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August 19, 2006
Will SNAKES ON A PLANE be Oscar-nominated?
I'm serious.
"Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" by Cobra Starship is far and away the Best Original Song I've heard in a movie all year.
But more likely one of the Jack Johnson songs from CURIOUS GEORGE will win.
What say you, readers?
Posted by LYT at August 19, 2006 10:59 PM [Message Board]
Comments
It depends on whether Sam Jackson calls all the voters or not. ;)
Posted by: Julie Scott at August 20, 2006 12:56 AM
That leads to a very interesting question: what is the worst film ever to win any sort of Oscar?
Posted by: Steve Smith at August 20, 2006 9:05 AM
steve's point shows the answer is no way - I only know two academy voters but both are typical - and they would hate to award any oscar to a film they see as downmarket in that way
Posted by: offpat at August 20, 2006 12:42 PM
Welll....a song from the movie JUNIOR, a comedy about Arnold Schwarzenegger being the first man to get pregnant, got nominated for Best Original Song. Didn't win, though.
Don't forget Marisa Tomei winning for MY COUSIN VINNY -- fun comedy but by no means a classic, not even a comedy classic.
"I Just Called to Say I Love You" -- didn't that get Best Original Song, from the Gene Wilder comedy THE WOMAN IN RED?
Posted by: LYT at August 20, 2006 3:50 PM
The best song category has a rich history of nominating songs from movies that would never in a million years be nominated for anything else - from "8 Mile" and "Lose Yourself" to, most notoriously, "More," from the insane, racist, often hilarious shockumentary "Mondo Cane" (which won). So this would really not be that big of a stretch.
Posted by: Ben at August 20, 2006 4:40 PM
Don't forget the classic films, You Light Up My Life and Thank God It's Friday, which also won Oscars for this category (in back-to-back years, no less). Leonard Maltin's film book picks TGIF as "perhaps the worst film ever to have won some kind of Oscar."
Posted by: Steve Smith at August 20, 2006 5:29 PM
Didn't "Blame Canada" get nominated for Orginal Song from "South Park"
Not a "bad" film but I think the point is that songs get nominated from films that probably don't have a chance of being nominated themsleves.
Posted by: Matthew at August 21, 2006 3:21 AM
come to think of it I doubt the 2 voters I know even bother checking out a single nominated song - tone deaf - maybe this is that one off category where tatse is allowed to be a tad more liberal.
Posted by: offpat at August 21, 2006 8:47 AM