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Wow, that makes me wonder how many past roo artists have been oscar winners? The only one I can think of was last year with T-Bone Burnett.
This is a writer's award so there may be other Bonnaroo artists who have won or been nominated but the following are credited writers that I recognized as Roo artists:
Bob Dylan won for "Things Have Changed" (Wonder Boys) in 2000.
Sting was nominated for "You Will Be My Ain True Love" (Cold Mountain) in 2003. Also nominated for "Until..." (Kate &Leopold) in 2001.
Thom Yorke co-wrote Bjork's "I've Seen It All" (Dancer in the Dark) which was also nominated in 2000.
Aimee Mann was nominated for "Save Me" (Magnolia) in 1999.
Neil Young was nominated for "Philadelphia" (Philadelphia) in 1993.
Willie Nelson was nominated for "On The Road Again" (Honeysuckle Rose) in 1980.
I've heard that Johnny Greenwood would have been the frontrunner for best original score for There Will Be Blood, but they couldn't nominate him on a technicality. Something to do with him releasing some of the songs separately from the soundtrack.
Post by the3penguins on Feb 25, 2008 12:38:21 GMT -5
spindlest said:
I've heard that Johnny Greenwood would have been the frontrunner for best original score for There Will Be Blood, but they couldn't nominate him on a technicality. Something to do with him releasing some of the songs separately from the soundtrack.
I was wondering about that myself. It was so much better than anything else nominated.
Post by papernapkin on Feb 25, 2008 16:55:52 GMT -5
Last night made me think the Academy should limit one song from one movie. Enchanted having three songs nominated? Give me a break! I'm sure there were other great songs out there to nominate.
Vedder should have been nominated for his work on the Into the Wild soundtrack instead of giving Enchanted three noms.
It was also not elligible due to a technicality. I think that the song that they submitted was not used during the movie but over the credits? I'll see if I can find it on EW.com and post later.
Enchanted was cute. I really like Amy Adams but the songs were better in context. (Except that last song -- that was just too . . . Disney!)
It's great for them. I'm really happy someone deserving got it. And they were so humble. Glen Hansard seems like a really cool guy and Marketa Irglova is kind of cute. Definitely a good choice
For some reason a bunch of people I know in Ireland don't really care for Hansard. And as good as the music is, in context of the movie its even better.
Oscar music: Too many rules? Jan 22, 2008, 03:35 PM | by Annie Barrett
Categories: Music, Oscars 2008
Peeps are understandably upset that Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood was excluded from Oscar contention. You can blame a technicality stating that scores cannot be "diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music." For the film, Greenwood composed 35 minutes of original recordings — compared to roughly 46 minutes of pre-existing work which included selections from other aritsts. (Check out Part 5-d of Rule 16 of the Academy's rulebook for tons of details.)
Obviously, there have to be rules (this isn't 'Nam!), but a snub for one of the most original scores in recent memory seems especially harsh. Just this morning, PopWatch reader Kevin called Greenwood's "the best score of the decade" (whoa), and Allibee claimed it comes "close to being an actual character of the film." And TWBB wasn't the only glaring omission. Eddie Vedder's work for Into the Wild couldn't qualify for Original Score because it was too "song-based." Don't you just hate when music sounds like music? What does that even mean?
Speaking of "rules," we're happy Glen Hansard's "Falling Slowly," from Once, got a Best Song nod, but some are skeptical about it because different versions of the song appeared first on The Cost, an album from Hansard's band the Frames, and on Markéta Irglová's solo album The Swell Season. The fact that this even needs to be pointed out, though, is as ridiculous as the exclusions mentioned above. Where do you draw the line when ideally, the real question for determining nominees should be as simple as "How great is the music in this movie?"
