Best Song: "I'm Easy" (1975)

Scene from Nashville

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.

Will "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" Get the Talented Young Actors Some Nominations?

Rooney Mara

With summer winding down and the Oscar Buzz season slightly on the horizon, we have quite a season to look forward to. One of the possibly more wild predictions would be surrounding director David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, which based on the trailer would suggest that it is yet another version of a Terrence Malick film, if just because of the sweeping imagery and emphasis on nature. Still, one thing makes this particular film an intriguing one, and it is the leads, who may not be household names yet, but each have been nominated before. Is it possible that this film can become one of the underdog success stories at the ceremony next year?