"It's All Our Fault" - From ScoreCast Online

A fabulous and topical article that all my fellow media composers (and others, really) should read:

And the Oscar goes to....

Michael Giacchino for "UP!".

Even though Jennifer Lopez and Sam Worthington butchered his name many times during their presentation for "Best Original Score" at the Academy Awards on Sunday night, there was no denying who won the award once Michael Giacchino got up and took the statue in his hands. With a simple speech about how kids who have dreams of entering into the entertainment industry should never listen to those who say it is "a waste of time", Giacchino accepted his award with grace and respect, and then went and sat back down in his seat for the rest of the show.

With a contentious race in many categories, including Best Original Score, it didn't take long before I was seeing people on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Tumblr light into Giacchino, assessing his win as a "fraud", a "mistake", a "travesty", "non-deserving", and even "political" (Political? WTF? Really?) Since the awards broadcast, I've even received several emails from people in our community asking me what I thought of "someone like Giacchino winning the award up against Horner and Hans".

"Someone like Giacchino?" What does that even mean?

More after the jump....

http://networkedblogs.com/102Se

Giacchino's a friggin' genius! Its about time he won an Oscar! An amazing story from an amazing artist indeed.