Oscar Songs
I just looked at the Academy's list of eligible songs for this Oscar season. I realized that the best song on the list has no chance of ever being nominated--"The Story," by Norah Jones, from Wong Kar-Wai's My Blueberry Nights, which should also get a cinematography nod but won't because the Academy votes for what they see in a film, not how they see it, and the masterful Technicolor photography here is in a film that came out in January and that no one saw.
At least it doesn't seem as huge an omission as last year, when Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" from Sean Penn's Into the Wild was left off the nomination list in favor of three forgettable songs from Enchanted.
At least it doesn't seem as huge an omission as last year, when Eddie Vedder's "Guaranteed" from Sean Penn's Into the Wild was left off the nomination list in favor of three forgettable songs from Enchanted.
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