Beyond the Alan Menken three-way against a track from "Once" and "we're not sure just yet who wrote it" song from "August Rush," there are plenty of music-related Oscar noms.
Chief among them is Cate Blanchett's arresting portrayal of Bob Dylan - even though her character is not named Bob Dylan - in "I'm Not There."
Elsewhere we have:
ACTOR: Johnny Depp singing in "Sweeney Todd"
ACTRESS: Marion Cotillard portraying the French singer Edith Piaf; Ellen Page's character being the pregnant member of a band in "Juno."
SCORE: Dario Marianelli ("Atonement"); Alberto Iglesias ("Kite Runner"); James Newton Howard (Michael Clayton"); Michael Giacchino ("Ratatouille"); Marco Beltrami ("3:10 to Yuma")
ANIMATED SHORT: "I Met the Walrus" is based on Josh Raskin's meeting with John Lennon when the filmmaker was 14. David Bryant of Godspeed You! Black Emperor supplied music for "Madame Tutli-Putli." At the world premiere in London of "Peter and the Wolf" in September 2006, the Philharmonia Orchestra performed the Prokofiev classic.
LIVE ACTION SHORT: Dan Jones, who scored "The Tonto Woman," has produced orchestral arrangements for Alpha and Jarvis Cocker. Now if we could just confirm that the Allan Muller whose music graces "Tanghi Argentini" is indeed the Belgian singer-composer who recorded "Can't Stop Now," we'll be all set.