Diane Warren is determined to return to Oscars After missing the best price for the original song during the 2025 ceremony.
The songwriter, who returned home, empty-handed on Sunday evening, missing the best price for the original song for the 16th time, tell the variety She would “return” to an interview with Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday evening.
“I am happy to be nominated,” Warren told Variety at the event, adding: “I am coherent as F —.”
“This is what it is,” continued the singer-songwriter. “I am happy to be here.”
Warren was nominated for his original song “The Journey” from the film “The Six Triple Eight”. In the end, “El Mal” by “Emilia Pérez” won the category prize.
Warren was nominated for an Oscar for the first time in 1987 for his song “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” from the film “Mannequin”. She received a Honorary Oscar in 2022.
The songwriter shared a message of resilience on Sunday evening, suggesting that she hopes to be back to the future Academy Awards for her work.
Diane Warren attended the 97th annual Oscars at the Dolby Theater on March 2, 2025, in Hollywood, California.
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“I will come back. I am the Oscar terminator,” she joked, referring to the classic slogan of the 1984 film “The Terminator”.
“I come back,” she reiterated. “I can’t get rid of me.”
Warren said that she would have liked to hear the performances of the best nominees for original songs, a tradition that the Oscars have chosen not to repeat this year.
“It would have been great to hear the songs played as they have always done,” said Warren. “I think a lot of people were not satisfied with that.”
Before the show, Warren expressed a similar Feeling to an independent threadDeclaring: “It’s always a real highlight, especially when you have a nominated song. I was so lucky. I think of Lady Gaga singing my song” Til It comes to you “, this performance was just electric.”
She added that a song like “The Journey” “really sounds right now. People are using this song everywhere for so many different things … It would have been good, but I’m just happy to be here.”
Warren said that she would not be slowed down by the loss and that tomorrow she “would return to work”.
“I was happy to be here,” she told Variety. “I thought I was lucky this time, but it didn’t go like that, but I’m still there.”
“The Journey” was sung by the Oscar winner
After discovering his appointment in January, Warren said “Good Morning America” That the song is “special” for her.
“I think of me [it is] One of my best songs, “she said at the time.
