Oscars show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that singer-songwriter Karen O will, for the first time, perform the Academy Award-nominated original song The Moon Song for a global television audience on the Oscars on March 2, 2014. The song from Spike Jonze’s romantic drama Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara is one of the four nominated titles in the Best Original Song category. It was previously announced that all the three other songs (Happy from Despicable Me 2, Let It Go from Frozen and Ordinary Love from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) will also be performed at the event. Karen O who is the lead singer of the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and has previously written songs for Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are is Oscar-nominated for the first time.
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‘The Moon Song’ (Music from and Inspired by ‘Her’) Single Released
WaterTower Music has released the single The Moon Song featuring music from and inspired by Spike Jonze’s Academy Award-nominated drama Her. The release includes three recordings of The Moon Song, which is up for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category. One version is performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joaquin Phoenix and is featured in the film and another version is performed by Karen O and plays over the movie’s end credits. The third version is a new recording of the song, which features Karen O in a duet with Ezra Koenig, singer and guitarist of Vampire Weekend. To download the single, visit iTunes. Her is written and directed by Spike Jonze and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde and Scarlett Johansson. The movie about a complex, soulful man who becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right is currently playing in theaters.