Best Original Song Nominees Not to Be Performed at Academy Awards

For the second consecutive year, Oscar producers have changed how Best Original Song nominees will be presented during the telecast.

This year's telecast will not feature performances of the songs. Instead, snippets of the five nominated tracks will be heard during montages of the films in which they appear.

Last year, the Academy streamlined all the nominated tracks into one medley. The move caused Peter Gabriel to boycott the performance because he didn’t want to present an abridged version of his song, “Down to Earth,” according to Rolling Stone.

This year's nominees are a pair of Randy Newman songs from The Princess and the Frog (“Almost There” and “Down to New Orleans”), “Take it All” from Nine, “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36, and “The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart.