Does Every Best Picture Candidate Have A Perfect, Corresponding Beatles Song?

A Single Man

"Yesterday"

The emotionally bereft George (Colin Firth) can't move on from memories of his suddenly dead lover, Jim (Matthew Goode). Nearly everything prompts a flashback of how good life used to be for the two of them, and now that he's forced to continue without Jim, George is a hollow shell of his former self.

Sample Lyrics:

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be

There's a shadow hanging over me.

Oh, yesterday came suddenly

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