It looks like Oscar is getting a little sick of hearing music from the same source. It appears that the rules for original song nomination will be changing, we get wind of this news from the singing caves of Yahoo:
Last time around, the Oscar songs category was three times “Enchanted” — a trick that may never be repeated.
The number of original songs that can be nominated from a single movie will now be limited to two, according to a rule change by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The academy’s governors approved the change late Tuesday. Last year, Disney’s “Enchanted” had three titles in contention: “Happy Working Song,” “So Close” and “That’s How You Know.” The winner of best original song: “Falling Slowly,” from “Once.”
On one hand, I think this makes sense. You don’t want to see all the songs from one film when you have so many that could be up for consideration. The last Oscars seemed like a commercial for Enchanted with all the music that was playing from the film. I like this rule, and think that two songs may be a fair enough number of songs.
…..on the other hand. It’ s an awards show and the winners should always win, shouldn’t they? If the best songs are all from one film, is it fair to cap it off at two just so others can be nominated too? There is no limit on how many awards a film can win or restrictions on an individual’s ability to win multiple awards, why start here?
International friends, what are your thoughts. Do you think the 2 song per film cap is fair, or should they let the best songs rise to the top always and forever?
It think it should be the best nominees period. If that means 5 songs from the same movie then so be it. I do think they need to look at their criteria for songs and soundtracks though. Last awards there was some outstanding music by Eddie Vedder (Into the Wild) and Johnny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood) that was ruled ineligible. The excuse given was that the “the score was too song based”. Seems like something they just pulled out of their asses.
I agree with Scott, limit the songs being broadcast to one per movie so the show doesn’t turn into a commercial.
Personally, I don’t understand why someone would want to have more than one song from a movie nominated, it will split your votes and you’ll lose every time. Think about it, those three Enchanted songs together probably received waaaay more votes than the winning song, but between them they needed at least three times as many votes as the next closest nominee for one of them to win.
That’s a good move, but why not just ONE? Two is still too much, IMO. (no pun intended)
I’d actually rather see a one song limit.
On that same note I’d also like to see a one nomination limit for the actors awards as well. The same actor getting nominated twice in the same category just seems like cheating… especially if he/she wins.
I don’t really care how many songs from any one movie are nominated, but it was a little tiresom having to listen to three songs from Enchanted on the telecast of the ceremony. Perhaps there should not be a limit on the number of nominations a film can have in this category, but a one-song limit of the number of performances a single movie gets at the ceremony?
How about not having a song-catergory at all
That is a hard one. Some films have a lot of goods songs, some only have 1. But then you get something where only 1 film will get all the nods for some reason when there were other great songs out too. The Cap is good, until the good songs aren’t in nomination for what they deserve. It is sort of like a catch-22. They are screwed no matter what they decide to do. In the end, I don’t think the cap is a good thing I guess.