It was bad enough that just about every eligible tune in the Best Song category was omitted from this year’s Academy Awards nominations. Or that, due to their complicated voting system, the music branch saw fit to nominate only two songs: Rio’s “Real In Rio” and The Muppets’ ”Man or Muppet”.

But now Deadline has learned that neither nominated song will be performed during the Oscar telecast. We understand that both studios — Rio‘s Fox and The Muppets‘ Disney — formally protested the decision but were turned down. ”It seems like a huge missed opportunity to me, and we certainly tried,” one insider just told us.