Oscar nominations were announced recently and it looks like a pretty solid, deserving list. I'm particularly happy about Laura Linney in The Savages and Viggo Mortensen. And since when do movies like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood become best picture favorites? It's nice to see the establishment embrace difficult, edgy fare. However, a scroll down toward the middle of the list erases my dream (if there is even a ceremony this year) of seeing Eddie Vedder and Jonny Greenwood at the Oscars.
There Will Be Blood is truly enhanced by its unpredictable, harsh/lovely Jonny Greenwood score which was, apparently, disqualified due to a rule about percentage of original music. This rule, however, was broken by last year's (deserving) winner, Babel. So, the enforcement of the rule seems to be an anti-rockist way to eliminate competition from a truly original score.
More glaring is no nomination for Eddie Vedder's songs in Into the Wild. "Guaranteed" and especially "Society" served the film well and would have been excellent, deserving choices in a category that has rewarded Springsteen and Dylan, but they were beat out by three songs from Enchanted. Apart from the song from Once, it's a pretty bland batch of songs from the group that recently awarded Eminem and Three 6 Mafia.
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