Submit a Story!

Tuneless Oscars? Academy toughens best-song rules (AP)

 
AP - Academy Awards organizers say they will give out no Oscar for best song next year if none of the tunes is considered good enough. (link)

Tags:

Related Content
Oscar's New Math Sparks High Anxiety
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 6/25/2009 — Academy's decision to count to ten with best picture has the Oscar ninny kingdom in a tizzy.
More stupidity from the Academy
eddieonfilm.blogspot.com 6/27/2009 — By Edward Copeland Fresh from the idiotic news that the Oscars will be expanding from 5 best picture nominees to 10, they've announced some more nonsense. Some are arcane procedural ones that apply to the song category that I couldn't care less ...
Oscars Makeover Continues With Changes for Music Category
aceshowbiz.com 6/27/2009 — Oscars keep making changes in the rules including tighter standards for original song category which makes it possible that there will be no award given in the category.
A Sour Note for Best Song at the Academy Awards
getthebigpicture.net 6/27/2009 — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is changing up the Oscars next year. We already threw a hissy fit over the the decision to expand the Best Picture field from five movies to ten. Although AMPAS won't say it directly, it's to avoid Dark Knight -like snubs, although the ...
Is the Met Ball Deflating? - news
fashionweekdaily.com 6/26/2009 — (NEW YORK) With the recent news of downsizing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art --169 employees, constituting 14 percent of the total staff, left the museum in a mixture of layoffs and voluntary retirement--the buzz about the fate of the Vogue ...
ShowBiz Minute: Hilton, Staub, OscarsLatest News on omg! 6/25/2009
Perez Hilton sues Black Eyed Peas manager; sex tape of 'Real Housewives' star Danielle Staub is blocked by judge, Oscars double best-picture nominees from five to ten. (June 25)
Not All Are Pleased by Wider Red CarpetNYT > Movies 6/26/2009
The decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives animated films and comedies a better chance at an Oscar for best picture. But not all movie companies are pleased.
Tuneless Oscars? Academy toughens best-song rules (AP)Yahoo! News: Gossip/Celebrity News 6/26/2009
AP - Academy Awards organizers say they will give out no Oscar for best song next year if none of the tunes is considered good enough.
Tuneless Oscars? Academy toughens best-song rulesLatest News on omg! 6/26/2009
AP - Academy Awards organizers say they will give out no Oscar for best song next year if none of the tunes is considered good enough.
Not All Are Pleased by Wider Red CarpetNYT > Movies 6/26/2009
The decision by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives animated films and comedies a better chance at an Oscar for best picture. But not all movie companies are pleased.