The Songwriters Hall of Fame will celebrate this year’s Academy Award-nominated songwriters with “A Conversation with the 2024 Academy Award Nominated Songwriters for Best Original Song,” which can be viewed for free on Songhall.org from February 8 at 9 a.m. PT through March 10 .
This is the eighth annual Songwriters Hall of Fame program highlighting top songwriters who have been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category.
The event is co-hosted and moderated by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees Nile Rodgers, who currently serves as Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Paul Williams, a Johnny Mercer Award winner and winner of the 1977 Academy Award for Best Original Song for Evergreen.
The panel includes Oscar-nominated songwriters Jon Batiste (co-writer with Dan Wilson). It never went away from American Symphony; Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, co-writers of What are you made for? from Barbie; Scott George, writer Wahzhazhe (Song for my people) from Moonflower Killers; Mark Ronson and Andrew White, co-authors of I’m just Ken from Barbie; Diane Warren, writer Fire inside from Flamin Hot.
Nominees will engage in a discussion about how they became involved with the films, their influences, the writing and collaboration process, and more.