Oscar 2009: Best Song Longlist
"Jai Ho" sound clip. Posted by Marycarmenrod.
In December, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that forty-nine songs are contending for a spot in the 2009 Academy Awards‘ Best Original Song category.
Three to five songs will receive a nomination. A maximum of two songs may be nominated per film. If more than two songs from a film end up in contention, the two songs with the most votes will be the nominees. In other words, no five High School Musical 3: Senior Year nominated songs. (Last year, Enchanted received three nominations — all of them in the best song category.)
As per Academy rules, "to be eligible, a song must consist of [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 14, 2009
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Tags: 2009 Oscar, Academy Awards, Best Songs, Composers, Film Awards, Hamlet 2, Jai Ho, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Rock Me Sexy Jesus, Slumdog Millionaire
Sundance 2008: HENRY POOLE IS HERE, HAMLET 2
David M. Halbfinger in the New York Times:
"After a weekend marked by too many downbeat dramas and comedies in name only, the Sundance Film Festival’s flock of film buyers finally began taking in movies they could send to the multiplexes — and it was a religious experience.
"As Monday night bled into Tuesday, Henry Poole Is Here, Mark Pellington’s lighthearted tale [written by Alberto Torres] of a terminally ill man (Luke Wilson), his troubled neighbors and a stain on his stucco wall that might resemble the face of Jesus, sold to Overture Films, one of the new movie distributors clamoring for attention and pictures.
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According to Halbfinger, the U.S. rights to the dramatic comedy Henry Poole Is Here sold for US$3.5 million, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 23, 2008
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Tags: Andrew Fleming, Hamlet 2, Henry Poole Is Here, Luke Wilson, Mark Pellington, Pam Brady, Rock Me Sexy Jesus, Sundance 2008, Sundance Film Festival