{"id":674737,"date":"2026-09-06T02:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T02:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T02:16:21","slug":"the-debut-has-7-songs-written-by-jesse-eisenberg-getting-oscar-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/674737\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Debut&#8217; Has 7 Songs Written by Jesse Eisenberg, Getting Oscar Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/the-debut\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-debut_1\" data-tag=\"the-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Debut<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jesse-eisenberg\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jesse-eisenberg_1\" data-tag=\"jesse-eisenberg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Eisenberg<\/a>\u2019s third directorial feature, just had its world premiere screening at the Telluride Film Festival. Eisenberg not only directed the A24 film, which stars Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/julianne-moore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julianne-moore_1\" data-tag=\"julianne-moore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julianne Moore<\/a> as a housewife cast in a community theater production, but, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report,\u00a0he also wrote all seven of the original songs featured in it \u2014 accounting for nearly an hour of music\u00a0\u2014 and one of those tunes, \u201cThis City May Have Chewed Me Up (But It Hasn\u2019t Spit Me Out),\u201d which Moore performs in the film, will be the focus of a best original song awards push.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile there remains a possibility that A24 will opt to submit other songs from the film for Oscar consideration, as well \u2014 studios can submit up to three,\u00a0but no more than two can be nominated \u2014 the company regards \u201cThis City May Have Chewed Me Up (But It Hasn\u2019t Spit Me Out)\u201d as its top prospect and priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn addition to Eisenberg, others who have written or co-written songs that are in contention this season include Taylor Swift (\u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d from Toy Story 5), Travis Scott (\u201cWhen I\u2019m Home\u201d from The Odyssey), David Byrne (\u201cLet Me Sell You a Dream\u201d from Musk), Backstreet Boys (\u201cBottle Up\u201d from Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie), SZA (\u201cSave the Day\u201d from Hoppers) and, as ever, Diane Warren (\u201cBy Any Means\u201d from By Any Means).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEmile Mosseri, a best original score Oscar nominee for Minari, composed an original score for The Debut, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Debut will next screen at the Toronto, New York and Zurich film festivals (Moore will receive a lifetime achievement award in Zurich) en route to a limited release on Dec. 11 and a wide release over Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s third directorial feature, just had its world premiere screening at the Telluride Film Festival.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,90098,53841,285114],"class_list":["post-674737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-julianne-moore","tag-the-debut"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117221692945047247","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}