“Like it or not, The Dark Knight is going to keep popping up in headlines all the way through to the Oscars in February, so just be prepared. This latest news is rather disappointing for those who were a fan of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s score – that even I’d been strongly supporting since June. The executive committee of the Academy music branch has disqualified their score from Oscar consideration this year. This actually happened to their Batman Begins score in 2005 as well, so this isn’t the first time. The Academy’s reason behind the disqualification states that five names were listed as composers, and Zimmer and Howard were only credited for “more than 60%, but less than 70%” of the score.”
> See full article at firstshowing.net
Always amazing how certain people come up with cheesy information. Hans Zimmer should be sued it seems, having used and even abused so many people.
Wish I could say such things without knowing people in person.
Han’s is a wonderful composer but he has disregarded young talent and used and abused them for so long that maybe this will give him thought for fairness in the future. People sometimes have a tendency to reach a certain level of fame and in the process forget how they got there and forget to help and acknowledge others who got them there. Hans, for the love of the art that you have been so lucky to be given a gift for encourage future generations. The Oscar whould have been yours but in failure one leans to be humble and one lerns to give more.
That shows again how and why the Academy acted as losers in recent years by not recognizing talent in score production. I already felt it coming since Gladiator was not rewarded over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (no disrespect, but the Gladiator score will be sounding strong in people’s ears for many years). The only recent interesting exception was for The Return of the King; besides that, I lost interest on Oscar-winning scores.
Still, I hope somebody will clean up the mess out of the old geezers leading the Academy someday.
Up and coming composer and Zimmer fan ,hope to work with you one fine day ..Way to go Hans !U are the best you set the rules ‘The folks judging your presentation and inclusion of your hardworking theme cannot even produce half of what you create . (boogsie777@yahoo.com) Play on star !!
some time ago on h.-z..com,
2007, July 20
No more Oscars for Hans ZIMMER
The german website ONLINE FOCUS revealed that Hans ZIMMER didn’t want to be nominated for the Oscars anymore.
"I was 7 times nominated ; Each time, it brought my life out its balance ; call, interviews and stress. That’s why i decided it was enough. From now, I forbid the Filmstudios to submit my music to the Academy."
Cool, Hans!…You´re So Cool :-)
This seems to fit perfectly with the somewhat more conservative and perhaps pretentious view on film music the Academy seems to have (how else could you give it to Santoalla two years in a row?). But then again, unless officially stated how much music is actually written by the other additional composers (according to game composer Jeremy Soule in an interview hardly more than 2-5 minutes maximum, and I would imagine he has some insight), I do, with my curse of objectivity, see the point the Academy is making.
Only, who cares about the Academy, especially since Hans has declared he doesn’t want (even forbade his publisher?) to get nominated anymore. I think he’s being generous about the credits and progressive when it comes to the work situation, and in that context I don’t think awards should matter much to him (although apparently, the reason he didn’t want to be nominated anymore, is precisely because they meant a little too much).
I’m happy to live in Belgium for once – where filmmusic is properly appreciated on the Ghent Film Festival.