Grammy & The Movies

Ive already trashed Oscar for not throwing a Best Song nomination to Eddie Vedders Guaranteed from Into the Wild while finding room for 1-2-3 songs from Enchanted and a sappy ballad from the saptacular August Rush. Worse, it ignored Jonny Greenwoods landmark score from There Will Be Blood because the Radiohead innovator referenced other music. Apparently sampling is not a term the Academy of Motion Pictures Farts & Biases has ever heard.

With the Grammy awards this Sunday, its time to see how music people do with judging movie music.

Here are the Grammy nominees for BEST MOVIE SONG:

Falling Slowly (from Once)/Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, songwriters

Guaranteed (from Into the Wild)/Eddie Vedder, songwriter

Love You I Do (from Dreamgirls)/Siedah Garrett & Henry Krieger, songwriters

The Song of the Heart (from Happy Feet)/Prince Rogers Nelson, songwriter

You Know My Name (from Casino Royale)/David Arnold & Chris Cornell, songwriters

Jeez, talk about time warps! Dreamgirls, Happy Feet and Casino Royale came out two years ago.

Put that stupidity down to Grammys dragass eligbility time frame, which is Oct. 1, 2006, to Sept. 30, 2007. That leaves Falling Slowly, the emo hit from Once the only song Oscar and Grammy have in common. But Im giving Grammy points for including Eddie Vedder, whose songs for Into the Wild helped raise that films already high-level game. Vedder, after winning a Grammy in 1996, famously said, I dont know what this means. I dont think it means anything. Hmm.

Moving on to the BEST MOVIE SCORE, here are Grammys picks:

Babel/Gustavo Santaolalla, composer

Blood Diamond/James Newton Howard, composer

The Departed/Howard Shore, composer

Happy Feet/John Powell, composer

Pans Labyrinth/Javier Navarrete, composer

Ratatouille/Michael Giacchino, composer

Double jeez. Only one new movie in the bunch Ratatouille, which is a solid choice. Maybe next year, time eligibility rules will let in Jonny Greenwoods There Will Be Blood and Dario Marianellis tonally experimental score for Atonement, which even tin-earred Oscar found the balls to nominate. If so, congrats are in order. In the meantime, can some friendo find a way to wipe the mold off of Oscar and Grammy rules and recognize the importance of music to movies in a timely manner?