Sour note: 3 top film scores ineligible for Academy Awards

Carter Burwell, Brian Eno and T-Bone Burnett barred from consideration

January 8, 2010 at 12:43AM

By Colin Covert

Rolling Stone reports that three of the year's outstanding film scores -- Carter Burwell's "Where the Wild Things Are," Brian Eno's "Up in the Air and T-Bone Burnett's "Crazy Heart" -- have been shut out of this year's Oscar competition. The reasons range from Motion Picture Academy bylaws barring collaborative scores to missing application paperwork. As RS notes, the situation echoes 2007, when Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's score for "There Will Be Blood," the leading contender to win the Oscar, was deemed ineligible. www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/01/05/karen-os-wild-things-enos-lovely-bones-scores-ineligible-for-oscars/

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