Celeb News: Mary J. Blige "saddened" over Oscar snub

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Mary J. Blige has a fruitful amount of well-deserved awards -- including nine Grammy Awards for her Billboard chart-stoppers. But unfortunately, Blige will not have the chance to add an Oscar to that list this year.

Although the category normally sees four to five nominations, the 84th Annual Academy Awards has only two songs in the running for Best Original Song: "Real in Rio" from "Rio" and "Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets."

Blige's theme song "The Living Proof," for the film "The Help," appeared to be a frontrunner in the race, however the singer along with other speculated contenders such as Madonna and Elton John were astonishingly not nominated.

Shortly after the nominations were announced, MJB took to Twitter to express her grief over the snub. "I'm so thankful for true fans like you all. It saddens me & feels like the Academy is being mean. 2 only nominate 2 of the 5 slots is……." She continued to re-tweet reactions from her fans who shared her sadness.

"The Help" did manage to nab nominations in big name categories such as Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.

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Green

The Academy is so shady. They basically told that only those 2 nominees were worthy of nominations while the rest didn't

iamvladd

That was the snub of death.

Kedzie53

I feel bad for her. Her song was actually good.

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the singer along with other speculated contenders such as Madonna and Elton John were astonishingly not nominated.

Madonna wasn't eligible.

DG1

This is why she wasn't nominated. She failed to garner a rating of 8.25 or higher for the song from the voters...

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To determine the Original Song nominees, the Academy's Music Branch (a group of 236 musicians including Bryan Adams and Eric Clapton) convenes every year in early January to screen clips of all the shortlisted songs and assign each a rating from 6 to 10 (including half points). A song must receive an average rating of 8.25 or higher to become a nominee. If no song achieves an 8.25-point rating, then there are no nominees. (This has never happened.) If only one song achieves an 8.25-point rating, then it and the next-highest-rated song become the nominees. Which means that either both “Man or Muppet” and “Real in Rio” averaged 8.25 points or more, or only one of them did.

They have very strict rules, but I don't see why she couldn't get that rating when the 2 songs nominated got in