Paul McCartney attends the 46th Academy Awards

Paul and Linda McCartney attended the 46th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on 2 April 1974.

They were nominated in the Best Music (Song) category for ‘Live And Let Die’, as the song’s composers. They lost out to ‘The Way We Were’ by Marvin Hamlisch and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, which was performed by Barbra Streisand in the 1973 film The Way We Were, starring Streisand and Robert Redford.

The ceremony was held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Los Angeles Music Center. Wings did not perform, but Connie Francis sang ‘Live And Let Die’.

We didn’t really expect to win. Still, it was fun to get nominated and to attend the ceremony. A few people told us it was stupid to go to the Oscars. They said, ‘Why go’? This man’s gonna say you lost and you’re gonna have to sit there and… but that’s not the point to me. It’s not just this thing of winning, winning, winning. There’s also a matter of patience and long-term, and all that. I’m not too heavily into it, I’ve got to win everything. I know I can’t win everything, but I can win a lot. By attending the Oscars, we were just saying, ‘Hello, glad to be here. We respect what you’re doing’.