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“Crazy Heart” score ineligible for Academy Awards
Those hoping for Oscar gold for the late Stephen Bruton and T. Bone Burnett’s acclaimed score for the Jeff Bridges-starring “Crazy Heart” will be disappointed to hear Fox Searchlight has opted out of submitting the film’s original country western compositions for consideration. The Wrap reports that the score would have run afoul of Academy regulations forbidding works by multiple composers. A similar rule resulted in the ineligibility of the scores for “Where the Wild Things Are” (by Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O and Carter Burwell) and “Funny People” (by Michael Andrews and Jason Schwartzman).
The news comes as a disappointment, particularly as a posthumous Oscar would have been a nice nod to Bruton, a well-known movie fan who especially would have appreciated an Academy Award nomination. “Crazy Heart” is still eligible for the best original song category, though — which means former Austinite Ryan Bingham’s Golden Globe-nominated “The Weary Kind” still has a shot.
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