Rock At the Oscars
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1985
Stevie Wonder poses with his Oscar statuette backstage at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 25, 1985. Wonder won the Best Original Song award for "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (from The Woman in Red).
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1991
Madonna performs "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from the film Dick Tracy during the 1991 Academy Awards show. The Material Girl took home the Oscar for Best Original Song later that night.
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1994
Bruce Springsteen holds his Oscar presented to him by Whitney Houston at the 1994 Academy Awards. Springsteen won the prize for Best Original Song for "Streets of Philadelphia" from the movie Philadelphia.
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1996
Bruce Springsteen performs during the Academy Awards in 1996. Springsteen was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song for "Dead Man Walking" (from the film of the same name), but lost the prize to Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz's "Colors of the Wind" (from Pocahontas). -
1997
Madonna performs "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from the Oscar-nominated movie Evita during the Academy Awards in 1997. The film took home the prize for Best Original Song.
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1998
At the 1998 Academy Awards, Elliott Smith performs his song "Miss Misery," his Oscar-nominated tune from the film Good Will Hunting. Smith lost the prize to "My Heart Will Go On," from Titanic.
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1999
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1999
Celine Dion and husband Rene Angelil arrive at the Academy Awards in 1999. -
1999
Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston perform the song "When You Believe" at the 1999 Academy Awards.
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2000
Ray Charles, Garth Brooks, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Faith Hill, Isaac Hayes and Queen Latifah perform a medley of past Best Original Song winners at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2000. -
2000
Phil Collins performs his Oscar-winning song "You'll Be In My Heart" at the Academy Awards in 2000. -
2000
In one of Oscar's more surreal moments, Robin Williams performs the song "Blame Canada" (from South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut during the 2000 Academy Awards. The track was nominated for Best Original Song but lost to Phil Collins' "You'll Be In My Heart" (from Tarzan.) -
2001
Bjork wore her notorious "swan dress" at the 2001 Academy Awards, where her song "I've Seen It All" was nominated for Best Original Song.
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2001
Randy Newman and Susanna Hoffs perform the Oscar-nominated song "A Fool In Love" (from Meet the Parents) at the Academy Awards in 2001. -
2002
Randy Newman performs "If I Didn't Have You" with actor John Goodman at the Oscar ceremony in 2002. The track, from Monsters, Inc., won Best Original Song and was Newman's first Oscar after having been nominated sixteen times. -
2002
Enya performs Best Original Song nominee "May It Be" (from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) at the Academy Awards in 2002.
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2003
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Queen Latifah perform music from the musical Chicago (which won Best Motion Picture) during the Academy Awards in 2003.
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2004
Annie Lennox belts out the Oscar-winning "Into the West" (from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) at the 2004 Academy Awards.
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2004
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara perform the Oscar-nominated "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" at the Academy Awards in 2004. The song (from the mockumentary A Mighty Wind) lost out to "Into the West," from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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2004
Allison Krauss and Elvis Costello perform the Oscar-nominated song "The Scarlet Tide" (from Cold Mountain) at the Academy Awards in 2004.
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2005
The Counting Crows' Adam Duritz performs "Accidentally in Love" from Shrek 2 at the 2005 Academy Awards. The song lost to " Al Otro Lado Del Rio" from The Motorcycle Diaries.
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2005
Beyonce performs at the 2005 Academy Awards.
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2005
Beyonce and Josh Groban perform "Believe" from The Polar Express at the 2005 Academy Awards. "Believe" lost to The Motorcycle Diaries' "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" for best original song.
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2005
Carlos Santana and Antonio Banderas perform Best Original Song "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" from The Motorcycle Diaries at the 2005 Academy Awards.
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2005
Prince congratulates Uruguyan composer Jorge Drexler for winning the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Al Otro Lado Del Rio" from The Motorcycle Diaries Academy Awards in 2005.
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2006
Bird York performs Best Song Nominee "In The Deep" from Crash at the 2006 Academy Awards. The song lost to Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow.
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2006
Dolly Parton performs her song "Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica during the 2006 Academy Awards. Parton lost the Best Original Song category to Three 6 Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow.
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2006
Three 6 Mafia and actress Taraji P. Henson perform "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow at the 2006 Academy Awards. The track was named Best Original Song.
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2006
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs at the 2006 Academy Awards before a scene from Brokeback Mountain. -
2007
Melissa Etheridge performs "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth during the 2007 Academy Awards. The track was named Best Original Song. -
2007
Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce Knowles and Anika Noni Rose perform nominated song "Patience" from Dreamgirls during the 79th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre on February 25, 2007 in Hollywood, California.
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2007
James Taylor performs "Our Town," a Best Song nominee from Cars with music and lyrics written by Randy Newman, during the 2007 Academy Awards. The song lost to Melissa' Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth. -
2007
Celine Dion performs world premiere of "I Knew I Loved You" in tribute to Honorary Academy Award recipient Ennio Morricone at the 2007 Academy Awards.
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2008
Winner for Best Original Song Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova accept the trophy for "Falling Slowly" from the film Once during the 80th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2008.
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2008
Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard perform their song from "Once" during the 80th Annual Academy Awards held at the Kodak Theatre on February 24, 2008 in Hollywood, California.
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2009
Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway Knowles perform at the 2009 Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 22, 2009.
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2009
Hugh Jackman and Beyoncé Knowles perform at the 2009 Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 22, 2009.
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2009
A.R. Rahman performs his Oscar winning song from <em>Slumdog Millionaire</em> with John Legend at the 2009 Academy Awards in Hollywood, February 22, 2009.
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2010
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin host the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood, March 7, 2010.
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2010
Neil Patrick Harris performs at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood, March 7,2010.
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2010
T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham accept the Oscar for best song for their song 'the Weary Kind' featured in the film <em>Crazy Heart</em> at the 2010 Oscar Awards in Hollywood, March 7, 2010.