Oscar Snubs Johnny Greenwood’s ‘There Will Be Blood Score’?? Not Quite
Some people may have noticed a few glaring omissions in this years list of nominees for the 2008 Academy Awards. For myself, first and foremost would be the MASSIVELY short sited nominees for Best Documentary Feature. 3 out of 5 Iraq films? Lame. You can read more about that over at The Documentary Blog. The second glaring omission for me was the lack of support for Johnny Greenwood’s phenomenal score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘There Will Be Blood’, a film which has received its fair share of honours otherwise. What’s the deal? Was it simply too weird for the academy voters? Well according to the folks over at Pitchfork, it wasn’t really a snub at all. (well, I guess it depends on your point of view) As it turns out, part of Greenwood’s original score was not composed specifically for the film. A piece titled ‘Popcorn Superhet Receiver’ was a BBC commissioned piece which went on to win the listeners award at BBC Radio 3’s British Composer Awards. So technically, I guess this disqualifies Greenwood’s score. This makes sense to a degree, but what about all of the other pieces that WERE created specifically for the film? Would disqualify a Danny Elfman score because there’s an Oingo Boingo song in the movie? Or a Mark Mothersbaugh score if there’s a Devo song in the film? Seems a little weird to me.
Comments (5)
The academy isn’t as stupid as I thought. Finally Norbit gets its recognition. I’m so happy it was nominiated for an academy award!
Posted by dario on January 22nd, 2008I actually think it’s more crazy that they somehow got Rick Baker personally to do the make-up for Norbit. But since he did it, I’m sure it is absolutely amazing, because he is one of the best.
Posted by Henrik on January 22nd, 2008theres a problem i just noticed
the song from “Once”, as awesome as it is, is not an original song. it was originally recorded by Hansard’s full time band, the Frames, before being adapted for the movie.
Posted by Goon on January 22nd, 2008That’s too bad. I haven’t seen the film (lieving in rural northern California we haven’t got the picture yet) but the Greenwood score is certainly something I’m looking forward to hearing.
Posted by Ian on January 23rd, 2008That is a real bummer about Greenwood. I believe the films owes as much of its success to Johnny as to any other person involved in its creation. As much as a score contributes to any movie…I have rarely seen one that plays such a part in the actual creation and is such a character in itself.
Posted by Lakshmi on January 27th, 2008Leave a Reply