Arthur Smith – Golden Globe shocker
There have been some genuine surprises in the music categories at the Golden Globes over the years. Here are some of the biggest, listed in reverse chronological order. This year’s Globes are set to air Sunday on NBC.
[Here are a few of the “surprises” from the article. Read the whole article for others…]2014: U2’s “Ordinary Love” from ‘Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’ won as Best Original Song. It beat one of the biggest movie songs in years — “Let It Go” from ‘Frozen.’ (Another, even bigger movie song, “Happy” from ‘Despicable Me 2,’ wasn’t even nominated for a Golden Globe.) “Let It Go” went on to win the Oscar.
2013: Alex Ebert’s score for the box-office flop ‘All Is Lost’ won as Best Original Score, beating Steven Price’s score for the blockbuster ‘Gravity.’ Price’s score went on to win the Oscar. Ebert’s score wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar.
1973: The rollicking “Dueling Banjos” from ‘Deliverance’ was nominated for Best Original Song. Why was that a surprise? The piece was an instrumental. And it wasn’t written for the movie. Arthur Smith composed it (as “Feudin’ Banjos”) in 1955. (The Oscar went to the dull ballad “The Morning After” from ‘The Poseidon Adventure.’)
1970: “Jean” from ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ won as Best Original Song. Rod McKuen’s tender ballad had been a big hit for Oliver. The surprise is that it beat out an even bigger hit, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.” B.J. Thomas’s version of the latter song (from ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’) spent four weeks at #1 in January 1970.
1965: Veteran composer Dimitri Tiomkin clobbered ‘Mary Poppins.’ Tiomkin’s forgettable title song to the John Wayne movie ‘Circus World’ won as Best Original Song. “Chim Chim Cher-ee” didn’t even rate a nomination. ‘Poppins’ was nominated in the Original Score category, but lost to Tiomkin’s ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire.’ (‘Poppins’ went on to win Oscars in both categories.)
1962: “Town Without Pity” from the movie of the same name won as Best Original Song. The Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington ballad was a hit for Gene Pitney. Oscar voters went with “Moon River” from ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ which is one of the most famous movie songs of all time. The Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer classic also won a Grammy as Song of the Year.
By Paul Grein
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