New Rules for Best Song

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New Oscar rule limits song noms to 2 per film
Thursday June 19 8:14 PM ET


Last time around, the Oscar songs category was three times "Enchanted" a trick that may never be repeated.

The number of original songs that can be nominated from a single movie will now be limited to two, according to a rule change by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The academy's governors approved the change late Tuesday.

Last year, Disney's "Enchanted" had three titles in contention: "Happy Working Song," "So Close" and "That's How You Know." The winner of best original song: "Falling Slowly," from "Once."

The new rule would also have applied in 2007, when three songs from "Dreamgirls" were nominated. That year, the Oscar went to "I Need to Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth"




Well, let's wait and see how long this takes to get changed. Is it just me, or would a move like this only encourage studios to write no more than two original songs for movies? If that's true, then we could kiss any new original musicals goodbye, that includes the Disney movies of yesteryear.
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