It’s possible you’ll not be capable of catch her now, however the Oscars simply would possibly be capable of.
As awards season kicks into excessive gear, Olivia Rodrigo has her sights set on the Academy Awards. On the Academy’s 14th annual Governors Awards on Tuesday, the Grammy-winner dished on the Oscar probabilities for her music “Can’t Catch Me Now” from The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and her plans for her upcoming twenty first birthday.
“It’s so unimaginable,” Rodrigo gushed to Entry Hollywood of her Starvation Video games prequel monitor making the Academy’s shortlist for greatest unique music. “There’s simply so many individuals on that record who I’m impressed by, so many songs that I feel are unimaginable, so it’s an honor.”
Rodrigo, alongside go-to collaborator Dan Nigro, co-wrote and carried out “Can’t Catch Me Now” for the box-office-topping Starvation Video games prequel starring Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis, Hunter Schafer and Tom Blyth. The haunting Americana-inflected monitor reached No. 56 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. On the 2023 Hollywood Music in Media Awards, “Can’t Catch Me Now” received greatest unique music in a sci-fi, fantasy or horror movie.
Along with “Can’t Catch Me Now,” different notable songs on the Academy’s shortlist embody Billie Eilish‘s “What Was I Made For?” (from Barbie) — which received the equal Golden Globe Award on Sunday — Fantasia‘s “Superpower (I)” (from The Colour Purple), The Osage Tribe’s “Wahzhazhe (A Track for My Folks)” (from Killers of the Flower Moon) and Jon Batiste‘s “It By no means Went Away” (from American Symphony).
Though she finds herself amongst stiff competitors, Rodrigo didn’t write her Starvation Video games monitor with the intention of coming into the Oscar race. “I feel that if I used to be writing a music and thought of how different folks had been gonna hear it, I simply could be so overcome by anxiousness that I couldn’t write in any respect,” she informed Entry Hollywood. “So I attempt to form of block that each one out and simply write for me.”
In a while the pink carpet, the “Traitor” singer spilled her birthday plans to Leisure Tonight. “It is an enormous birthday,” she stated. “I feel I’m gonna have a celebration with my pals and pop some champagne, you realize? It’s the twenty first!” The multihyphenate turns 21 subsequent month (Feb. 20), however she says Vegas isn’t fairly in her line of sight but. “I’ll save that. I’ll save that for later,” she stated.
Shortly earlier than her birthday, Rodrigo will benefit from the 66th annual Grammy Awards, the place she boasts six nominations, together with in album of the 12 months (Guts) and file and music of the 12 months (“Vampire”). The Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Collection alum already has three Golden Gramophones to her identify; she took residence greatest new artist, greatest pop vocal album (Bitter) and greatest pop solo efficiency (“Drivers License”) on the 2022 ceremony.
