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Mary J. Blige; 'Coco' songwriters; Ryan Murphy's big move
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Mary J. Blige; 'Coco' songwriters; Ryan Murphy's big move

Mary J. Blige is the first person to get an Academy Award acting nomination and a best song nod for the same film ("Mudbound”); married songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have an Oscar nomination for “Remember Me” from “Coco”; Ryan Murphy, the producer behind the “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story” franchises, is leaving Fox for Netflix.
US RnB singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige poses as she arrives on May 21, 2017 for the screening of the film 'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. / AFP PHOTO / Anne-Christine POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)
US RnB singer/songwriter Mary J. Blige poses as she arrives on May 21, 2017 for the screening of the film 'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. / AFP PHOTO / Anne-Christine POUJOULAT (Photo credit should read ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Mary J. Blige is the first person to get an Academy Award acting nomination and a best song nod for the same film ("Mudbound”); married songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have an Oscar nomination for “Remember Me” from “Coco”; Ryan Murphy, the producer behind the “American Horror Story” and “American Crime Story” franchises, is leaving Fox for Netflix.

The healing effect of 'Coco's' Oscar-nominated song, 'Remember Me'
Listen • 6:53
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez drew inspiration from Mexican popular songs of the 1930s and '40s. But the key elements came from their lives.
How Mary J. Blige channeled her personal struggles into 'Mudbound'
Listen • 10:34
Best known as a singer, she drew on her family's Southern roots and her own life to deliver an Academy Award-nominated performance.