Three unreleased songs, two oldies reinvented, and two rarities: more presidents added to "Campaigner" and a 1994 Oscar-nominated song live at the Awards ceremony.
"Mean Green" was the first Oscar-nominated song to contain profanity in the lyrics and thus had to be slightly censored for the show.
Tom Jones sang the Oscar-nominated song "Come To Me".
She also sang at the Academy Awards presentation in 1962, singing the Oscar-nominated song "Theme from Bachelor in Paradise."
No less than 20 unbroken minutes had been devoted to production numbers inspired by the Oscar-nominated songs - about twice as much time as was devoted to clips from all five of the nominated films together.
"The Rainbow Connection" (Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated song)
The official video for the Oscar-nominated song from the film 127 Hours.
("Ben," a 1972 "Willard" sequel, was named after a rodent so special that Michael Jackson sang an Oscar-nominated song to him.)
Terrence Howard was to perform the Oscar-nominated song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" at the Oscars, but he declined.
A trust named after Carnatic musician Irayimman Thampi has accused Bombay Jayashri's Oscar-nominated song 'Pi's Lullaby' of not being an original composition.
