| Bizarre Oscar Wins, Nominations, and Omissions in the Music Category | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 03:03 pm EDT 05/15/24 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 02:47 pm EDT 05/15/24 | |
| In reply to: re: You light up my life—was played everywhere - WaymanWong 11:09 pm EDT 05/14/24 | |
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| The 1977 film New York, New York is a really bad movie, one of De Niro and Scorsese's worst. A failure at the box office, the Maltin Guide gives it only 1 star and a half. I was a big fan of Liza Minnelli and went to see it in '77 at a local cinema. She is very good and the title song is great, but it's a very tough film to sit through. I've never heard of any prejudice against John Kander, who is one of the nicest guys in the world. I suspect the song just got overlooked. I think Sinatra's '79 recording of it is what really put it on the map. Just IMO. In a similar vein, although the very great Elmer Bernstein did receive 14 Oscar noms over his long career, he had only 1 win, a bizarre one at that -- for his underscore to the film musical Thoroughly Modern Millie. Ironically, none of his music is featured on the soundtrack album. His most iconic scores, like The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape weren't even nominated. In addition, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Man with the Golden Arm, Hawaii did receive noms, but failed to win the prize. IMO Quincy Jones should have won that year for his powerful, uncompromising score for In Cold Blood -- Jones' very fine score that same year for In the Heat of the Night wasn't even nominated although the film won Best Picture. I still listen occasionally to the soundtracks of both of those Quincy Jones' scores today. |
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