Talking of which, any Radiohead obsessives disappointed that the band's Johnny Greenwood didn't get an Oscar nomination for his soundtrack to the movie 'There Will Be Blood', well, the Oscar people have explained to the press that he wasn't actually eligible for the 'Original Soundtrack' award because his soundtrack wasn't original - ie completely created for the movie.
The soundtrack included bits Greenwood had actually created for a BBC project, plus some stuff from an Estonian composer called Arvo Part and others from a Brahms violin concerto. Asked about the omission of Greenwood's well received soundtrack from the nominations list, Charles Bernstein of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences told reporters: "The Oscar is given for the best original score - 'original' meaning written for the picture - and the majority of the music in 'There Will Be Blood' was not eligible because it was not written for the picture".
The song 'Falling Slowly' written by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, which was shortlisted in the Best Original Song category even though it had appeared of the duo's 'Swell Season' album, made it to the nomination list because it was created specifically for the movie in which it also appeared, 'Once', and the film's director John Carney wrote a letter stressing that fact to the Academy ahead of nominations.
So that's that cleared up. Phew, I can sleep tonight now.