Live and Let Die (song) the most popular cover. Both the McCartney and the Guns N' Roses versions were nominated for Grammy Awards. In 2012, McCartney was awarded the Million-Air Award from Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), for more than 4 million performances of the song in the US. Even before Tom Mankiewicz had finished writing the screenplay to "Live and Let Die," producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli invited Paul McCartney to write the theme song. McCartney asked to be sent a copy of Ian Fleming's novel. "I read it and thought it was pretty good. That afternoon I wrote the song and went
Academy Award for Best Original Song always been five nominees, except in 2013 when one was disqualified. The first film to receive multiple nominations was "Fame" in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Dreamgirls", and "Enchanted". "Dreamgirls" and "Enchanted" lost on every nomination: "An Inconvenient Truth" original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from "Dreamgirls", while "Falling Slowly" from "Once" defeated all three of "Enchanted"s nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs