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'88th Academy Awards Sunday

When the 88th Academy Awards go down this Sunday, everyone will be scrambling to the internet to try to figure out, if Eddie Redmayne wins another Academy Award for best actor, why someone has won more awards than there have been to see his films. Or maybe, if Sylvester Stallone gets his due, how actor and Stallone can go together in the same sentence. Without further ado, let's play with Oscar for a little while.
  • 'Score for Alejandro G. Innaritu's 'Birdman' Ineligible for Oscar: Antonio Sanchez Files Appeal

    Fans of the amazing Antonio Sanchez’s drum-heavy score for Alejandro G. Innaritu's widely acclaimed film "Birdman" will be disappointed to hear that it is has been deemed ineligible for an Academy Award this season. The branch disqualified the movie for best score because its soundtrack includes pieces of classical music in addition to Sanchez’s score. But this decision has not come without controversy. There is a highly contentious debate about whether or not to overturn the decision between Sanchez, Inarritu, Fox Music and the chairman of the academy's music branch executive committee, the details of which have not been previously reported. When the Golden Globe nominations were announced, "Birdman" topped the list with seven nominations, including one for best original score. Later that day, Dave Hanson, the Academy Awards's manager, passed along a note from Charles Fox, chairman of the academy's music branch executive committee, to Sanchez through his manager, notifying the composer that his score was ineligible and would not appear on the academy's long list for the best original score Oscar consideration. Fox wrote, "The [music branch] committee viewed the film, reviewed the cue sheets and discussed the score at length, particularly with regard to Rule 15, Section II-E of our Awards Rules, which state, 'Scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible.’”
  • 'Neil Patrick Harris Set to Host 2015 Oscars, Promotes 'Choose Your Own Autobiography' with New Book Trailer

    Neil Patrick Harris has a knack for being a proverbial bad boy. From a Broadway debacle to his role as the hilarious chauvinist Barney Stinson, his "memoirs," entitled "Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography," have a new book trailer out on YouTube, along with news that he will host next year's Oscars.
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