"Falling Slowly" from ONCE May Be DQed — Page 2

It's happened before, roquat. Even with Best Picture nominees, when they have a slew of credited producers. It's even gotten "ugly" when they have to sort it out amongst themselves and determine who gets it and who doesn't.

I think they should have to submit the potential nominees first... but often they can't agree and wait until the work gets the nod... THEN they duke it out for one of the spots.

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It's gotta be awkward! Measuring each others contributions to the project "by the yard," as it were.

At least the Academy doesn't try to decide for them. It really is up to the people who did the work to make the decision.

...and I agree that 9,000 people shouldn't be up for producing a Best Picture or writing a Best Song. Some of those credits are more about maintaining creative relationships, or honoring clauses in contracts, than they are about the actual work. So the Academy caps them off at a certain number. And the nominees need to figure the rest out on their own, at that point.

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Re: "Accidentally In Love" from Shrek 2, in interviews Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows said that he wrote the song for the film. It's just that CGI movies take so long to be made that the Crows album was probably released during the filmmaking process, and they included the song because it's an awesome song.

I know that's not an issue in this discussion, but I wanted to address it.

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