Academy Award
The song was performed in the film by stars Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. Three 6 Mafia included their own version of the song, with vocalist Paula Campbell, on a 2006 special edition reissue of their platinum album Most Known Unknown.
At the 78th Academy Awards, Three 6 Mafia, along with Coleman, and Henson, performed the song shortly before it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Howard did not wish to perform at the ceremony, and since two of the song's writers are in Three 6 Mafia, they were given the opportunity to perform it. In the live performance, the word "bitches" was replaced by "witches" in the chorus. Three 6 Mafia became the first hip hop group to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the first hip hop artists to perform at the ceremony. It was the second hip hop song to win an Oscar, after Eminem's "Lose Yourself", from the film 8 Mile (2002).
This song became the third in six years to win the Oscar without a Golden Globe Award nomination. The others were "If I Didn't Have You" from Monsters, Inc. (2001) and "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). In subsequent years, "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth, "Falling Slowly" from Once, "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, and "Man or Muppet" from The Muppets have each won Best Original Song at the Oscars, but were not nominated for a Golden Globe.
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