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muriel_volestrangler

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56. Alone Yet Not Alone: Oscars scandal as best song nominee is disqualified

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #17)

Thu Jan 30, 2014, 02:25 PM

Jan 2014

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has revoked a nomination in the best original song category for Alone Yet Not Alone after the songwriter, himself an Academy official, violated Oscar rules and emailed voters about submitting the song for consideration.

Musician Bruce Broughton, a former Academy governor and current executive committee member in its music branch, composed the title song from the independent Christian faith movie Alone Yet Not Alone.

The Academy said on Wednesday that Broughton had used his position within the organisation to contact voters about his own submission of the song, which was "inconsistent" with the Academy's rules on Oscar nominations campaigning.
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Broughton said in a statement he was "devastated" at the Academy's decision. "I indulged in the simplest grassroots campaign and it went against me when the song started getting attention. I got taken down by competition that had months of promotion and advertising behind them. I simply asked people to find the song and consider it."

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jan/30/alone-yet-not-alone-oscars-disqualified

Dominionist movie ethics fail. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.

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Alone Yet Not Alone: Oscars scandal as best song nominee is disqualified muriel_volestrangler Jan 2014 #56

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