No one was more surprised to see Diane Warren listed among this year’s Best Original Song nominees than Diane Warren herself.
“I’m still shocked,” Warren, who was nominated for writing “Grateful” from “Beyond the Lights,” told HuffPost Entertainment. “This year there was Coldplay, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Jennifer Lawrence sang a song, Imagine Dragons, Patti Smith — and I’m leaving off 50 others. There were so many people this year.”
Warren has seven career nominations now, but this year marks her first since “There You’ll Be” from 2001’s “Pearl Harbor.”
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And while “Grateful” sits as an underdog contender behind favorites like “Glory” from “Selma” and “Everything Is Awesome!!!” from “The LEGO Movie,” Warren isn’t ready to chalk up another defeat.
“The little teeny song from the little teeny movie. My seventh nomination after losing six times. Who knows?” she said. “It could go all the way. Literally, everything is so against it. All these people are doing videos and going out. You know what? I’m a scrappy little fighter. My song’s a scrappy little fighter.”
