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"The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart", Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right.
The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.
Until the Academy Awards for 1944 (awarded in 1945) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. For the 1944 awards, 14 songs were nominated. Since then, only five are nominated each year, except for 1988, 2005 and 2008, when only three were nominated.[4]
Though this is one of the few Oscar categories where one film can receive multiple nominations, the first to do so was Fame in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and Enchanted. Dreamgirls and Enchanted lost on every nomination: An Inconvenient Truth original song " I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from Dreamgirls, while "Falling Slowly" from Once defeated all three of Enchanted's nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs nominated in the Best Original Song category in one year.[5]
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song
2009 (82nd) Nominees, Winner "The Weary Kind"
- " Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog - Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" - The Princess and the Frog - Music and Lyrics: Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" - Paris 36 - Music: Reinhardt Wagner, Lyrics: Frank Thomas
- " Take It All" - Nine - Music and Lyrics: Maury Yeston
- "The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart - Music and Lyrics: Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb. Jeff Bridges plays Bad Blake, a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist named Jean, portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. Supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Beth Grant and child actor Jack Nation. Bridges, Farrell, and Duvall also sing in the film. The film's main character is based on a combination of Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard. Cooper initially wanted to do a biopic on Haggard but found the rights to his life story were too difficult to obtain. The novel on which the film was based was actually inspired by country singer Hank Thompson. The film has been described as "half Urban Cowboy, "half The Wrestler".
Filming took place in late 2008 in Albuquerque, Galisteo, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as in Los Angeles, California. Producer and songwriter T-Bone Burnett, who also worked on the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, composed original music for the film. The film was produced for $7 million by Country Music Television, and was originally acquired by Paramount Vantage for a direct-to-video release,[2][3] but was later purchased for theatrical distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures.[4] It opened in limited release in the U.S. on December 16, 2009.[5]
The album entitled Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 2009 to accompany the film. The 16-track album contains many songs written by T Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton and Ryan Bingham, but also by John Goodwin, Bob Neuwirth, Sam Hopkins, Gary Nicholson, Townes Van Zandt, Sam Philips, Greg Brown, Billy Joe Shaver and Eddy Shaver
The songs are performed by various artists including actors Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell and Robert Duvall, as well as singers Ryan Bingham (who also sings the theme song "The Weary Kind"), Buck Owens, The Louvin Brothers, Lightnin' Hopkins, Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt and Sam Philips.
"The Weary Kind"
"The Weary Kind" (full title "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)") is a country song written by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham for the award-winning Crazy Heart, a 2009 film directed by Scott Cooper starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Colin Farrell and Bridges perform renditions of the song in the film. Bingham and his Dead Horses serve as Bridges' backing band in the film as well.[1].
The official version on soundtrack album Crazy Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is sung by Ryan Bingham. Jeff Bridges sang a live version during his interview with Peter Travers for the show on ABC News Now.[2]
[edit] Awards and Nominations
- On January 17, 2010, Bingham was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards.
- On March 7, 2010, the song won for Best Original Song[3] at the 82nd Academy Awards, while Jeff Bridges won the award for Best Actor, and Maggie Gyllenhaal received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weary_Kind
The Lyrics
The Weary Kind
Your heart's on the loose
You rolled them seven's with nothing lose
And this ain't no place for the weary kind
You called all your shots
Shooting 8 ball at the corner truck stop
Somehow this don't feel like home anymore
And this ain't no place for the weary kind
And this ain't no place to lose your mind
And this ain t no place to fall behind
Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try
Your body aches
Playing your guitar and sweating out the hate
The days and the nights all feel the same
Whiskey has been a thorn in your side
and it doesn't forget
the highway that calls for your heart inside
And this ain't no place for the weary kind
And this ain't no place to lose your mind
And this ain't no place to fall behind
Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try
Your lovers won't kiss
It's too damn far from your fingertips
You are the man that ruined her world
Your heart's on the loose
You rolled them seven's with nothing lose
And this ain't no place for the weary kind
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Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
Have a great day,
Tommy
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