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Mar 15, 2026 8:12pm PT Diane Warren Vows ‘I’ll Be Back’ at Oscars, While Boasting ‘I Set a New Record Tonight!’ — as Most Nominated Person to Not Win a Competitive Oscar By Chris Willman Plus Icon Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic ChrisWillman Latest Barbra Streisand Honors Robert Redford With Stirring ‘The Way We Were’ Performance at Oscars 2 hours ago ‘We Are the Shaggs’ SXSW Film Review: The World’s Most Polarizing Band Gets Its Due in Ken Kwapis’ Sweet Salute to Outsider Rock 6 hours ago What’s Different at SXSW Music 2026: Festival Chiefs on Having a New Base Beyond the Convention Center, Earlier Set Times, Global Genre Shifts and Celebrating a 40th Anniversary 3 days ago See All Gilbert Flores/Penske Media Diane Warren is taking her latest Oscar loss in stride, posting on social media after the ceremony: “Well at least I’m consistent! And I set a new record tonite!! But U know me, I will be back if you’ll have me!!!” Surely they will — Warren has not not picked up a nomination for best original song since 2016, a streak that practically marks her as a shoo-in for another nod next year. In the meantime, she has now gotten a nod in that category 17 total times without a win, which now gives her the all-time record for the most nominated person to not yet have a competitive Oscar. Related Stories 'Melania' Sets Amazon Prime Video Streaming Release Date 'Life Is Strange' TV Series Casts Maisy Stella, Tatum Grace Hopkins as Chloe and Max (EXCLUSIVE) Of course, Warren is far from altogether Oscar-less, having picked up an honorary Academy Award at the Governors Award in 2022, although that has not dampened her enthusiasm to win a competitive trophy… or lessened the Academy’s eagerness to put her in a near-miss position year after year. Popular on Variety At least she couldn’t call it unexpected this year, as the chart-topping pop smash “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” was pegged by every prognosticator to walk away with the prize. Warren was up for “Dear Me,” a ballad she wrote for “Diane Warren: Relentless,” a documentary about her own life, sung by Kesha. Asked recently by the New York Times if winning the honorary Oscar made up for not getting a standard Academy Award, Warren said, “You know, I still haven’t won the competitive one. And I’m a competitive person. It’s amazing to have the honorary Oscar — that’s harder to get than the competitive. I don’t take that for granted. But, yeah, I still want to win. My honorary Oscar gets really lonely. He wants a friend. He hangs out with Rabbit, my cat, but he prefers to have an Oscar buddy.” She noted that, coming into the ceremony, she was tied with a pal for the most nominations and losses without a win. “It’s not validation,” she told the Times. “It would just be fun. And now I just keep beating my own record, I guess. Right now, I’m tied with my friend Greg Russell; we both have lost 16 times. But I’ve never taken awards as validation. The work is validation. When people love the songs, that’s validation. Who doesn’t want to win, right? But you can’t live and die by that because it’s out of your control. What’s in my control is to do the best work I can.” The friend who was previously tied with her, Greg P. Russell, is a 16-times-nominated sound mixer who now has to settle for second place in this unique competition. Warren recognized that, entering the final stretch, “I know I’m the underdog, for sure — or undercat. Can I be an undercat? I’m a cat person. They’re fast and they’ve got claws.” Jump to Comments Finneas O’Connell to Score ‘Beef’ Season 2 Netflix Acquires AI Filmmaking Start-Up Founded by Ben Affleck, Who Will Serve as Adviser to Streamer Netflix Says Paramount Has Paid $2.8 Billion Breakup Fee for Warner Bros. Discovery Deal ‘Manas’ Screenwriter Camila Agustini and Elton de Almeida to Co-Pen Brazilian Drama ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ (EXCLUSIVE) Warner Bros. Discovery Declares New Paramount Bid a ‘Superior Proposal’; Netflix Has Four Business Days to Match ‘KPop Demon Hunters 2’ Confirmed by Netflix and Sony: ‘This Is Only the Beginning’ JavaScript is required to load the comments. Loading comments...