According to Deadline Hollywood, there won’t be any performances from Best Original Song nominees at this year’s Academy Awards.

In the past the nominees performed their songs on stage, often appearing like mini-musicals. This year, executive producers of the broadcast, Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic, have decided that a mixture of audio clips of each nominated song and footage from their respective movies will suffice in order to make the show shorter.

The decision received both praise and criticism from tweeps.

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   Wrygrin Best song nominee performances removed from Oscars telecast. “We’re losing anything that may distract from all the long, boring speeches.”
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   DoseDotCa No best song performances at the Oscars this year. Now when are we supposed to take a bathroom break? http://bit.ly/cDw68u
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   ramblingfilm the Oscars have decided not to have the best song nominees peform. sad, some were actually good
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   thepuffytaco This sucks… and they are replacing it w/ dance. RT @thedailyswarm Oscars Kill Best Original Song Performances… http://bit.ly/bcHufA

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   MrWordsWorth The nominees for best song will not be performed at the Oscars. That’s one more reason to tune in.
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   spinnerpr An f’ing insult. More time for badly written host jokes? RT @thedailyswarm Oscars Kill Best Original Song Performances http://bit.ly/bcHufA
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   Fuzzyfreaker Awww… they’re getting rid of the song performances at the Oscars? I was looking forward to seeing Ryan Bingham sing The Weary Kind.
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   michaeljwrite @Mattgina There’s a lot of meaningless crap during the Oscars, but I usually like the song performances. Even when it was 36 Mafia.

Oscar nominees were announced earlier this month and the awards ceremony will be broadcast on ABC on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. EST. Join us then for our live-blog!

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