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2015 Oscar Nominations: The 10 Biggest Snubs for Best Original Song, , Up for the Best Original Song award this year: “Everything is Awesome” from The Lego Movie; “Glory” from Selma (the 2015 Golden Globe winner); “Grateful” from Beyond the Lights; “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me; and “Lost Stars” from Begin Again.

Each of these songs has a chance to follow “Let It Go,” “Jai Ho,” “Up Where We Belong,” “The Way We Were” and “Man or Muppet” as songs immortalized as Oscar winners.

As the old cliche goes, it’s an honor just to be nominated. But we’ll extend that cliche just a bit further, and point out that some cool songs from movies in years past that didn’t even get that far.

The following tunes didn’t even get a nomination for an Oscar: Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars‘ “Safe and Sound” (from the first Hunger Games), Bruce Springsteen‘s “The Wrestler” (from The Wrestler), Eddie Vedder‘s “Guaranteed” from Into the Wild, Pearl Jam‘s “Man of the Hour” (written by Vedder) from Big Fish, Madonna‘s “Die Another Day” (co-written by Madge and Mirwais) from the James Bond film of the same name, Madonna’s “Beautiful Stranger” (Madge and William Orbit) from Austin Powers:

The Spy Who Shagged Me, U2‘s “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” from Batman Forever and even Eric Clapton‘s Tears In Heaven” (by Clapton and Will Jennings) from Rush, not to mention John C. Reilly’s “Walk Hard” from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

Here, then, is a list of songs that join that storied company by not even making it to  Oscar voters’ ballots this year.