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...and from the The Hollywood Reporter....Scott Feinberg who cannot figure out who won Best Score in 1985...We all know that John Barry won for Out of Africa...but Scott Feinberg from THR write that...
Ah, well ...
Did Barry win at the 1985 academy awards or the 1986 academy awards which were honouring 1985 films?
How does the accepted lingo go?
Cheers
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Jan 30, 2014 - 6:26 AM
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Mark Ford
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FYI, from Bruce Broughton's FaceBook page:
"What's on my mind? The mess of this afternoon's news and the positive responses of so many friends. If you want to really vent your feelings in a positive way, one that transcends your lovely notes to me, you can let the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences know.
How do I feel? I feel as though I'm the butt of a campaign to discredit a song, the nomination of which caught people by surp...rise. As many of you have noted, the campaigning on the other songs is epic compared to my simple email note. The marketing abilities of the other companies before and after the nomination far outstrip anything that this song was able to benefit from.
We learned this morning that the song will appear on Billboard's charts shortly. Somebody's listening to it. Somebody likes it.
But most of all, I feel sullied, and I feel disappointed not only for me, but for Dennis Spiegel, who wrote a lovely (and although hardly anyone has noticed), truly ecumenical lyric which helped drive the story in the film, and for the unassailable Joni Eareckson, whose vocal on the song breathed real life into it.
So, if you're really upset by this miserable turn of events, I appreciate your notes enormously (I also read Belinda's page), but let the Academy know."
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We learned this morning that the song will appear on Billboard's charts shortly. Somebody's listening to it. Somebody likes it.
I'm on Broughton's side on this, but I'd wager most people who are YouTube-ing or downloading the song are reporters trying to find out what the hell the song even is.
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Jan 30, 2014 - 8:34 AM
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desplatfan1
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One thing no one in the media has mentioned is that the studios/production companies have always had 'unfair advantage' as they just happen to have lists with every AMPAS member's contact information (for every AMPAS branch, I might add), which they use to send out For Your Consideration copies of their films, score and song submissions (how much do you figure they spend on this?), information none here could ever be the position to attain. So Bruce wrote a few emails asking members (most of whom he probably would know anyway as he has been a longtime, respected member of the film/music community) to consider his and Dennis' song. So what? From what I've read he wasn't one of these people who was awake at 5:38 AM(PT) on 12 January to see if his submission got in. He likely had no nomination expectation at all as, he has said in interviews, he wasn't even considered a dark horse in the race. I'm certain he was genuinely surprised by the nom announcement.
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Well said. It's funny how people will treat Broughton s the bad guy, when the studios send FYC promos, makes advanced screenings, spends thousands of dollars on ads. All of that it's practically the studios begging for their films to be nominated. If Broughton would have bribed certain members of the Academy, then it would have being truly shameful. But he didn't.
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If anyone's interested, CBS News (CBS News This Morning) has posted the actual email Bruce sent to the seventy Academy members (probably people he's known for many years).
http://www.cbsnews.com/entertainment/
Anyone here see an interview broadcast?
Note that CBS didn't include the signature line in their reprinting of the email. Just based off what they did reprint, it does seem like bullshit that they rescinded the nomination, seeing as though emails are actually allowed.
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CBN story on the Academy's takesie backsie, with Broughton responding on camera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvigEOGaTTI
I think the nomination should stand. Right now, the lobbying "For Your Consideration" on the nominees is more fierce than anything we see on K Street. Good gravy. Oops, pardon my language.
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This is just SO Academy bureaucracy in action. From the CBS story linked to above:
"The Academy would not talk to us on camera, nor would they specify what rule Broughton violated in his email."
No wonder the Golden Globes are kicking AMPAS's ass. At least the Hollywood Foreign Press is under no pretension that they're anything other than a beauty contest with booze.
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