A music from the Robbie Williams biopic “Higher Man” has been disqualified from the Oscars after the music landed on the shortlist of 15 Finest Authentic Music contenders final week.
The music, “Forbidden Highway,” which was written by Williams, Sacha Skarbek, and Freddy Wexler, was discovered to have included “materials from an current music that was not written for this movie,” in accordance with a notice despatched to members of the Academy’s Music Department from the department’s govt committee (and obtained by IndieWire).
The chief committee reviewed supplies for the music and decided it doesn’t meet eligibility for this 12 months’s Oscars and was deemed ineligible for award consideration.
An insider tells IndieWire the Academy’s resolution is closing with out the possibility for an enchantment and one other music won’t be added on the shortlist to switch it. Voters within the class will as a substitute select from the remaining 14 songs on the record as soon as voting kicks off on January 8.
“It is a resolution that each honors our guidelines and protects the particular nature of the Authentic Music and Rating classes,” the manager department wrote within the letter despatched to the 400+ music department members on Friday morning.
“Forbidden Highway,” an acoustic ballad (take heed to it right here), has a melody that’s just like “I Received a Identify,” a music carried out by Jim Croce for the 1973 movie “The Final American Hero.” Charles Fox, who co-wrote “I Received a Identify” with Norman Gimbel, is likely one of the three governors within the Academy’s music department.
Reps for the songwriters and for Paramount, which distributes “Higher Man,” didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
“Higher Man,” which is a musical biopic on the lifetime of British pop icon Robbie Williams, however reimagines him as a CGI chimpanzee, opens in restricted launch on Christmas Day and nationwide on January 10. The soundtrack for the movie, which comprises “Forbidden Highway,” will probably be made out there digitally on December 27.