Herrmann got an Oscar for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), various other nominations, but not for Vertigo.
Sent from my iPhone On 27 Feb 2012, at 19:49, Simon Oram <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > From: Colin Hunter <[email protected]> > Sender: MoPo List <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:20:58 -0500 > To: <[email protected]> > ReplyTo: 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. 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.
