'The Academy'??? Wow~Wee~Bow~Wow~Wow... Excuuuse Us!

Hopping each other in one giant hay barn orgy bed to see who can take it in deeper is what brings in the nominations & wins.

Who cares?!

Another money making spectacle of hot air phony talk-talk, fashion statements, bleached teeth and bacterium Clostridium botulinum BOTOX!

Morricone should not even attend to receive the consolation prize.

Having released my venom, I'll probably attend anyway.

It's going to be a bumpy night my beloved nominated friends!...

;- )

serifiot, January 23, 2007; 3:50 PM

And jet another year with score nominations of scores i do not know. Well, ahm gett'n used to it....

philkws, January 23, 2007; 5:41 PM

I don't understand why this spoils some people that much. Oscars are Oscars, they are commercial prizes and nothing else, they always were that and always will be that. In the over 70 years that the Academy gives the Award I think we all came to know what we can expect here. Yes many great classics were awarded in the deep past but frankly that reflects the era and its general taste.

My personal favorite score from the nominations is Pan's Labyrinth, followed by The Queen. I Need To Wake Up would by "my" song in this selection.

No I don't really care who wins but I take it as nothing more than a game in which it doesn't really matter that much who really wins, rather than becoming just a frustrated and coarse pessimist.

- Dorian

42zaphod, January 23, 2007; 6:30 PM

My opinion about the Oscars is the same than Dorian. Don't take it seriously or you'll suffer a heart attack. It's only a game, so let's play!

I'd like to see the Spanish composer, Javier Navarrete, picking up the Oscar for PAN'S LABYRINTH, although I have to admit I don't know the music from the first three nominees (BABEL, THE GOOD GERMAN, NOTES ON A SCANDAL). As for THE QUEEN, I think it's a really wonderful score.

By the way, it is strange not to find John Williams among the five nominees... He has taken a deserved break during 2006, but 2007 will be a rather busy year for him.

Greetings,
Angel

angeldibujo, January 23, 2007; 7:06 PM

Hello,

I don't care about the oscar's either. Is their any award given to film composers that is only nominated and voted on by other composers? That would seem to be the only true way to have an award worth winning.

Best Regards,
David Phoenix, AZ.

deg63iami, January 24, 2007; 12:23 AM

David...isn't that how the Oscars are voted?
Actors vote for actors, cinematographers for cinematographers etc? And thus composers for
composers?

whyaduck, January 24, 2007; 1:57 AM

Hello,

I'm not sure, I thought that the nominations were selected by the people that run the academy, then all the people that are members(actors, directors, producers, ect...) can vote in all catagories?

If any of you know how it's done, Please let the rest of us know.


My idea of a perfect vote on film music would be that all film composers would be able to write on a secret ballot thier choice for best score of the year(not themselves). Any film score they thought was the best no matter if it's a major film or a smaller film. without any influence by some academy that is tainted by the politics of the movie business.

Best Regards,
David

deg63iami, January 24, 2007; 3:03 AM

That would be fair, David. But there is a problem about it. Many film composers are not moviegoers. They are only interested in the movie for which they are composing a score. They are musicians and composers, but not all of them are interested in movies. They are related to the film industry only because it is their way to earn money. For many of them it's only a job. Some of the greatest film composers of all time have admitted in any occasion they don't care about the music composed by other colleagues. For example, when Patrick Doyle was asked by a journalist about the similarities between his score for NEEDFUL THINGS and Goldsmith's THE OMEN, he said that he had never listened to that music. In some other interview, I've known that John Williams is not very interested in the work that other composers do for the movies.

Regards,
Angel

angeldibujo, January 24, 2007; 4:59 AM

If I have to go with one, I'm gonna have to say "Pan's Labyrinth". I have not heard "The Queen" yet, but will still go with Javier Navarrete. And WOW, anyone else think that "Dreamgirls" might be a shoe in for the Best Original Song, lol.

drakemarone, January 24, 2007; 8:20 AM