No Oscar nomination for Trent Reznor this year. The National, Jónsi, She & Him, and all the other indie types who made the Best Original Song shortlist also didn't hear their names called when the…   Read Story »

The show's producers said none of the nominees were invited to sing at the March 7 awards ceremony. Randy Newman's totally wry and bemused about this. More at EW, including a clip of Elliott Smith's…   Read Story »

The Academy has selected 63 songs that will contend for Best Song nominations for next year's ceremony, and among them are songs not written by Randy Newman. Paul McCartney and U2 -- "you may have…   Read Story »

The little-documentary-that-could The Story Of Anvil, about the band that was like a "real life Spinal Tap" right down to having a drummer named Robb Reiner, stole everyone's heart this past year.…   Read Story »

Videogum liveblogged and livetweeted the Academy Awards last night, including the red carpet pre-show and Barbara Walters special, and Gabe did not kill himself. Success! Slumdog Millionaire won…   Read Story »

The self-proclaimed "old fart" had agreed to perform his award-nominated Wall-E song "Down To Earth" until he was told he'd have to cut it to one-minute and fit into an Oscar-song medley. Songwriters…   Read Story »

The only thing more boring and less dramatic than the Academy Awards is coverage of the Academy Awards. David Carr's Carpetbagger blog, in which he consistently refers to himself as The Bagger…   Read Story »

Of course, No Country for Old Men was the big winner last night, with four HUGE prizes (Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture). Great job, guys. The film…   Read Story »

As far as predicting Best Song awards go, there's little conventional wisdom to rely on aside from Randy Newman probably being nominated, and a song you probably don't care about winning. Not so at…   Read Story »

Our look into Jonny Greenwood's odds at winning the Oscar started by presciently realizing, "first he'll have to get nominated." Of course we figured he was a shoo-in, and of course we were wrong.…   Read Story »