5 best Oscar nominees who didn’t win (and we’re still not over)

2. How Far I’ll Go (Moana)

Musical nostalgia movie La La Land was one of the most hyped movies at the 2017 Oscars. However, it will go down in Academy Award history as one of the most iconic slip-ups, which saw Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read out its name instead of the real winner, Moonlight.

Predictably, La La Land won the Oscar for Best Original Song, but should it have? The music in La La Land was, of course, beautiful, but so too was the lead song from Disney’s Moana, How Far I’ll Go.

Disney has a pretty good track record of winning Best Original Song awards at the Oscars and Moana losing felt like a missed opportunity – a Sliding Doors-esque mishap. In another year, against a less hyped film, How Far I’ll Go might have won. We’d argue it should have anyway.

In fact, we’d go as far to say that it’s better than Frozen’s Let It Go — controversial, we know. How Far I’ll Go is a classic “I want” song, where our heroine Moana explains what it is she longs for and what she will be seeking for the rest of the movie (namely, the sea). Every successful musical has one.

It’s belting, it’s powerful, it’s extremely hard to sing in the shower (though obviously, that doesn’t stop us). It has all the hallmarks of classic Disney, whilst being completely brilliant in its own right.

All of this is, of course, to be expected given that it was written by the genius behind Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton fans everywhere were rooting for him on Oscars night. Had Miranda won, he would have been the youngest person to ever have the sought-after EGOT (an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). There was a lot to root for.

But it wasn’t just a cult of personality. How Far I’ll Go is a banging tune that is sure to go down in Disney song history alongside the best, like Circle of Life, and yes, okay, Let It Go too.