Ha! Apparently the Academy agreed with me that the Best Original Song nomination for "Alone, Yet Not Alone," from the movie of the same name (above) that no one has ever heard of, was a suspicious and embarrassing error, because they have now rescinded the nomination entirely. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Board of Governors convened last night to discuss stripping songwriter Bruce Broughton of his Oscar nod, and has now officially done it, declaring him as having "illegally lobbied" the music branch and used his own status as a former governor to influence others to vote for his song. Well, this little dust-up probably assures that more people will hear it than ever would have anyway, so despite Broughton's apparent "devastation," he can at least be happy about that.
