Iconic songwriter Diane Warren has revealed which Oscar nod was hardest for her to lose – after she was beaten again to the Best Original Song trophy at the 2024 Academy Awards.
Warren, 67, who landed her 15th nomination for The Fire Inside from the film Flamin’ Hot directed by Eva Longoria, was pipped at the post on Sunday by Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?
The hitmaker, who landed an honorary Oscar in 2022, said she is still determined to win a competitive Academy Award, 37 years after she was first nominated for Mannequin track, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now.
Speaking to Variety about new Bess Kargman documentary, Diane Warren: Relentless, Warren said losing the 2016 Oscar for for her song Til It Happens to You (performed by Lady Gaga) to Sam Smith’s James Bond track, Writing’s On The Wall was a bitter pill to swallow.
She said: ‘That was a tough loss that year. That’s the one that was excruciating. Out of all the nominations, that one really stung.’
Iconic songwriter Diane Warren has revealed which Oscar nod was hardest for her to lose – after she was beaten again to the Best Original Song trophy at the 2024 Academy Awards (pictured at Sunday’s Oscars)
Warren, 67, who landed her 15th nomination for The Fire Inside from the film Flamin’ Hot directed by Eva Longoria , was pipped at the post on Sunday by Billie Eilish ‘s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?
The difficult moment is captured on the documentary with Kargman saying: ‘And with the Oscar, it’s hard when you lose. The last thing you want is a camera in your face with someone asking you how it feels to lose? So we decided to tell that through the lens of Diane’s friends. We were able to document their hurt because boy, they were rooting for her.’
Warren added: ‘It would be great to win the competitive Oscar, which has eluded me.
‘But, if I had to choose between winning a competitive Oscar one time and never getting nominated again, I’d choose to get nominated again and never winning. I love to keep getting nominated. It’s awesome.’
Appearing on Larry King in 2016, Warren slated Smith’s win saying ‘everybody thought’ she would win ‘including me.’
‘That Sam Smith song from James Bond that no one really heard, You know, I think it was shocking to him as well.
‘I mean, I don’t mean no one heard it. I think the fact is, my song is kind of, it had such a life of its own, and I think it’ll last a long time.’
Becky G took to the Oscars stage on Sunday to perform The Fire Inside – but the song was beaten to the punch.
Speaking to E!’s Laverne Cox on the red carpet, Eva said: ‘I have goosebumps … I can’t believe it!
‘I can because you know what? Diane Warren wrote the song and she’s a genius, and Becky G is a genius.
Speaking to Variety about new Bess Kargman documentary, Diane Warren: Relentless, Warren said losing the 2016 Oscar for for her song Til It Happens to You (performed by Lady Gaga ) to Sam Smith’s James Bond track, Writing’s On The Wall was a bitter pill to swallow
Smith is pictured with co-writer Jimmy Napes at the 2016 Oscars
The hitmaker, who landed an honorary Oscar in 2022 (pictured with Cher(, said she is still determined to win a competitive Academy Award, 37 years after she was first nominated for Mannequin track, Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
‘And the performance tonight… you will never be more proud to be a Latino.’
Warren’s other previous Oscar nominations are 1987: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (from Mannequin), 1996: Because You Loved Me (from Up Close & Personal), 1997: How Do I Live (from Con Air), 1998: I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing (from Armageddon), 1999: Music of My Heart, 2001: There You’ll Be (from Pearl Harbor), 2014: Grateful (from Beyond the Lights, 2017: Stand Up for Something (from Marshall), 2018 I’ll Fight (from RBG), 2019: I’m Standing with You, 2020: Io sì (Seen) (from The Life Ahead), 2021: Somehow You Do (from Four Good Days) and 2022: Applause (from Tell It Like a Woman).
The star has previously won Grammy, Critics Choice, Golden Globe and Emmy Awards.
