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Diane Warren chats with THR at the Oscars red carpet about what she would like to make happen tonight at the ceremony. Plus, she expresses her disappointment when she found out the nominee of Best Original Song wouldn't be performing at the Oscars.
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00:00Here we are again, how are we feeling, what's the strategy tonight?
00:03I'm just, I'm just, I'm excited to be here and look at the back of my-
00:08Make it effing happen.
00:11Yeah, you weren't happy about that.
00:13What?
00:14The question he's asking you.
00:15What are we trying to make effing happen tonight?
00:18Trying to, can I say, I'm trying to, it'll be great.
00:24It'll be great to actually win because I haven't won 15 times.
00:27That being said, it is winning being here because it's not easy to get nominated for
00:32an Academy Award.
00:33There's only five songs and if they, if your song's chosen by your peers, which are the
00:38best of the best, like you did, that's winning on a, on a, on a certain level, on a big level.
00:46Of course.
00:47But it would be fun to-
00:48Make it effing happen.
00:49Yeah.
00:50To make it effing happen.
00:51Make it effing happen.
00:52A little bit of a change tonight in the telecast without the performances of the original
00:57songs.
00:58How are you feeling about that?
00:59I'm, no one was happy about that, including me.
01:02I, I, that's such a moment, you know, and, and there's other music, but not the nominated
01:08song.
01:09So I didn't quite understand that, but it's not my decision.
01:11And, um, it just, it was, it was disappointing.
01:14I would have, I think everybody would have liked to have heard her sing the journey, especially
01:20what's going on, how that song's resonating and Elton John and all these other artists
01:24that, that were nominated by their, by the Academy.
01:27So, but you know what?
01:29We're here and this is what it is and I'm just happy to be here and it's an honor.
01:34It really is.
01:34But also, make it, make it fucking happen.
01:38There we go.
01:39Sweep 16.
01:40It'll be great.
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