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Oscars: Once scores once

8:33 AM Tue, Jan 22, 2008 | Permalink |
Stephen Becker

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Once, the best reviewed film of the year according to the Rotten Tomatoes Web site, at least earned one nomination, in the original song category for "Falling Slowly." And it has a strong chance of winning, as it will do battle with three songs from Enchanted, which might cancel each other out, and a song from August Rush, which didn't get real great reviews otherwise. During an interview in December, I asked Once star Glen Hansard what he thought about a possible Oscar nomination. "I don’t want to be selfish and be like, ‘Oh my god, I’d love that!” But I know my mother would … [expletive] love it." So congratulations to Glen's mother.

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Posted by Kip Mooney @ 10:03 PM Tue, Jan 22, 2008

It appears Jonny Greenwood's fantastic score for 'There Will Be Blood' was deemed ineligible in just the last week (something to do with a chunk of the score being adapted from a 2005 concert for the BBC), which gets me to wondering: Shouldn't the songs from 'Once' be ineligible too (don't get me wrong, I don't want that. They're all terrific), as most of the tracks appear on Glen's album 'The Swell Season'?

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