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The Oscars Bung Up “Best Original Song” Category

February 20th, 2009

Last year the Oscars got it right just nominating Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova for Best Original Song Written For A Motion Picture; the fact that their song Falling Slowly from the movie Once actually won…still gives me chills thinking about it.

This year, however, the Oscars have totally messed it up. Aside from the fact that Bruce Springsteen‘s tune The Wrestler just might be one of the best songs he has ever written, IT WON THE GOLDEN GLOBE FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG!! I’m not quite sure how, in a category with only three nominees, the Golden Globe winning song this year is not even nominated. Why not make it the fourth nominee?!

The fact that Peter Gabriel has decided not to perform his nominated song Down to Earth from Wall-E in protest of only being allowed to perform 60 seconds of it on the broadcast just might be a karma backhand from the musical gods for one of the biggest music Oscar goofs EVER.

End rant.

=matt

Posted on Friday, February 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm by and is filed under Celebrities & Pop Culture.

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