Losing is in the eye of the beholder. Take Diane Warren, for instance. The legendary songwriter has been nominated for an Academy Award 17 times and 17 times she has gone home empty-handed.
It happened again on Sunday night (March 15) when Warren put on her Oscar best and sat in the audience waiting to hear if her latest nominated track, “Dear Me,” from the doc Diane Warren: Relentless, would be the track to finally break the spell. The inspiring song sung by Kesha over the end titles of the film about the songwriter is a kind of pep talk to her younger self that, not for nothing, Warren said is the first tune she’s ever written about herself.
“I’m not gonna lie and say I wouldn’t like to win, especially with this song from this movie. Who knows, right?,” she told Billboard before the Oscars.
Well, it happened again and now Warren has the record for being the person with the most nominations without a win in Oscar history. And she’s totally fine with it.
Speaking to NBCLA, Warren embraced headlines she said dubbed her “the biggest loser like, ever, in the history of the Academy Awards.”
She said, “I’ll take it. That means I’ve been nominated all these times. But, again, if I won one and if I had the choice of winning an Oscar and, you know — and I’ve been nominated all these times — I’m taking the multiple [nominations]. I’m taking the mantle of the biggest loser ever. I’d rather have that than the competitive Oscar.”
Warren — who has been nominated for best original song every year but one since 2014 — did get an honorary Oscar from the Academy in 2022 for a lifetime achievement in music.
This story originally appeared on Billboard
