I was up at Barnes and Noble today, doing some writing and decided to take a stretch break and browse through the music and see if anything caught my fancy. Right in front on the Disney movie music section was a compilation album, Disney Box Office Hits. The CD features not one, not two but THREE songs from the Chronicles of Narnia films.

The songs included were “Can’t Take It In” by Imogene Heap from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and “The Call”by Regina Spektor and ” This is Home” by Switchfoot from Prince Caspian. Other artists featured include Jamie Cullum, Five For Fighting, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, John Travolta and singer/songwriter legend, James Taylor.

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The Grammy Foundation has released their picks for the 49th annual Grammy awards, and Narnia has received two nominations!

Harry Gregson-Williams, the film’s composer, has received a nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. The award goes to the best original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show, series or other visual media. The film is up against Hans Zimmer, composer for The Da Vinci Code, John Williams, composer of Memoirs Of A Geisha, John Williams, composer of Munich, and Hans Zimmer, who composed Pirates Of The Caribbean — Dead Man’s Chest.

Imogen Heap has been nominated for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for her song “Can’t Take It In.” This award goes to the best song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. Heap is running against by Melissa Etheridge who wrote “I Need To Wake Up” for the movie An Inconvenient Truth, Randy Newman who wrote “Our Town” for Cars, Mel Brooks for “There’s Nothing Like A Show On Broadway” for the remake of The Producers, and Dolly Parton who wrote “Travelin’ Thru” for Transamerica. “Can’t Take It In” was played during the movie’s credits.

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The nominees to the 2006 World Soundtrack Awards, to be handed out during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium, on October 14, were revealed today. Dario Marianelli, Alberto Iglesias, James Newton Howard and Gustavo Santaolalla all received two nominations each.

”Best Original Song Written for Film”
- “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” from Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla/ Bernie Taupin)
- “Can’t Take It In” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Harry Gregson-Williams/Imogen Heap)
- “Magic Works” from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Jarvis Cocker)
- “Mdlwembe” from Tsotsi (Kabelo ‘Kaybee’ Ikaneng/Zola)
- “Our Town” from Cars (Randy Newman)

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 42 original songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered for the 78th Academy Awards®.

The original songs, along with the motion picture, are listed below in alphabetical order:

“Along the River” from “End of the Spear”
“Angels Talk” from “Angels with Angles”
“Butterfly” from “Because of Winn-Dixie”
“Can’t Take It In” from “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
“Closer Every Day” from “Freezerburn: The Movie”
“Dicholo” from “The Constant Gardener”
“Do the Hippogriff” from “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
“Dreamer” from “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story”
“Face of Faith” from “Rumor Has It”
“Fight for the Children” from “Palindromes”
“Finding Home” from “Finding Home”
“Great Big World” from “Hoodwinked”
“Have a Little Faith” from “The Theory of Everything”
“Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over)” from “Hustle & Flow”
“(I’d Have It All) If I Had Drew” from “My Date with Drew”
“If I Apologize” from “Mirrormask”
“I’ll Be Near You” from “Bee Season”
“I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy” from “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”
“In the Deep” from “Crash”
“It Ain’t Over Yet” from “Racing Stripes”
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from “Hustle & Flow”
“I’ve Gotta See You Smile” from “Because of Winn-Dixie”
“Mad Hot Ballroom” from “Mad Hot Ballroom”
“Move Away and Shine” from “Thumbsucker”
“My Brother, My People” from “Blues by the Beach”
“Nobody Jesus But You” from “Palindromes”
“One Blood” from “Green Street Hooligans”
“One Little Slip” from “Chicken Little”
“One Safe Place” from “The Upside of Anger”
“Reachin’ for Heaven” from “Ice Princess”
“Remains of the Day” from “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
“Same in Any Language” from “Elizabethtown”
“Shine” from “Robots”
“Shoulder to Shoulder” from “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie”
“So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
“Taking the Inside Rail” from “Racing Stripes”
“Tell Me What You Already Did” from “Robots”
“There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway” from “The Producers”
“These Days” from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
“This Is the Way” from “Palindromes”
“Travelin’ Thru” from “Transamerica”
“You’re Gonna Die Soon” from “Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic”

The Academy will screen three-minute clips of each song in random order for music branch voting members on January 17 and again on January 23. At these screenings, members will vote to nominate three to five songs for Oscar consideration.

In order to make this list of eligible submissions, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original, and written specifically for the film.

Nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST.

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