"MAN OR MUPPET" Nominated for Best Original Song OSCAR!

[Borples]

Yeah, if it loses to Rio, I think it's time we all go colonize our own planet. I hear Koozebain is lovely this time of year.

So a few weeks ago, I was reading about the process for nominating songs. Apparently, eligible voters had to watch all of the songs on the list as they were presented in their respective movies, and immediately after give them a score. Songs had to have a certain average score or higher to be eligible as a nominee. Which I guess explains why there are only two songs nominated this year--either there was no really good music, or members of the Academy were all grumpy. Anyway, when I read that, I thought that it might hurt Life's a Happy Song's chances. Because the very first time I heard that song, I was thinking it was a little cheesy and happy even for the Muppets. But then after three or four listens I fell in love and it's been stuck in my head ever since. It grows on you, is what I'm saying, and that's not accounted for in the scoring process. Whereas Man or Muppet has a sort of surprising brilliance about it, especially as it's presented in the movie.

But, whatever, enough analyzing. Time to root on Man or Muppet!! Muppet Oscar! Muppet Oscar! Let's go, Muppet Oscar!

 

[Slackbot]

I still wish Pictures in My Head had been nominated . Apparently I'm the only one.

 

[Drtooth]

I still wish Pictures in My Head had been nominated . Apparently I'm the only one.

Every song should have been nominated. I don't think there's a single Muppet fan here that wouldn't think so. Even Me party.

 

[jacobsnchz]

Oh my god I think a Muppet movie is about to win an Academy Award.

This made my day! LMBO! Partially because, for some reason, I read it in a country accent... I'm weird like that! haha.

 

[DannyRWW]

Only two songs...well at least they picked a good one...I'd rather see this win than life's a happy song anyways.

 

[muppetlover123]

I still wish Pictures in My Head had been nominated . Apparently I'm the only one.

no your not lol i want steve whitmire to win an award

 

[Superstarseven]

Not a single one of the Golden Globe nominees for Best original song made it onto the Oscar list. The bare minimum is 2 and The Muppets made it in.

 

[Drtooth]

Looked at the other nominations.

Pixar so got snubbed. But then again, I agree that they should have. This was definitely the year they'd sit it out.

 

[zoebell]

apparently, according to the new oscar song rules from a few years ago, a song has to be scored on a scale of 1-10 to be nominated. and it has to have an average of at least 8.25 to get in

if no movie gets a score that high then there's no nominees that year. if only one movie gets that high then the next highest score is allowed in.

so obviously that's what happened here, and clearly man or muppet already won this category going in.

but if you ask me that's a seriously screwed up system. i mean, this was a better than average year for songs in movies, and almost NONE of them were good enough to be nominated? that's ridiculous. they need to rehaul that category again

personally, i thought life's a happy song AND pictures in my head were better than man or muppet. and i'm sort of disappointed because jason segel is going to be the one who performs this, right? and walter i guess. but the other muppets won't even get to be there

 

[panmanthe2nd]

It's great that it's nominated! It would be excellent if it does win, but even if it doesn't a Oscar nomination seems to help DVD sales a bit. And better DVD sales means more hope of Disney doing other Muppet stuff.