Songs With Missing Nominations 2

Madonna gets no love from the Academy. For anything. Though two of the songs she's performed written by others ("Sooner or Later" from DICK TRACY and "You Must Love Me" from EVITA) went on to win the Oscar for Best Song for Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice, none of the songs she personally has penned ever made the short list. "Live to Tell" from AT CLOSE RANGE, "Who's That Girl" from the film of the same name, "I'll Remember" from WITH HONORS, and "Beautiful Stranger" from AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME all got shafted. Perhaps the best of her songs not to be nominated is "This Used To Be My Playground" from A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. Written by Madonna and Shep Pettibone and sung by the Material Girl herself, it was a world wide hit in the summer of 1992. At the Oscars that year, "A Whole New World" from ALADDIN continued Disney's monopoly on the song category that started with THE LITTLE MERMAID in 1989. Of the nominated songs that year, I would have chosen the other ALADDIN song, "Friend Like Me."