The Pixar Blog has some exciting news for those of us who LOVED the soundtrack to Cars:  the “Cars 2″ soundtrack will feature two original songs from the film.
Now, if they can top the music from the original, it will be a feat.  But since it was so good the first time around, we’re pretty confident it will be great this time, too.
An unnamed source tells Mike that the two songs will be performed by different artists, but that one of the songs, a duet, will feature an encore performance …

At last night’s star-studded 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, films affiliated with Disney took home four honors out of the thirteen nominations they had received.
Disney Pixar’s “Toy Story 3″ won two Oscars, for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song for Randy Newman’s “We Belong Together.”  Tim Burton’s live action “Alice in Wonderland” also triumphed in two categories:  Art Direction and Costume Design.
In two of the four categories won by Disney films, other works by the company were also nominated.  Randy Newman’s song bested Alan Menken and Glenn Slater’s …

Composer and singer Randy Newman took home his fifth Grammy this weekend, as the Recording Academy awarded him the Best Score Soundtrack Album prize for “Toy Story 3″ at Sunday night’s star-studded ceremony.
This marks the fourteenth nomination for Newman, who has been a fixture in the world of film composition for more than twenty years.  Newman’s album beat out another Disney contender, Alice in Wonderland, to take home honors.
Newman was also nominated in the category of Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media, for the “The Princess and the …

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday that perennial Randy Newman will be performing “We Belong Together” from Disney Pixar’s “Toy Story 3″ at this year’s Academy Awards Ceremony.  Also performing songs during the evening with be the team from “Tangled” – composer extraordinaire Alan Menken will accompany Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi (Rapunzel and Flynn, respectively) as they sing Oscar-nominated “I See the Light.”
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be shown live on ABC Television, Sunday, February 27 at 8 p.m. EST.
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