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Lady Gaga is predicted to win two Oscars for her first film as leading lady: Best Actress and Best Original Song. While she is locked in a tight race for the acting award, with Glenn Close looking for her first win after six losses, Lady Gaga is all but certain to take home the Academy Award for her work on the hit tune “Shallow.”
She is credited as a co-writer with a trio of men: Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossomando and Mark Ronson. Should she prevail, she’d become the 11th woman to win an Oscar for composing. The first, Barbra Streisand, also won for writing the music for a song in her version of “A Star is Born.” Back in 1976, Streisand wrote and sang “Evergreen,” which has become one of the top hits in her repertoire.
Since Streisand made Academy Awards history, nine female composers have followed her up to the podium. The most recent of those, Kristen Anderson-Lopez , won twice for songs she co-wrote with her husband, Robert Lopez: “Let It Go” from “Frozen” (2013) and “Remember Me” from “Coco” (2017).
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Five years after Streisand prevailed, Carole Bayer Sager shared in the win for “Best That You Can Do,” the theme from “Arthur,” with Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach and singer/songwriter Christopher Cross. The following year, Buffy Saint-Marie and co-composer Jack Nitzsche as well as lyricist Will Jennings won for “Up Where You Belong” from “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
In 1988, Carly Simon made Oscar history as the first woman to win this award alone, having written both the words and music for the anthem “Let the River Run” from “Working Girl.” Nearly two decades later, Melissa Etheridge became the second woman to do so with “I Need to Wake Up” from “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006.
Annie Lennox and Fran Walsh were the first female composers to share this Oscar with their 2003 win for “Into the West,” which they co-wrote with Howard Shore for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” Four years later, Marketa Irglova shared in the win for “Falling Slowly” from “Once” with Glen Hansard. In 2013, Adele made Oscar history by penning, with her pal Paul Epworth, the first James Bond title track to prevail: “Skyfall.”
Be sure to check out how our experts rank this year’s Oscar contenders. Then take a look at the most up-to-date combined odds before you make your own Oscar predictions. Don’t be afraid to jump in now since you can keep changing your predictions until just before nominations are announced on January 22.
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