Ed Ineligible!??!

BernardWrangle
BernardWrangle Posts: 10
edited January 2008 in The Porch
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/01/22/jonny-greenwood-disqualified-from-oscar-race-rolling-stones-may-sell-back-catalogue-snoop-collaborating-with-beckham-and-more/

Jonny Greenwood’s score for There Will Be Blood was shut out of Oscar consideration after the Academy ruled it fell under the heading of “scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other pre-existing music,” Variety reports. Into the Wild was also ruled ineligible due to “predominant use of songs.” Check back later today for more on the Oscar nominations.
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  • LeatherMosquitoMan
    LeatherMosquitoMan Posts: 4,034
    This is bullshit. It's bullshit. Predominant use of songs??
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  • Marie Curie
    Marie Curie Posts: 1,250
    “predominant use of songs” ?? That makes no sense!
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  • tdub
    tdub Posts: 226
    I'm not sure what this means. I don't think it means anything. That's just how I feel.

    All of a sudden Ed's take on award presentations makes sense, huh?
  • dontgimmenolip
    dontgimmenolip Posts: 198
    It means the Oscar people have their heads up their asses, and further enforces the notion that awards shows are nothing but boring tripe. Fuck the Oscars.

    It's the same every year - some asshole host does hack, vaudeville jokes. at least 85% of the awards go to movies the general public deems undeserving. Some fashion show dope dissects the evening wear, and every one complains the next day.

    I'd rather watch cartoons.
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  • jordn6971
    jordn6971 Posts: 675
    what would scores be filled with, if not songs?
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  • dunkman
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    BernardWrangle wrote:
    Into the Wild was also ruled ineligible due to “predominant use of songs.”


    personally i'd take great pride in that.. i'd also throw dead hamsters at the person who made that decision.. but what a great reason not to be nominated for an Arselick Award... predominant use of songs... its the funniest thing i've read on here since 2.43pm
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  • dontgimmenolip
    dontgimmenolip Posts: 198
    jordn6971 wrote:
    what would scores be filled with, if not songs?

    Violin squalls, cello farts, honking brass. All bits arranged into a chord structure with a melody - almost like a song, but not quite. I think they call them "pieces".
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    why is it such a big deal that ed's solo work get an oscar? there's been plenty of validation for it since it was released. its an awesome collection of work and i'm just guessing here that he didn't release it to get a bunch of awards. that's just my two cents.
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I don't understand this at all.
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  • Flagg
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    dunkman wrote:
    personally i'd take great pride in that.. i'd also throw dead hamsters at the person who made that decision.. but what a great reason not to be nominated for an Arselick Award... predominant use of songs... its the funniest thing i've read on here since 2.43pm


    Yeah, they should use that phrase to advertise the record. It has a "Predominant Use of Songs!"
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  • Cropduster84
    Cropduster84 Posts: 1,283
    Oscars are dull anyway.....and always make bad decisions......


    Dances With Wolves? Please.....


    and that dude who presents it is a prick.....is Billy Crystal his name?
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  • guitar_davey
    guitar_davey Posts: 111
    LeatherMosquitoMan wrote:
    This is bullshit. It's bullshit. Predominant use of songs??

    I don't think Into the Wild was excluded literally because of "predominant use of songs." I think Rolling Stone was making a joke to illustrate how flawed the nomination process is.

    That's my interpretation.

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  • dontgimmenolip
    dontgimmenolip Posts: 198
    2-feign-reluctance wrote:
    why is it such a big deal that ed's solo work get an oscar? there's been plenty of validation for it since it was released. its an awesome collection of work and i'm just guessing here that he didn't release it to get a bunch of awards. that's just my two cents.

    I'm not so much bothered by Ed not getting an Oscar nod as I am about the reasons for disqualification for both, Into the Wild, and Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score. The people in charge of nominations have some real mind-fuck requirements.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Cropduster84 wrote:
    Oscars are dull anyway.....and always make bad decisions......


    Dances With Wolves? Please.....


    and that dude who presents it is a prick.....is Billy Crystal his name?

    billy crystal is a prick? ha! that's fucking funny! i've never heard anyone say anything negative about that guy.
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  • BoSoxFan11
    BoSoxFan11 Posts: 17
    I just issued a complaint on the oscars website. i don't know if will do any good but if we flood their e-mail with complaints it will at least make someone's day miserable over there.

    I think they just have something against Eddie Vedder no nomination for Big Fish or Singles and now nothing for Into the Wild...But Enchanted got 3 nods this is kind of like Jethro Tull winning the best Heavy metal album over Metallica.
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    dontgimmenolip wrote:
    I'm not so much bothered by Ed not getting an Oscar nod as I am about the reasons for disqualification for both, Into the Wild, and Jonny Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score. The people in charge of nominations have some real mind-fuck requirements.


    agreed. it doesn't fit into their little box so you don't get acknowledged.
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  • dontgimmenolip
    dontgimmenolip Posts: 198
    Cropduster84 wrote:
    and that dude who presents it is a prick.....is Billy Crystal his name?

    Not this year. This time around, the prick is some douchebag named...



    Jon Stewart.
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  • Cropduster84
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    2-feign-reluctance wrote:
    billy crystal is a prick? ha! that's fucking funny! i've never heard anyone say anything negative about that guy.

    Cant stand him, he's just so embarrasing to watch.....maybe its because Im english, just dont get that sort of hyperactivity, grates on me.....
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  • LONGRD
    LONGRD Posts: 6,036
    The Oscars have always had some serious weird ass rules.
    For example: Best Foreign Language film. Not only does the film have to be non-English but it has to be PRODUCED* outside the U.S. as well.

    *Meaning that even if an American production company help financed the film outside the States, it will be ineligible as well.
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  • Jwmcc
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    Cropduster84 wrote:
    Cant stand him, he's just so embarrasing to watch.....maybe its because Im english, just dont get that sort of hyperactivity, grates on me.....


    Not to mention that there is almost no baseball/Yankee related documentary without his presense in it. You would think he's the only man left alive that saw Mickey Mantle play.

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