Tegan and Sara to perform ‘Everything Is Awesome’ with The Lonely Island at Oscars

Best Song nominee is taken from 'The Lego Movie'

Tegan and Sara will perform with The Lonely Island at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.

They two acts will perform their song ‘Everything is Awesome’ from The Lego Movie, which is nominated for Best Song at the awards. The Lonely Island are the former-SNL comedians turned spoof rappers Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone.

‘Everything is Awesome’ faces competition from Selma song ‘Glory’ ‘Grateful’ from Beyond the Lights, ‘I’m Not Gonna Miss You’ from Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me and ‘Lost Stars’ from Begin Again this this year’s Oscars. Rita Ora will be among the other performers on the night while John Legend and Common will also perform ‘Glory’.

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The Lego Movie, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, had been expected to receive a nomination in the Animated Feature category – but was frozen out of the category by How to Train Your Dragon 2, Big Hero 6, The Boxtrolls, Song of the Sea and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya.

Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel are the leading contenders for this year’s Academy Awards after racking up nine nominations each. Check out the full list of nominations here.

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