“Weird Al” Yankovic made a parody of the song called Couch Potato Look, if you had another shot, another opportunity… Thanks for having me Sorry it took me 18 years to get here. When the winner was announced, Eminem was actually at home, asleep with his daughter.Ĭheck out footage of Barbara Streisand presenting the award below. Barbara Streisand announced the award and co-producer Luis Resto accepted it. At the time this was a pretty bold move for the Academy Awards who usually went for tamer choices like Sting or Elton John. In winning, Lose Yourself beat out songs by Paul Simon and U2. Lose Yourself was the first rap song to ever win an Oscar It’s crazy to imagine what it would have been like if someone else had performed the track. After winning, this marked the first time in 14 years that the winner of Best Original Song was not performed at the Oscars. In the end, Lose Yourself didn’t get a performance. Back then every nominated song had a performance, so the Academy Awards even asked Eminem’s longtime manager Paul Rosenberg if they could get someone else to perform it. At the time he thought the song would never win and felt as though the awards wouldn’t “get” him. Back in 2003, the Academy Awards tried to get someone else to perform Lose Yourselfīack in 2003 when Lose Yourself was nominated for an Oscar, Eminem decided not to perform it at the ceremony.
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