Can Idina bring 'Beowulf' an Oscar?

Nomination polls close for this year's Academy Awards on Saturday (Jan. 12), and sneaking in with a showcase just before deadline is actress/singer Idina Menzel.

The Broadway star had a role in this season's "Enchanted," and also performed the end-credit cut from fantasy film "Beowulf," a song eligible for an Oscar. Thursday's invite-only event in Los Angeles will be largely to promote her upcoming album on Warner Bros., "I Stand," but you can bet invites are going out those in the film industry as well.

This song was taken to task on this blog over here, but give it a whirl if you missed the film. While the song comes with Oscar cred -- it was written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silverstri, who received a nomination for the work on "The Polar Express" -- it's all production and no heart, and I'm betting it doesn't get a nomination.