Grammy & The Movies
I’ve already trashed Oscar for not throwing a Best Song nomination to Eddie Vedder’s “Guaranteed” fromInto the Wild while finding room for 1-2-3 songs fromEnchanted and a sappy ballad from the saptacularAugust Rush. Worse, it ignored Jonny Greenwood’s landmark score fromThere Will Be Blood because the Radiohead innovator referenced other music. Apparently sampling is not a term the Academy of Motion Pictures Farts & Biases has ever heard.
With the Grammy awards this Sunday, it’s time to see how music people do with judging movie music.
Here are the Grammy nominees for BEST MOVIE SONG:
“Falling Slowly” (fromOnce)/Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, songwriters
“Guaranteed” (fromInto the Wild)/Eddie Vedder, songwriter
“Love You I Do” (fromDreamgirls)/Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger, songwriters
“The Song of the Heart” (fromHappy Feet)/Prince Rogers Nelson, songwriter
“You Know My Name” (fromCasino Royale)/David Arnold & Chris Cornell, songwriters
Jeez, talk about time warps!Dreamgirls,Happy Feet andCasino Royale came out two years ago.
Put that stupidity down to Grammy’s dragass eligbility time frame, which is Oct. 1, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2007. That leaves “Falling Slowly,” the emo hit fromOnce the only song Oscar and Grammy have in common. But I’m giving Grammy points for including Eddie Vedder, whose songs forInto the Wild helped raise that film’s already high-level game. Vedder, after winning a Grammy in 1996, famously said, “I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” Hmm.
Moving on to the BEST MOVIE SCORE, here are Grammy’s picks:
Babel/Gustavo Santaolalla, composer
Blood Diamond/James Newton Howard, composer
The Departed/Howard Shore, composer
Happy Feet/John Powell, composer
Pan’s Labyrinth/Javier Navarrete, composer
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Ratatouille/Michael Giacchino, composer
Double jeez. Only one new movie in the bunch —Ratatouille, which is a solid choice. Maybe next year, time eligibility rules will let in Jonny Greenwood’sThere Will Be Blood and Dario Marianelli’s tonally experimental score forAtonement, which even tin-earred Oscar found the balls to nominate. If so, congrats are in order. In the meantime, can some friendo find a way to wipe the mold off of Oscar and Grammy rules and recognize the importance of music to movies in a timely manner?
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