SCL Asks Academy To Reinstate Best Song Performances

The Association of Composers and Treasury, whose members include many great songs and composers book, asked the Academy of Photo and Sciences to reconsider resolutionDeclared the previous day Nominations It has been announced, to get rid of offers Five songs of candidate At the Oscar for this year.

As I mentioned the deadline, the Academy is making changes to the presentation this year, while others are in a direct response to the effect of destroyed La fires, and also to find ways to honor directors with ways to uniqueness of their honorable achievements. In a letter sent to members on January 22, Bill Kramer, CEO of Ampas, said, “Also this year, the best offer of the original song category will happen away from live performances and will focus on songwriters. We will celebrate their art through personal ideas of the teams That brings these songs to life. We will think about recent events with highlighting strength, creativity and optimism that defines Los Angeles and our industry. There is a lot in the store, including the strong musical moments that link the history of the film rich in its bold and inspiring future. ”

In a letter to the Ambas Board of Directors and the seventy -seventh Oscar producers, the President of the Scl Irwin said: “Our members, who number more than 4000 in more than 80 countries around the world, disappoint, including the majority of the Music Branch at the Morme Picure, the decision to eliminate
Song offers for the Academy Award at the Academy Awards 97. Song authors and composers face many challenges in the current climate, including everything starting from the perceived payments of kings through the flow of services to the theft of their intellectual property to enrich the “large technology” in the curtain training from Definite artificial intelligence. The Academy of Arts and Photo Sciences, and a prize like Oscar, has always enlarged and honored the work of talented craftsmen, but this decision to exclude the songs shows just another example of reducing the value of music, and creators.

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Although not every Oscar includes the original songs, most of them have it. Ambass said that it is usually left to the producers of any specific ceremony to make this decision. This year’s crop includes a 16 -time candidate Diane WarrenOscar winner, Elon John, and two prominent songs from Emilia péRis Celina Gomez and Zoe Saldana are performed.

The decision was made before the AmPas producers knew any of the 14 contestants List of brief Oscar It will end with the five nominations.

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Below is the entire message:

January 31, 2025

Dear Governors and producers of Ambass, an Academy Awards 97,

I am the president of the Association of composers and lyrical (SCL), the leading organization of professional song book and composers who work in other visual films and media. All the Oscar nominated song book, as in most years, are members of Scl. Our members, who number more than 4000 in more than 80 countries around the world, including the majority of the Motion Pictture Academy Music branch, are disappointed by the decision to eliminate the songs of the Oscars nominated in the Academy Awards 97. Song and composer authors face many One of the challenges in the current climate, including everything, from the perceived payments of the kings by flowing services to theft of their intellectual property to enrich the “great technology” in the guise of training for artificial intelligence. The Academy of Arts and Photo Sciences, and a prize like Oscar, has always enlarged and honored the work of talented craftsmen, but this decision to exclude the songs shows just another example of reducing the value of music and creators. What should be an opportunity to raise our craft, through an academy charged with the importance of music for Motion Picure’s stories. Performing the creation of the original song author. To eliminate the candidate’s offers is the silence of the song book.

We understand that there are reasons behind this decision, but I understand that there was no discussion with the music branch. The songs and shows this year will represent a variety of artists, including former Oscar winners, Elton John, alongside Brande Carlyle, Clément Ducle & Camille, and Adrian Questada & Abraham Alexander, in addition to 16 times Diane Warren Oscar. The promotion of these song shows will undoubtedly attract a larger audience. But more importantly, while Los Angeles, the home of filmmaking, entire societies and many people affected, have lost the ability to inspire her and recover-a message that is reflected in the songs of Oscar candidates …

The journey is from the eight three
At all times you can surrender and surrender
The times you did not know if you were strong enough
I still passed
It is the trip
It is to reach the place you will go
Go through hell, but I will still go

It has not been too late from Alon John: It has not been too late yet
Well, it was not too late
For a wide open list
A kiss from a stranger
One thousand dates
You are an iron man
To hell with the gate of heaven
It is not a moment very soon
If not
It is not too late

Fly like a bird of singing
I pray
These broken bones will heal
Only if the walls can talk
To tell you the pain I feel
That day
I will draw a thousand skies
The world weight aside
Just leave everything behind

Mai Kamino [English lyrics] From Emilia Perez
I want to love myself
Love, yes, my life
Love, yes, what I feel
I want to love myself
I love myself completely
I love myself as I am

With the quality of talents collected for production Academy Awards®, there should be a way to accommodate even the brief deportations of the songs that were nominated during the show. I urge you with respect to reconsider your decision and let the songs provide hope and inspiration for the audience they do in their films.

Thank you for your time and look.

sincerely,
Ashley Erwin
President of the Association of Composer and Lyric