Diane Warren is determined to return to Oscar After missing the prize for the best original song at the 2025 ceremony.
The composer, who went home empty -handed on Sunday night, losing the prize for the best original song for the 16th time, He told Variety She would “come back” in an interview at the Oscar Vanity Fair party on Sunday night.
“I am happy to be nominated,” Warren told Variety in the event, adding: “I am consistent as F —“.
“It’s what it is,” the composer continued. “I’m happy to be here.”
Warren was nominated for his original song “The Journey” from the movie “The Six Triple Eight”. Finally, “The Evil” of “Emilia Pérez” took home the prize in the category.
Warren was first nominated for an Oscar in 1987 for his song “Nothing Gon Ghel Gelon Stop Us Now” of the movie “Mannequin”. She received a Oscar Honorary In 2022.
The composer shared a message of resilience on Sunday night, insinuating that he hopes to be back at Future Academy Awards for his work.
Diane Warren attends the 97th annual Oscar at the Dolby Theater, on March 2, 2025, in Hollywood, California.
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“I will return. I am the Oscar Terminator,” he joked, referring to the classic phrase of the 1984 film “The Terminator.”
“I will come back,” he reiterated. “I can’t get rid of me.”
Warren also said that he would have liked to hear the performances of the best nominated for the original song, a tradition that the Oscars decided not to repeat this year.
“It would have been great to hear the songs acted as they have always done,” Warren said. “I think many people were not happy with that.”
Before the show, Warren expressed a Indie cable feelingDeclating: “That is always a real culminating point, especially when you have a nominated song. I have been very lucky. I think that Lady Gaga singing my song ‘Til It Ocves You,’ That performance was only electric.”
He added that a song like “The Journey” “really resonates at this time. People are using that song everywhere for many different things … it would have been pleasant, but I am happy to be here.”
Warren said the loss does not slow down and that tomorrow “he would work again.”
“I was happy to be here,” he told Variety. “I thought this time I had a chance, but it wasn’t, but I’m still here.”
“The Journey” was sung by the winner of the Academy Award
After discovering his nomination in January, Warren He told “Good Morning America” That the song is “special” for her.
“I think for me [it is] One of my best songs, “he said at that time.
