The Robbie Williams music “Forbidden Highway” from “Higher Man,” shortlisted earlier this week for finest unique music, has been disqualified, Selection has discovered.
The music, insiders report, “incorporates materials from an present music that was not written for the movie” and so has been deemed ineligible for the Oscar.
Academy guidelines state that the phrases and music of any music submitted for awards consideration should be “unique and written particularly for the movement image.”
“Forbidden Highway” is formally credited to Williams, Freddy Wexler and Sacha Skarbek, and it’s at present additionally nominated for a Golden Globe as finest unique music.
The melody of “Forbidden Highway” comprises marked similarities to that of “I Received a Identify,” the Charles Fox-Norman Gimbel music carried out by Jim Croce within the 1973 movie “The Final American Hero.” Coincidentally, Fox is one among three governors of the Academy’s music department.
A letter went out to the 400-plus members of the music department this morning. Reportedly the similarities got here to the eye of the department govt committee simply this week, and the choice to drop the music got here yesterday afternoon.
Famous the letter: “This can be a resolution that each honors our guidelines and protects the particular nature of the Unique Track and Rating classes.”
Executives at Paramount, which launched “Higher Man,” couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
The music department govt committee’s motion means the unique music shortlist shall be trimmed to 14 titles from the earlier 15. Disqualifications like this typically don’t end in a “substitute” music.
Music department voters will select from the remaining 14 titles when voting for Oscar nominations begins Jan. 8.
