She might have written nine Billboard Hot 100 number ones and had 33 songs reach the Top 10, but songwriter Diane Warren’s trophy cabinet is still missing the one statue she still craves: an Oscar for Best Original Song.
Which isn’t to say that she’s never come close. She’s been nominated a record 17 times, one of which was back in 1998, when she got the nod for writing Aerosmith’s monster hit I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, the big song from that year's silly summer blockbuster, Armageddon.
