elcome to the feature on this blog I like to call "Are The Oscars Stone Cold Deaf?" This is a feature that is dedicated to one of the most highly publicized awards in the Oscar season that is (for some reason) still underrated. This may have more to do with the fact that the Best Song category is the reason we still have dance numbers in the Oscar telecast (and people hate those dance numbers), but it doesn't change the fact that there are many great songs that get nominated for Best Song that never win. Sometimes the winners are either of lesser quality, not nearly as good, or so inferior to a fellow nominee that you just have wonder if the Oscars are just stone cold deaf. For our second installment we're going to look at the year 1985 (again, where the winner was not a total loss). Here's what won:
Now I love Lionel Richie as much as the next guy, but good as that song is its sort of a lightweight to honor it with a "Best Song" Oscar. Another song that would have been a slightly better choice is this one...
...which ironically comes from the same movie. "White Nights." Now these are both good songs. I'm not disputing that. However, there was a song nominated here that was so catchy, so memorable, that it took the world by storm and hasn't left since. And that is...
..."The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News. From the classic film "Back To The Future," this is what good memorable music is. It's become not only an iconic movie song, but an iconic song in general that is still played on the radio as if it were brand new to this very day. In this case, I think Oscar really blew it.
You've found yet another blog dedicated to predicting the Academy Awards (AKA: The Oscars). This is probably the most stupid and pointless game people play on the internet, seeing as how the Oscars aren't science and there are no rules, just guesses. Playing the Oscar prediction game is like playing roulette without being able to see the numbers, and you always end up looking like a fool at least once for predicting something that was just a bunch of hot air. But what the heck, it's also a lot of fun trying to predict nominations and wins off information that has nothing to do with anything. As with most Oscar sites I have my list of potential nominees on the right. Unlike many sites though, a guess won't appear until the movie has been released, otherwise I feed a hype machine that may have little merit to it. Anyway, hope you enjoy the blog.
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