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From: Mark Jeffries
A lot of the controversy in Best Song is because of the recent rules
stating that the song has to be an integral part of the movie, ruling that
you couldn't nominate a song that only appears in the second half of the
credits. Now, a song must either be in a prominent place in the film (not
background source music, for example) clearly heard and with clearly-sung
lyrics and if it only appears in the end credits, it must be right at the
top (and I assume that the composers' branch will look kinder at a song
starting in the last scene and bridging into the credits rather than
blasting in at the beginning of the crawl--and that's assuming that the
film has proper titles and not have all of the credits at the end).
This article should explain another thread of the kerfuffle.
http://www.billboard.com/news/oscar-analysis-what-happened-to-best-original-1005966952.story#/news/oscar-analysis-what-happened-to-best-original-1005966952.story
I seem to recall another article I read a little while back -- but can't
find now -- that stated the nominees for best song were also held to a
higher qualifying threshold (8.25/10) than some/all of the other categories.
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