The Robbie Williams track “Forbidden Street” from “Higher Man,” shortlisted earlier this week for finest unique track, has been disqualified, Selection has discovered.
The track, insiders report, “incorporates materials from an present track that was not written for the movie” and so has been deemed ineligible for Oscar.
Academy guidelines state that the phrases and music of any track submitted for awards consideration have to be “unique and written particularly for the movement image.”
The melody of “Forbidden Street” comprises marked similarities to that of “I Obtained a Identify,” the Charles Fox-Norman Gimbel track carried out by Jim Croce within the 1973 movie “The Final American Hero.” Coincidentally, Fox is one among three governors of the Academy’s music department.
A letter went out to the 400-plus members of the music department this morning. Reportedly the similarities simply got here to the eye of the department govt committee this week, and the choice to drop the track got here yesterday afternoon.
This implies the unique track shortlist will likely be trimmed to 14 titles from the earlier 15. Disqualifications like this usually don’t end in a “alternative” track. Music department voters will select from the remaining 14 titles when voting for Oscar nominations begins Jan. 8.
