| How lucky can you get at the Oscars? For Kander & Ebb, not very | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:31 am EST 03/12/22 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:16 am EST 03/12/22 | |
| In reply to: Was it a shock when Mein Herr or Money, Money weren't Oscar nominated? - bobby2 12:11 am EST 03/12/22 | |
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| ''Cabaret'' (1972) racked up an amazing 10 Oscar nominations and won 8 of them, including Original Song Score or Adaptation. But that Academy Award went to Ralph Burns for adapting Kander & Ebb's songs, not to the songwriters themselves. ... It is puzzling that Oscar's music branch didn't nominate ''Mein Herr'' or ''Money, Money'' for Best Original Song. (However, they WERE nominated for Best Original Song at the Golden Globes.) ''The Morning After,'' a big hit, won Best Original Song at the 1973 Oscars. It beat out ''Ben'' from ''Ben'' and ''Marmalade, Molasses and Honey'' from ''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.'' The remaining two Oscar nominees are songs I've never heard of, from movies I've never heard of: ''Come Follow, Follow Me'' from ''The Little Ark'' and ''Strange Are the Ways of Love'' from ''The Stepmother.'' (I just listened to them on YouTube. Zzzzz!) (It's only speculation, but I wonder if the Academy music branch favored West Coast songwriters over the N.Y. duo of Kander & Ebb.) Kander & Ebb later got only 2 Oscar nominations: ''How Lucky Can You Get?'' from ''Funny Lady'' and ''I Move On'' from ''Chicago.'' To me, I was more shocked that they didn't get an Oscar nomination (and win) for their iconic title tune to ''New York, New York.'' I guess this 1977 movie was such a box-office disappointment that the Academy just chose to overlook it completely. Unlike the Golden Globes, which DID nominate ''New York, New York'' for Best Original Song. That picture also has two other terrific tunes (that I believe that they wrote for it): ''There Goes the Ball Game'' and ''And the World Goes 'Round.'' The latter, of course, became the title of the celebrated 1991 Off-Broadway revue of Kander & Ebb. |
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