Big names in the running for possible best song Oscar nomination

Coldplay’s Miracles appears in the film Unbroken; Lorde’s Yellow Flicker Beat closes The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One. Sia and Greg Kurstin’s Opportunity is a showstopper in Annie; and Smith’s Mercy Is is sung by Russell Crowe in Noah. Campbell’s I’m Not Gonna Miss You, recorded at his final session, provides a final moment of poignancy in the documentary about his fight against Alzheimer’s, Glen Campbell … I’ll Be Me. Other pop stars in the running include John Legend and Common’s Glory in Selma, Lana Del Rey’s performance of the title song to Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, Adam Levine and Keira Knightley’s versions of Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois’s Lost Stars from Begin Again and Fall Out Boy’s Immortals from Big Hero 6. Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is represented with America For Me from A Most Violent Year. Two songs from The Fault in Our Stars are in the running, Grouplove’s Let Me In and Birdy’s 
Not About Angels. Bon Iver’s Heavenly Father and the Shins’ So Now What were submitted from Zac Braff’s Wish I Was Here.