[Movies] Oscars Snub Dark Knight Score
Posted by Ashish on 11.13.2008
Academy decides Dark Knight score not eligible for Oscar...
The Academy committee has decided that the score for The Dark Knight will not be eligible for an Oscar. The committee plans to tell composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton that their score for the movie will be disqualified because too many other people were also listed as composers (three other composers are also credited). The Academy only allows scores where over 70% can be credited to the main two principles. The Academy was given a signed letter by everyone involved with the score that Zimmer and Newton were responsible for over 70% of the score, but the Academy decided not to allow it anyway.
The film's score was universally praised as cutting-edge and moving.
Hahaha wow!! good luck to TDK on getting any kind of academy award. If it was about a Jewish concentration camp I bet it would have already won best picture!!
Posted By: SYC (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 12:45 PM
Lets face it the Oscars are a joke
One big hand-job for the industry to pat itself on the back for making overrated films.
Amadeus?
Adrian Brody?
Just a example of the Academy's wonderful decision making when it comes to films.
Posted By: Josh (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Wow that's incredibly bigoted. Sure this is probably the start of a Dark Knight getting snubbed trend, but you really wanna jump right into the Hollywood is a Jewish entity thing?
Posted By: Guest#7098 (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM
is it somewhat bigoed? yes.
that doesn't mean it's not true.
Posted By: Grantimus (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 01:17 PM
wow...a mel gibson fan, i presume?
Posted By: jbnorthstar (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 01:19 PM
What score? Tim Burton's Batman films will always have the edge over Nolan's in the sound department. Don't fuck with Danny Elfman.
Mel Gibson is awesome.
Posted By: MBD (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 02:28 PM
People still care about the Oscars?
Posted By: ewdd (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 02:37 PM
I love the DK score, but I would argue that much of it was recycled from Batman Begins, anyway. Not all, of course, and there are subtle differences, but it seems to me that if anything, the Begins score is the one that should've got the oscar nod in the first place.
Posted By: BJC (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 03:11 PM
I have never watched the Academy Awards and probably never will. Most of the Hollywood "stars" are idiots. Just listen to their "wonderful" political views for example. :-P
Posted By: Spyke (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Josh, have you actually seen Amadeus? It's fuckin awesome. You could've picked dozens of far more undeserving winners than that.
Posted By: Guest#1644 (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 05:32 PM
Do not diss "Amadeus"!
Posted By: Salieri (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 05:35 PM
It's because they're already giving Ledger the Oscar for best supporting actor and they probably didn't want to do that.
Posted By: Duh (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 05:46 PM
yeah, this is only the beginning. TDK was one of the best films i ever saw, but it made a buttload of money. therefore it is too popular and the oscars hate to reward anything popular.
Posted By: rey (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 05:53 PM
The Academy didn't reject the dark knight score. It flat out doesn't qualify. It's in the music branches rule books. Take your pills fanboys. Before you start attacking the Academy understand the rules, which can clearly be looked up at oscars.org Same thing happens all the time with doc's and foreign language films. Same thing happened to Batman Begins score. And for everyone's information Warner Bros is spending tons on ad's for dark knight for academy award noms in best pic, actor awards director, art and tech, etc. Ledger is a lock I think it getting the dark horse best pic spot is not crazy either. Nolan will probably get nominated. A lot of tough competition out there such as Danny Boyle's amazing "Slumdog Millionaire."
Posted By: sirois destroyer (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 05:55 PM
Dark Knight had a score? Oh, you mean that NOISE during Joker's early scenes? That, and the rest was generic, generic, generic. Don't get me wrong, the movie was great, and I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer & Newton Howard, but the "soundtrack" is completely forgettable and near useless. Danny Elfman's Batman theme kicks this score's ass and likes it.
-E
Posted By: Eric (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 06:18 PM
I hope TDK wins an Oscar as much as the next person, but will it define the film either way. If it wins, does that make the movie better, if it doesn't does that mean the movie sucks. I think not. This will be one of my all time favorite movies regardless of whether or not it wins one of the most overrated awards in the world.
Posted By: falsechos (Guest) on November 13, 2008 at 06:45 PM
I though the DK score was phenomenal and the way that it interacted with the film itself (specifically heightening the tension in many, many scenes) was amazing. To consider this a conspiracy is pretty ridiculous, but Jesus, what a great soundtrack to get snubbed on a technicality.
Posted By: Hawkeye (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 08:00 AM
I don't see where this makes any difference about the film's chances for other Oscars. In the overall scheme of things, the Academy snubbing the film's score won't change the perception of the film in the eyes of either the general public or the Oscar voters.
Now, in terms of people thinking the Oscars actually mean anything? Yeah, they're gonna have to try harder. The Academy Awards are a self-congratulatory circlejerk, that's all they've ever been, and they've often ignored and snubbed films that have either proven in the long run to be important to film history or have been more popular and well-remembered both critically and culturally than films that went on to win awards. (After all, which 2005 film do you think people remember more -- Batman Begins or Crash?)
The Academy has also refused to acknowledge genre films (comedy, superhero, and sci-fi films have long been snubbed by the Academy) and, up until recently, animated films weren't even given their own award (and even now that they have one, it's unequal to other categories). The Oscars aren't a barometer of popular culture nor are they the standard by which great films should be judged. They're a way for Hollywood to blow millions on an annual television broadcast as a way to say "We're famous, and you're not, now be jealous of us as we give ourselves awards for being so damn famous".
In short: the Oscars mean nothing, and this decision means less than nothing.
Posted By: Anonymous Film Critic (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 08:05 AM
"The Academy didn't reject the dark knight score. It flat out doesn't qualify. It's in the music branches rule books"
Did you not read the article?? SIGNED LETTER BY EVERYONE INVOLVED. Idiot
Posted By: Fanboy without his pills (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 08:29 AM
nothing touches the "conan the barbarian" score. nothing.
Posted By: anti-messiah (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Eh, the score's a minor issue. I'll save my outrage for the off chance that Nolan or Ledger are snubbed.
Posted By: Lissa (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 05:02 PM
To fanboy eithout his pills: I work for the academy I'm not joking. There's no conspiracy it doesn't qualify. Has nothing to do with it being a commercial comic book movie. Jackass. I'm not bias. I just not it's clearly obvious if you take the time to look at the music branches rules you would see the score doesn't qualify. Thelisted 5 composers. They should have come up with a compromise when they submitted the names. Read the rules. There aren't any panels with colorful pictures but hopefully you will actually learn something. We're dealing with something similar with a foreign language film.
Posted By: Sirois destroyer (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 07:28 PM
"To fanboy eithout his pills: I work for the academy I'm not joking"
Posted By: Sirois destroyer (Guest) on November 14, 2008 at 07:28 PM
And what academy would that be? The "Im about to try and pass off a load of grammatically incorrect bullshit as fact academy"?
Posted By: Fanboy without his pills (Guest) on November 22, 2008 at 09:04 AM
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