Janelle Monae has made successful ventures into acting with the films “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures” as well as the Amazon series “Homecoming.” But she’s still probably best known for her work as a singer-songwriter. So it’s ironic that she could win her first Oscar this year while the Grammys keep giving her the cold shoulder.
Monae made the Oscars shortlist for co-writing the original song “Turntables” (watch the video above) with George A. Peters II and Nathaniel Irvin III for the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” which recounts the history of voter suppression in the United States and the efforts of Georgia politician Stacey Abrams to make the system truly democratic.
SEELisa Cortes interview: ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ documentary
This would be only the second Oscar-winning song from a documentary, following Melissa Etheridge‘s political anthem “I Need to Wake Up” from 2006’s climate change doc “An Inconvenient Truth.
Monae made the Oscars shortlist for co-writing the original song “Turntables” (watch the video above) with George A. Peters II and Nathaniel Irvin III for the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” which recounts the history of voter suppression in the United States and the efforts of Georgia politician Stacey Abrams to make the system truly democratic.
SEELisa Cortes interview: ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy’ documentary
This would be only the second Oscar-winning song from a documentary, following Melissa Etheridge‘s political anthem “I Need to Wake Up” from 2006’s climate change doc “An Inconvenient Truth.
- 2/23/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
A version of this story about Janelle Monáe first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
When Stacey Abrams and the filmmakers behind the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy” came to Janelle Monáe in the spring of 2020, the singer, songwriter and actress had no intention of going into the studio to record any new music. “Like the rest of the world, I was trying to make sense of the world we were living in,” she said. “We were in a pandemic, people were dying, we had an election coming.
“But I watched the documentary, which walks through voter suppression and where we are and how far we’ve come or how far we haven’t come. And I felt I had a responsibility to show up for Stacey and write a song about the state of our country. We need to all pitch in...
When Stacey Abrams and the filmmakers behind the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy” came to Janelle Monáe in the spring of 2020, the singer, songwriter and actress had no intention of going into the studio to record any new music. “Like the rest of the world, I was trying to make sense of the world we were living in,” she said. “We were in a pandemic, people were dying, we had an election coming.
“But I watched the documentary, which walks through voter suppression and where we are and how far we’ve come or how far we haven’t come. And I felt I had a responsibility to show up for Stacey and write a song about the state of our country. We need to all pitch in...
- 1/11/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
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