When the Oscar nominations came out Tuesday, the world's hipsters let out a massive, "WTF?" upon learning that Jonny Greenwood's music for "There Will Be Blood" was not one of the five original score nominees. Those geezers, people cried (maybe even people such as me-self). Anyway, now comes word from Charles Bernstein, the head of the Academy's music branch, that Greenwood's score wasn't ever eligible in the first place. According to the Associated Press' Christy Lemire, "some of the score came from a performance Greenwood had done for the BBC, titled 'Popcorn Superhet Receiver.' Some of it came from Estonian composer Arvo Pärt; still other parts came from a Brahms violin concerto."
Apparently, Jonny was too busy changing the music-biz sales paradigm to tell us.
