Academy disqualifies "Swan," "Grit" scores

Based on their predominant use of pre-existing themes, the Academy has disqualified "Black Swan" and "True Grit" from competing in the Best Original Score category. Further, because they are largely driven by songs instead of original compositions (despite the inclusion OF original scores), "The Kids Are All Right" and "The Fighter" are also ineligible.

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Composer Clint Mansell's "Black Swan" score, as largely adapted from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," and Carter Burwell's "True Grit," as mostly based on 19th-century hymns, are not sufficiently "original," the committee ruled last week.