This morning, seven-time Academy Award nominee Diane Warren became eight-time Oscar nominee Diane Warren thanks to her collaboration with Lady Gaga on "Til It Happens to You," a song they co-wrote for The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses.
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“When I called her and played her the song, it was more of a somber ballad, but she really made it epic,” Warren says of the best original song nominee. “She made it hers and took it to another level by arranging the shit out of it and singing the shit out of it.” Warren wanted the song to “give voice” to the rape survivors in the film, but adds, “I also [wrote] a song that fits outside of the movie, that can be about dealing with [any] difficult situation from bullying to losing somebody to losing your job.”
