Best Song: "You'll Be in My Heart" (1999)

Scene from Tarzan

Welcome to Best Song, a new weekly column released on Sunday dedicated to chronicling the Best Original Song category over the course of its many decades. The goal is to listen to and critique every song that has ever been nominated in the category as well as find the Best Best Song and the Best Loser. By the end, we'll have a comprehensive list of this music category and will hopefully have a better understanding not only of the evolution, but what it takes to receive a nomination here. It may seem easy now, but wait until the bad years.

A Look Back at the Time Wes Craven Got Meryl Streep an Oscar Nomination

Meryl Streep in Music of the Heart

Yesterday marked the passing of legendary horror director Wes Craven. You may likely know him best as the creator of Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street (which was also Johnny Depp's film debut) or for the revisionist horror franchise Scream. The man has done a lot for the genre over a career spanning 43 years. Yet there was one time in his career where he stepped away from the blood and gore and gave us something very different. In 1999, he made his sole film outside of horror called Music of the Heart. The results were a little more than astounding.