I watched a bit of the 77th annual Academy Awards last night. I noticed that one of the nominee’s for the category “Achievement in music written for motion pictures ” was Al Otro Lado Del Río. It was heralded as the first nominee in that category that was entirely spanish. It turns out that it won the award. It was a neat song, and (based on the other nominees) quite deserving of the award (even if Antonio Banderas couldn’t quite do it justice on the program… it was saved by Carlos Santana).
However, what bothers me is that the Academy has no problem nominating a spanish song (and… it appears.. a French song). However the primary argument for not allowing “The Passion of the Christ” to be nominated was that it was considered a foriegn language film. The requirement, if I recall correctly, was that 80% of the dialogue had to be in english.
That seems a great injustice.