The 2010 Academy Award Nominations

  No music nomination for Where The Wild Things Are— don’t weep for Karen O though, things are still going pretty well for her. Best Original Score “Avatar” (20th Century Fox), James Horner “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox), Alexandre Desplat “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment), Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders “Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.),…

Oscar Nominations, Bruce Out, M.I.A. In + Other Surprises and Snubs

  The 2009 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning and there were more than a few surprises, including the exclusion of Bruce Springsteen‘s Golden Globe Award winning song “The Wrestler”, and the inclusion of “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam. Here’s a rundown of the music categories and the major…

The Awards Show Bump

Congratulations to Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova and John Carney (the director of Once) on winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song and having the number one selling album on amazon.com. As Drake said, let’s hope it translates into some Billboard action too. Though as a host he was so-so again, Jon Stewart gets high…