The Academy Releases List of Oscar-Eligible Original Songs

Here we have it; the list of original songs eligible for the 2010 Oscars, and it seems to serve as greater confirmation that this has been a weak year for movies. Luckily, thanks to Academy rules, they only need a minimum of two song nominations; which means we won’t see “Welcome to Burlesque” get any smug recognition just because they needed to fill a slot. (Although I wouldn’t put it past them to vote it in for real – remember when “Hard Out There For a Pimp” won?) Of course if the Academy doesn’t find enough merit in any of the songs, the category won’t see the light of the Kodak Theater, but that doesn’t seem to be too likely since the list includes two Disney animated features’ themes (and one of those

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