The songs shortlisted for the Best Song category at the Oscars this year won't be performed at the movie industry's big awards bash, as they would traditionally have been. According to Deadline Hollywood, the musical segment is being axed from awards show as part of mission to cut both running time and costs of the Oscar's TV broadcast.

As previously reported, Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas, Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, Maury Yeston and Randy Newman are all nominated for the Best Song Oscar, the latter twice. Some wonder if the lack of a big pop or rock name with a global profile on that shortlist is partly behind the decision to cut the bit where nominees get on stage and sing for the cameras.