Sotiris wrote:
D82 wrote:
Do you think submitting two songs has damaged its chances of being nominated as Alan feared?
No, I don't think so. Just last year, La La Land got two song nominations and won. I think the music branch at the Oscars has turned against Menken. Maybe it's because they think he has too many Oscars already. Maybe it's because they think he's not relevant anymore.
I didn’t think it either, but I was trying to understand why the song wasn’t nominated. I thought the music branch actually liked Alan’s work, as evidenced by the many nominations they have given him through the years, but at the same time they have treated him quite badly with those rule changes clearly made against him. I knew about the first two cases, but I didn’t know that they also refused to activate the Best Original Musical category in 2005. That was really unfair. So maybe you are right and they have turned against him.
Disney's Divinity wrote:
Looking through the awards just now, the only things that I find shocking are Newsies not getting any notice, Hunchback not even getting a Song nom, "I See the Light" losing to that craptastic TS3 song (I hated Tangled at the time and even I thought it was robbed), and now score, but mostly "Evermore" for this.
I think they didn’t nominate any song from
Newsies because the film was a failure, both critically and financially. It did win something, though, the Razzie Award for Worst Original Song.

Thankfully, the film’s music finally got the praise it deserved when the Broadway musical premiered.
Disney's Divinity wrote:
Well, if this couldn't get a nom for something phenomenal like "Evermore," I don't expect anything for the Aladdin and Mermaid LA re-makes.
Yeah, now I don’t expect it either. Maybe with
Disenchanted, but after this I don't have high hopes.