Academy Disqualifies The Dark Knight Score

Academy Disqualifies The Dark Knight Score November 13, 2008 6:31 pm

Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Batman, Movies, Music, News, Soundtracks, The Dark Knight.
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thedarkknightsoundtrack-111308 Because the films music cue sheet lists five names as composers, the soundtrack to The Dark Knight has been disqualified by the executive committee of the Academy music branch. Formal letters will be sent out to composers Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, two who collaborated on the music, this week. Their previous collaboration, Batman Begins, was disqualified in 2005 for the same reasons.

Sources inside the committee said that the big issue was the fact that five names were listed as composers on the music cue sheet, the official studio document that specifies every piece of music (along with its duration and copyright owner) in the film.

Zimmer said, in an interview with Variety prior to this week’s Acad action, that listing multiple names on the cue sheet was a way of financially rewarding parts of the music team who helped make the overall work successful. (Performing-rights societies like ASCAP and BMI use the cue sheet to distribute royalties to composers.)

Source: Variety

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