Note: this is not a flamebait thread, please do not engage in a flame war.
The
rules for the Academy Awards with respect to Best Original Song are clear:
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D. Only the principal composer(s) or songwriter(s) responsible for the conception and execution of
the work as a whole shall be eligible for an award. Expressly excluded from eligibility are all of the
following:
1. music supervisors
2. partial contributors (i.e., any writer not responsible for the overall design of the work)
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3. contributors working on speculation
4. producers and/or arrangers not responsible for the creation of the original song or score
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As you can read above, partial contributors and arrangers are NOT meant to be nominated.
And yet that's exactly what it seems that Gaga,
according to Diane herself, did:
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“When I called her and played her the song, it was more of a somber ballad, but she really made it epic,” Warren says of the best original song nominee. “She made it hers and took it to another level by arranging the **** out of it and singing the **** out of it.”
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Diane had clearly already written the song and Gaga obviously changed things, but people who make changes to an already written song are not meant to be nominees.
Is Gaga's Oscar nomination illegitimate, according to the official Oscar rules and what Diane Warren herself has revealed about Gaga's contributions?
Discuss respectfully
