For better or for worse, this year's Music Oscars process is nearing completion.
Thursday night, members of the music industry AMPA met and seen more than two hours of film clip of three minutes of the 41 songs in consideration for award for best original song. Other members of the Section saw the same clips on DVD at home. Each song was recorded on a scale of 6 to 10, the scores will soon be counted, and somewhere between zero and five songs will be appointed.
I wrote about my problems with the process (read: Process Out of Tune Song Oscar), and some members of the Academy expressed dissatisfaction as follows: "Just to see a quick little excerpt will not tell you anything it is about the journey that the music takes you on ", the composer Hans Zimmer said last year.But then Oscar Music Awards always attracted controversy - and the industry, perhaps to his credit, was one of the most active academic departments trying to play with the process for the better.
Few competitors this year are better than the songwriter and composer Alan Menken (left), a competitor of the song "I See The Light" from "Tangled" and one of the few people who can legitimately say that the Oscar rules have been changed because of it.
By Menken, they changed because he kept winning: In the space of seven years between 1989 and 1995 he was nominated for an Oscar and won eight dozen of them, all the music for a series history of animated film from Disney "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin" and "Pocahontas."
Thursday night, members of the music industry AMPA met and seen more than two hours of film clip of three minutes of the 41 songs in consideration for award for best original song. Other members of the Section saw the same clips on DVD at home. Each song was recorded on a scale of 6 to 10, the scores will soon be counted, and somewhere between zero and five songs will be appointed.
I wrote about my problems with the process (read: Process Out of Tune Song Oscar), and some members of the Academy expressed dissatisfaction as follows: "Just to see a quick little excerpt will not tell you anything it is about the journey that the music takes you on ", the composer Hans Zimmer said last year.But then Oscar Music Awards always attracted controversy - and the industry, perhaps to his credit, was one of the most active academic departments trying to play with the process for the better.
Few competitors this year are better than the songwriter and composer Alan Menken (left), a competitor of the song "I See The Light" from "Tangled" and one of the few people who can legitimately say that the Oscar rules have been changed because of it.
By Menken, they changed because he kept winning: In the space of seven years between 1989 and 1995 he was nominated for an Oscar and won eight dozen of them, all the music for a series history of animated film from Disney "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin" and "Pocahontas."
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