And if only one song achieved that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score would be the two nominees. If no song qualified, there would be no nominees. Only those songs that received an average score of 8.25 or more were eligible for nomination.
For the 1945 awards, 14 songs were nominated.įrom 1946 to 2011, each member of the Music Branch of the Academy was asked to vote using a points system of 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5, 7, 6.5 or 6 points. Until the Academy Awards for 1945 (awarded in 1946) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. The current Academy rule says an eligible song "must be recorded for use in the motion picture prior to any other usage", so recordings released prior to the film will not disqualify a song as long as the film version was recorded before then. The same issue arose two years earlier with " In the Deep" from Crash, which appeared on Bird York's 2003 album The Velvet Hour after being written for Crash, but before the film was released. However, the AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film's protracted production, the composers had "played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song's eligibility".
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It was also used in the movie Beauty in Trouble and released on its soundtrack in September 2006. The Swell Season was released in August 2006, and The Cost in February 2007, before the release of Once. "Falling Slowly" had been released on two other albums – The Swell Season, Hansard and Irglova's duo project, and The Cost, by Hansard's band The Frames. There was a debate as to whether or not Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who were awarded the Oscar in 2008 for " Falling Slowly", were in fact eligible. As a result, many recent film adaptations of musicals have included original songs which could be nominated, such as " You Must Love Me" in the 1996 film Evita (won award), and " Listen", " Love You I Do", " Patience" in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, and "Suddenly" in the 2012 film Les Misérables.
This rule means that when a film is adapted from a previously produced stage musical, none of the existing songs from the musical are eligible. Songs that rely on sampled or reworked material along with cover versions, remixes and parodies, such as " Gangsta's Paradise" (which samples " Pastime Paradise" by Stevie Wonder) in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, are also ineligible. Kern got the Academy to change the rule so that only songs that are "original and written specifically for the motion picture" are eligible to win. 8 on the best seller list before it was used in the film. It was recorded by Kate Smith and peaked at No. Kern's song was actually written in 1940, after the Germans occupied Paris at the start of World War II. Kern was upset because he thought that Blues in the Night by Harold Arlen (Music) and Johnny Mercer (lyrics) should have won. Kern was upset that his song won because it had been published and recorded before it was used in the film. This rule was changed after the 1941 Academy Awards, when "The Last Time I Saw Paris", from the film Lady Be Good, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, won. The original requirement was only that the nominated song appear in a motion picture during the previous year. There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the motion picture or as the first music cue in the end credits."
Motion picture award for music Academy Award for Best Original SongĪcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)