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The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences issued this statement just now regarding the Original Score of Disney’s The Princess And The Frog amid voter consternation:
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After nominations ballots and reminder lists for the Original Score category were mailed to members of the Academy’s Music Branch (on December 28), questions were raised regarding the eligibility of the score of “The Princess and the Frog.”
On Monday, January 11, the Music Branch Executive Committee met to discuss the score’s status. Based on the committee’s interpretation of the rules, it was determined that the film is not eligible in the score category, though four songs from the movie remain eligible for consideration.
The relevant language is contained in Rule 16, Section II, Paragraph E: “…scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible”.
The tabulators at PricewaterhouseCoopers have been instructed to disregard any votes cast for the Original Score of “The Princess and the Frog.” The movie remains eligible in all other categories for which it qualified.
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What the fuck? Everything was written by Randy Newman!
Why does no one care about or respect our award shows anymore? Why do the ratings keep dropping? Don’t they know how important we are?
Yeah. Hint, Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. HINT.
Give me a break … Randy Newman is a living legend, and this is clearly a witch hunt … not the first in LA.
Um, when was that language written? Because, remember when “The Full Monty” won best score even though practically the entire soundtrack was 70s disco with only a few minutes of new compositions?
Full Monty won in 1997 in the Original Score (Musical or Comedy) category, a category Princess and the Frog would be eligible for if the award existed nowadays, which it doesn’t. The above language you refer to may be part of the rules for Original Score (Drama) when that category was created in 1995, and then left there when the Musical/Comedy category was discontinued in 1999.
Personally I think they should bring back the Musical/Comedy category, but broaden it to also include Song Scores like in Wild Things or Crazy Heart, and also Adapted Scores included in film versions of stage musicals.