WIRED: Academy score rules suck

Wired Magazine recently reported something we've been saying for years -- that the Academy's eligibility rules regarding music and scores are antiquated and lame. They sight AMPAS's disqualification of the amazing score from THERE WILL BE BLOOD, written by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. They canned the score because it sampled pieces of other existing classical works, completely ignoring the fact that the 35 minutes of new music he composed for the film is more original than basically anything else to come out this year. Kinda makes me hope the writer's strike lasts long enough to send the blessed Oscar ceremony the way of the dodo. Or at least the way of the Golden Globes.

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