Thursday
13Nov2008
'Dark Knight' Score Disqualified from Oscars, Plus Three DVD Clips
Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 10:37AM
A little more
Dark Knight news for you, as the biggest movie
of the year tries to bolster its chances for Academy Awards. But we now know it
won't win an Oscar for Best Original Score, because
AMPAS has
disqualified it from contention.
Oh sure, the Academy's rules for screenplays seems pretty lax (Charlie Kaufman's non-existent twin has a nomination), but if it's movie music, that's a whole different ballgame. At issue in this case is the submission of the musical cue sheet to the Academy, which lists five composers. That same cue sheet is used for royalties submissions as a way to get each credited composer paid. Despite affidavits from the other artists - music editor Alex Gibson, ambient music designer Mel Wesson and composer Lorne Balfeand - as well as other supporting evidence that the overwhelming majority of the score was written by Howard and Zimmer, the Academy just wasn't sure what to do, debated it for a couple of days, and ruled that it's not eligible.
Does that set up a long road ahead for the rest of the film's nominees? I doubt it, because again, the Academy slaves over the music nominations for some reason, and there always seems to be some issue every year or two in either the score or song categories.
Elsewhere, we've got a few clips from the upcoming Dark Knight DVD, courtesy of Movie Web. They're the behind-the-scenes type, featuring chats with Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman as they discuss the roles of Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, and The Joker in the Nolanized Gotham City.
Reader Comments (2)
In the "Oh Yeah I've been meaning to see that" category, thanks for reminding me about Once. I just added it to my Netflix queue!
By the way, I think I just saw Jason Lee wandering around at Tempe Marketplace. I think he was spending some of that Alvin and The Chipmunks 2 money...
Either that or getting back to his Mallrats roots...
Nothing to do with musical scores, though I'm sure that the score for that gem will be nominated in '09. If the AMPAS doesn't disqualify it from competition, that is. Which of course, they should do on, you know, principle.
Also remember when LOTR2 was disqualified from Best Original Score for some reason (I forget why, and I don't want to look it up right now), because of some new rule they made, and everyone got all mad, so they repealed the rule in the future. But all in all it was rather stupid. At least, though, LOTR2 still got nominated for Best Picture, plus 6 other awards. So don't take this as a bad omen.