At the THR X TikTok Awards Weekend Party, Diane Warren tells THR on the carpet how excited she gets about the Oscars, saying she stays up "all night" waiting for the nominations to come out. Plus, she dishes on performing with Sofia Carson at the ceremony last year and how nerve-racking that was for her.
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00:00 Is this just old hat for you at this point? Another Oscars?
00:02 No, it's never old hat. It's always new hat. I love it.
00:06 I'm honestly grateful just to be a part of it.
00:09 It's the 15th time and it could be my first time.
00:12 I mean, I stay up all night waiting for the nominations. I just am
00:16 hearing my song, the name of my song. I already won.
00:19 When you learned that this song from Flamin' Hot was nominated,
00:23 your 15th nomination, what was your reaction?
00:26 Jump up and down, screaming. Yeah.
00:30 What can we expect from the performance on Sunday?
00:33 I was at the rehearsal today. It's going to be amazing. It's going to be amazing.
00:36 Are you going to be on stage at all? No, not this.
00:38 I was last year with Sophia Carson and that was, that was, I was so nervous.
00:43 She wasn't nervous last year. We're standing about to go on.
00:46 I go, are you nervous? She goes, no. I go, well, I'm nervous enough for the two of us
00:49 and everybody else here that's nervous, you know.
00:53 So Becky's going to kill it.
00:55 I was going to ask, which do you like better, being a part of the performance
00:58 or getting to sit in the audience and watch someone perform this creation of yours?
01:02 I think I'd rather be in the audience. It's less nerve wracking.
01:05 You know, it's like I'm watching and I'm not going, oh my God,
01:08 what if I mess up the chord? You know, what if I fuck it all up?
01:12 You know, we're not live on anywhere, right?
01:14 You know, which is easy for me to fuck things up.
01:16 I'm not a great musician.
01:19 I always love your fashion. Do you know what you're wearing on Sunday?
01:22 Do you have it picked out?
01:23 This, someone made me a suit and I got, I have to, I don't know his name,
01:28 but that day I will know his name so I can let people know.
01:31 It's the first time I've ever had someone make me an outfit for the Oscars.
01:35 That feels like good luck, good mojo.
01:38 It could be. It's going to be, I'm going to look, the suit's going to look good.
01:42 It's really cool. It's very, it's very on brand for this.
01:47 Let's put it that way.
01:48 I love that. We can't wait to see it.
01:49 Of course, there were so many amazing movies this year.
01:52 When it comes to Best Picture on Sunday, who are you rooting for?
01:56 I don't want to say because I know different people that made different movies.
01:59 So if I say, I had my favorites.
02:02 I guess the question is then, what's one film you saw this year that you especially loved?
02:06 Doesn't have to be your favorite.
02:08 I love Flamin' Hot. I did.
02:11 And I wish, honestly, you know what? I wish it was in theaters.
02:14 It was in theaters long enough to be eligible, but that's a theater movie because,
02:18 you know, especially the Latin audience doesn't have a lot of, you know, great movies.
02:22 And you would have cheered in the theaters.
02:24 You know, it's always best to, you know, see it in a theater, not in your house.
02:29 I mean, some movies are made better for that,
02:31 but one of the ones that you could just, it's a communal experience.
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