"The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart won Best Original Song Oscar Winner 2010, on March 7, 2010, at the 82nd annual Academy Awards show. The theme song, featured on the Crazy Hart soundtrack, was performed by singer Ryan Bingham. It was written by Bingham and T Bone Burnett.

The Best Original Score, is an award given out annually at the Academy Awards. Best original score is for someone who writes a song for one specific movie. The Academy awards group vote on who they though delivered the greatest song for the previous year in a certain movie.

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominees were: The Weary Kind, from the movie Crazy Heart, written by T Bone Burnett, and Ryan Bingham, Take it All, from the movie 9, written by Maury Yeston, Loin de Paname, from 'Paris 36, written by Frank Thimas, and music by Reinhardt Wagner, Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog written by Randy Newman, and Almost There from The Princess and the Frog also written by Randy Newman.

The 2010 Oscar for Best Original Song went to "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart.

The 81st annual Academy Awards Best Original Song nominees from 2009 were: Wall-E, by Thomas Newman, Slumdog Millionaire, written by A.R. Raham, Milk written by Danny Elfman, Defiance, written by James Newton Howard, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, written by Alexandre Desplat. A.R. Rahman took home this award for his movie Slumdog Millionaire.