Bob Dylan performs at the Grammy Awards in 1998 at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The legendary folk singer received an Oscar nomination Feb. 13 for best original song, 'Things Have Changed' from 'The Wonder Boys.' Associated Press Photo

Music veterans compete for Oscar

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Veteran rockers Bob Dylan, Randy Newman and Sting each collected Oscar nominations Tuesday for best movie song, competing against Icelandic pop singer Bjork and the composers of the theme to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

Bjork, star of the musical "Dancer in the Dark," earned a nomination for the song "I've Seen It All," which was co-written by the movie's director, Lars von Trier, and Sjon Sigurdsson.

"I'm pretty jazzed. It's just the most ecstatic moment," Bjork said. "I did the movie a year-and-a-half ago ... and (awards) are like bonuses and bonuses."

Bob Dylan was nominated for "Things Have Changed" from "Wonder Boys," about a befuddled English professor named Grady Tripp, whose personal life collapses over one frenzied weekend.

Songwriter Randy Newman poses at the piano in his Los Angeles home in 1999. Newman received an Academy Award nomination Feb. 13 for best original song, 'A Fool in Love' from 'Meet the Parents.' Associated Press Photo

Dylan wrote the song after viewing rough footage of the movie, according to "Wonder Boys" director Curtis Hanson.

"The thrill is that this isn't a song stuck in a movie," Hanson said. "What Bob did so brilliantly is he wrote the song Grady Tripp would have written if Grady Tripp were a poet."

"Things Have Changed" was the first song Dylan wrote directly for a movie since "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" in 1973 for director Sam Peckinpah's western "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid."

Randy Newman's nod for "A Fool in Love" — from the comedy "Meet the Parents" — is his 14th Academy Award nomination. However, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter has never taken home an Oscar.