The Barenaked Ladies and Bryan Adams are in the running for Oscars.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its list of the 42 songs being considered for best original song.

Adams, a three-time Oscar nominee, has been named for It Ain’t Over Yet, a song he wrote for the movie, Racing Stripes.

Vancouver-based Adams was previously nominated for his work on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (for which he also won a Grammy), Don Juan DeMarco and The Mirror Has Two Faces.

The Toronto-based Barenaked Ladies have been named for One Little Slip. The song was used in the Disney animated film Chicken Little.

The long list of 42 songs will be whittled down to five final choices to be announced January 31st.

Among the competition is Carly Simon’s Shoulder to Shoulder from Pooh’s Heffalump Movie, and 50 Cent’s song I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy from Get Rich or Die Tryin’.

Other artists with movie songs under consideration are Fountains of Wayne, Leigh Nash of Sixpence None The Richer, Polyphonic Spree, Sting and members of Radiohead.

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Comments:

1. tomal Says:
   December 17th, 2005 at 1:52 am

   bryan deserves that award

2. Nishant Says:
   December 17th, 2005 at 10:56 am

   i think bryan truly deserves this..it has already eluded him thrice..

3. Altamash khan Says:
   December 19th, 2005 at 9:11 pm

   Bryan really deserves the award he really is the best in the business

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