Springsteen Couldn’t Wrestle Himself an Oscar Nomination
Posted by Craig Kessler on February 21, 2009 at 5:45 am
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The Oscars are tomorrow and this means a lot to some people or very little to most, more on the latter. There are always arguments to who should win, who should have won or what most people care about, what they were wearing. Sometimes people don’t even get the nomination they deserve, and one person in my opinion got truly snubbed
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Bruce Springsteen wrote the beautiful, dark cloudy ballad of a broken down and beaten has been for his song The Wrestler for the movie of the same name. His created character for the song fit like a glove the character that Mickey Rourke portrayed on the big screen. The song fit so well that not only did it receive a Golden Globe nomination, but it won, for best song in a movie.
Of course I was ecstatic, I am a huge Springsteen fan, but the fact that he truly did deserve it made it so special for so man Springsteen fans around. Now the Oscars come rolling by, and he completely gets snubbed. Forget about going for the major awards sweeps, he doesn’t even get nominated. 3 Other songs were selected for the award, 2 of them belonging to the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack. I actually bought both those songs off of iTunes, and think they are fantastic, and deserve to be up for the award. The 3rd song is from the Wall-E soundtrack, a nice tune by Peter Gabriel. Nothing against those 3 songs, they do deserve to be nominated, and I wish them the best of luck.
But how can Springsteen win the Golden Globes, and then not even get nominated for song of the year? The thing that makes no sense to me is that only 3 songs were selected to be in the running for the award. If you look at the rules of the Oscars
for the category, it will tell you that there has to be a minimum of 3 songs selected, and maximum of 5. So 2 songs still could have been nominated, and somehow the board of experts who’s in charge still decided it wasn’t even good enough to round out the 5.
After checking the rules more, the songs have to have an average score of 8.25 minimum to be pushed along for the nomination. Whoever were the judges who rated this song on some crazy messed up scale, they did him and his fans a complete in justice. That song should be up for the song of the year. Just because they are the Oscars, doesn’t necessarily mean they get everything right. This time they clearly didn’t. Do you agree?
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Who are these people that would keep Bruce off the ballot?
It smells like they might have a real good reason. Greed?
Maybe. You tell me. Better yet let them tell us. Thank you very much.
Jaime Lleno
@James I’m not sure the reason for keeping him off. Not really sure how the Academy could have kept him off the ballots, especially when there were 2 nominations available left. It is not just one of the best movie songs of the year, but best songs overall.