Despite hopes for more SPECTRE received a single Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
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Sam Smith performed the SPECTRE theme song, Writing’s on the Wall, which he co-wrote with Jimmy Napes. The pair recently picked up a Golden Globe for the song.
Smith and SPECTRE are up against the following for the award:
- Earned It by The Weeknd (Fifty Shades of Grey)
- Simple Song #3 by La Giovinezza (Youth)
- Till It Happens to You by Lady Gaga (The Hunting Ground)
- Manta Ray by J Ralph and Antony Hegarty (Racing Extinction)