The first thing that jumped out at me from this morning’s Oscar nominations: The Best Original Song category has only three nominees. Read the full post.
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It’s a nice song but it’s no where near as good as “Streets of Philadelphia.” And yes, even though the Oscars tend to nominate questionable choices, usually they get the winners right. Remember, last yr Once’s “Falling Slowly” won instead of the all the Disney ones.
I think Springsteen is overrated but its odd that the song that won the Globes is not even nominated. Maybe the Academy was thinking of the length of the show when they made the decision. All nominated songs get performed. The song might have been on the bubble and due to the length they thought…well it wasn’t that good anyway. Still weird though.
“It’s certainly comparable to Springsteen’s masterful “Streets of Philadelphia,” which took home a Best Song Oscar in 1994.”
That’s exactly the problem. Bruce Springsteen’s songs all sound the same. Giving him an Oscar for this song would be like giving Nickelback a Grammy for any of their songs.
Are you surprised? Last year Eddie Vedder was shut out for a most steller soundtrack that was crucial to Into the Wild.
I agree. The song is fantastic, and matched with the brilliant ending of the film it has an immense emotional impact.
Well, aren’t there really two Springsteens, one before ‘Born In the USA’ and the one after? In other words, in the beginning, he was a great original artist and had some superb music, relating all kinds of feelings of desperation, isolation, etc, but from an everyman’s perspective. Personally, “Atlantic City” is one of the most moving songs of the 80s. And then, ‘Born In The USA’ came out and then he became the single most overrated act of all time. Nothing afterwards was meaningful, even the Grammy Award winning ‘Streets of Philadephia’ was trite and an attempt at contriving the moodiness of the “Nebraska” album.