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No Score: Dark Knight Music Disqualified From Oscars
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Okay, guys, either we all wrote it or none of us wrote it.
Oscar Pool Alert! According to Variety, the soundtrack for The Dark Knight has been disqualified from Academy Award contention. The bone of contention, as it were, was the listing of five names as composer on the official cue sheet submitted to the Academy–composers Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, and Lorne Balfe; music editor Alex Gibson; ambient music designer Mel Wesson.
The latter three signed an affidavit attesting that the majority of the music was written by Zimmer and Howard. Zimmer says the reason for listing all five names was so they’re credited ...
Dark Knight Score Disqualified By Oscar
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Dark Knight Score Disqualified By Oscar The Dark Knights chances to win an Oscar have just been reduced by one award. Variety reports that the movies score has been disqualified by the Academy. It is now no longer eligible to be nominated. It seems the Academy thinks too many people were involved in making Batman's music. Why that matters is a mystery, but apparently 5 names were listed as composers on the documentation they received from the studio. Those three names are Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Alex Gibson, Mel Wesson, and Lorne Balfe. The last three people in ...
Dark Knight Disqualifies. Trade Roughage 11/13/08
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The Dark Knight has been disqualified from the race for the Original Music Score Oscar. After four hours of discussing the matter, the executive committee of the Academy music branch non-unanimously deemed the score, which was technically only co-composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard yet which credited three others on sheet music for royalty purposes, ineligible on account of the inclusion of these partial collaborators.
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'Dark Knight' Score Oscar DQ'ed
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Ut oh, Dark Knight fans, it looks like the prediction that the film "will win every award ever dark knight rules" might not be entirely accurate. Variety is reporting the score has been disqualified from nomination because too many names were listed on the cue sheet: ...
