Oscars 2015: 8 Biggest Mistakes The Academy Made

3. Best Original Song

What Won: Glory - John Legend and Common (Selma) Recently, the Best Original Song category has become about recognising great, widely loved films that could easily have been otherwise ignored - The Muppets, Skyfall, Frozen. This year that was certainly true, but to a much more extreme degree; the category became a battle for a consolation prize for the two biggest snubs of these awards; The Lego Movie and Selma. After the pre-announcement rendition incited a standing ovation, with stars reduced to camera-friendly streams of tears, Glory was clearly the popular winner in the Dolby Theatre, treated by many as a the Academy admitting they messed up with the nominations. What Should Have Won: Everything Is Awesome - Shawn Patterson (The Lego Movie) C'mon guys, give The Lego Movie some love. Everything Is Awesome is a fun and catchy song that went above being a single tie-in to a merchandising feature, which is a pretty damn big achievement. That's not to say Glory isn't a good song, but, as the strong reaction to the racially charged acceptance speech proved, the statue wasn't really about the award in question, but the politics surrounding Selma, which isn't what a ceremony honouring film should be about. If movies were awarded on the emotional strength of what they were about, as opposed to what they actually brought to the table, then The Imitation Game would have swept the board.