The show's producers said none of the nominees were invited to sing at the March 7 awards ceremony. Randy Newman's totally wry and bemused about this. More at EW, including a clip of Elliott Smith's…   Read Story »

Finally, the Academy seems prepared to recognize that guy. Check the full list of noms over here.   Read Story »

Karen has a Golden Globe nom, but her WTWTA work has been snubbed from Best Original Score Oscar contention, likely for its "predominant use of songs." As for Eno's The Lovely Bones? He just couldn't…   Read Story »

Videogum liveblogged and livetweeted the Academy Awards last night, including the red carpet pre-show and Barbara Walters special, and Gabe did not kill himself. Success! Slumdog Millionaire won…   Read Story »

The self-proclaimed "old fart" had agreed to perform his award-nominated Wall-E song "Down To Earth" until he was told he'd have to cut it to one-minute and fit into an Oscar-song medley. Songwriters…   Read Story »

Fan favorite Slumdog Millionaire has 2/3 of the song nominations, Peter Gabriel's WALL-E tune the other third. M.I.A. doesn't get a direct nod, outside of releasing the soundtrack on her imprint. And…   Read Story »

Last night's Academy Awards was probably the most exciting one I have ever seen, which doesn't mean that it wasn't the most boring thing I've ever seen, but it was less boring than how boring the…   Read Story »

As far as predicting Best Song awards go, there's little conventional wisdom to rely on aside from Randy Newman probably being nominated, and a song you probably don't care about winning. Not so at…   Read Story »

Our look into Jonny Greenwood's odds at winning the Oscar started by presciently realizing, "first he'll have to get nominated." Of course we figured he was a shoo-in, and of course we were wrong.…   Read Story »