I had been wondering how this score got the award especially as a few years ago Johnny Greenwood's score for There Will be Blood was declared ineligable for an Oscar nomination for exactly this type of technicality. By the way Greenwood's score was the outstanding piece and a real shame it wasn't even in the running. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Hunter <[email protected]> Sender: MoPo List <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:20:58 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: Colin Hunter <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] The Oscars Given his substantial contribution to the finished product, shouldn't Lodovic Bource have shared his Oscar with Bernard Herrmann for the score, or at the very least acknowledged him in his thank you speech? Personally I much preferred Howard Shore's more orchestral score for Hugo (and it was all his own work to boot). Colin > From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Bruce Hershenson > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] The Oscars > > It's the morning after, and overall, I thought it was a real > snoozefest, Billy Crystal was entertaining, but SO familiar in > everything he did and said. And was I the only one who kept > wondering if he might have looked and performed better if he hadn't > had his very obvious plastic surgery? And isn't it a bad sign when > the best segment was the circus art, which has zero to do with movies. > > It hit me when they did the "In Memorium" segment, and there were > tons of behind the scenes people no one knows, with a few famous > faces thrown in. They have successfully turned the Oscars into the > Golden Globes, filled with insiders and inside jokes, where they > pretty much ignore the viewing public, and give the awards to the > movies THEY like. the kind that the critics fawn over, but which not > many people actually see. > > Of course, this transformation has been going on for many years, but > at least they used to pretend to care about the people who make it > all possible, those who buy the tickets. And in a day when movies > face more and more competition from all sorts of other kinds of > entertainment, it may not be just the awards ceremony that sees its > number of viewers continuing to fall in coming years. > > This was once must-viewing for me. and I have watched it every year, > but I think I will skip it next year. > > Bruce > > -- > Bruce Hershenson and the other 24 members of the eMoviePoster.com team > P.O. Box 874 > West Plains, MO 65775 > Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when > we take lunch) > our site > our auctions > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > Send a message addressed to: [email protected] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
