Arcade Fire, The Black Keys, Adele, Karen O and Fiona Apple are among the artists shortlisted for Oscars.

Arcade Fireโ€™s track โ€œAbrahamโ€™s Daughterโ€ on The Hunger Games soundtrack is one of the 75 tracks nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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Also receiving nods are Adeleโ€™s โ€œSkyfallโ€ theme for the latest Bond film, Mumford and Sonsโ€™ โ€œLearn Me Rightโ€ from Disney Pixar animation Brave, The Black Keys, who contributed โ€œBaddest Man Aliveโ€ to RZAโ€™s kung-fu movie The Man With The Iron Fists, and Karen O for โ€œStrange Loveโ€ from Tim Burtonโ€™s Frankenweenie and Fiona Appleโ€™s โ€œDull Toolโ€, which will appear in Judd Apatowโ€™s upcoming comedy This Is 40.

Four tracks from Quentin Tarantinoโ€™s forthcoming Western Django Unchained were also nominated, including Rick Rossโ€™ โ€œ100 Black Coffinsโ€ and John Legendโ€™s โ€œFreedomโ€.

Katy Perryโ€™s track โ€˜Wide Awakeโ€™ from her documentary and concert film Part Of Me is also shortlisted, along with Liz Phairโ€™s โ€œDotted Lineโ€ from People Like Us.

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The songs making the final cut for nominations will be announced at a ceremony on January 10 before Seth MacFarlane hosts the 85th Annual Academy Awards on February 24.