), "Separate Lives" from White Nights (1985), "Two Hearts" from Buster (1988).

18. Bette Midler

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Category: Best Actress

Film: The Rose (1979)

Lost (To Sally Field for Norma Rae)

Midler was also nominated for Best Actress for For the Boys (1991)

19. Bob Dylan

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Category: Best Original Song ("Things Have Changed")

Film: Wonder Boys (2001)

Won

20. Carly Simon

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Category: Best Original Song ("Let the River Run")

Film: Working Girl (1989)

Won

21. Three 6 Mafia

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Category: Best Original Song ("It's Hard out Here for a Pimp")

Film: Hustle & Flow (2005)

Won