New Trailer for ‘La La Land’ Features Original Song “Audition”

A new trailer for Damien Chazelle’s highly anticipated follow-up to Whiplash, La La Land, is here and with it a glimpse at another of the modern-day musical’s original songs. Like the first teaser, which gave us Ryan Gosling’s piano tinkling and his vocals on “City of Stars,” the new teaser gives us Emma Stone singing “Audition,” as she shrugs and shuffles her way through Hollywood casting calls. Quite cleverly, the title credits are also flipped from the first teaser, with Stone receiving first credit now. The tone of the new teaser still retains the wonderful, dream-like quality of the first and gives us even more of the film’s gorgeous production design, despite still not showing us a single line of dialogue.

The film, which is set to hit the Venice, Toronto and Telluride film festivals this fall is quietly positioning itself to be not just a major Oscar contender but possibly for the win, and in doing so would break the 11-year curse of the December release. Check out where La La Land currently sits in the Best Picture race according to AwardsWatch’s Gold Rush Gang.

Here is the new single cover/poster art for “Audition” and the new teaser trailer below:

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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