Comments on: There Will Be Blood Score Disqualified From Oscars

By: mrrh

mrrh — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:18:19 +0000

it was a good score but Bodysong was much better in my opinion

By: Dragonslayer

Dragonslayer — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:28:27 +0000

The score sucked anyway

By: krazie835

krazie835 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:49:10 +0000

If it got eliminated because it had pre-existing music then that doesn’t explain why Babel got nominated last season. A lot of the music in that score had been used in other movies and T.V. shows and yet it still got a nomination and it even got the Oscar.

By: krazie835

krazie835 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:43:53 +0000

Ok then maybe you can clarify a bit more, “its about using another music”, what does that mean exactly?

By: name

name — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:45:52 +0000

your not the smartest, krazie, are you?
they are not talking about “borrowing elements” or stupid shit like that. what the fuck has it to do if a composers makes something similiar, its about using another music.

By: krazie835

krazie835 — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:05:36 +0000

If that was the case then I don’t understand how Babel even got nominated for best score last year. It should not have been there in the nominations last season because it already had plenty of music that had been used before.

How long has this rule existed? There have been several other scores that have referenced in several other compositions, and yet they have been nominated for an Oscar, and they have even won.

John Williams has certainly borrowed elements from other peoples work, Star Wars did heavily resemble Mars The Bringer of War.

Catch Me If You Can had several references to John Williams earlier score for J.F.K.

Hans Zimmer’s score for Gladiator had references to some of his previous works, and he even had Mars The Bringer of War in his score, note for note.