‘Dark Knight’ Music, Jonny Greenwood’s ‘There Will Be Blood’ Score Nominated For 2008 Grammy Awards; ‘Wall-E,’ ‘Juno’ & ‘Walk Hard’ Also Grab Nods

Nobody gives a flying fuck about the Grammys, right? The antiquated music awards have been out of touch for some time now, but we guess they’re trying to slowly become more of the zeitgeist and may have made some steps forward by nominating Lil Wayne eight times this year for The Carter III (homeboy, we dig you, but drop the autotune already).

But we digress, we don’t really care about the Grammys anyhow, but there are a few categories that we do keep tabs on.

The biggest news is Grammy attempting to right some Oscar travesties. Two amazing soundtrack score both disqualified over Academy rule nonsense, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s thrilling and discordant “The Dark Knight” score and Jonny Greenwood’s haunting, “There Will Be Blood” compositions were nominated for Best Score Soundtrack Album. That strong category also gives deserving nods to Ramin Djawadi for “Iron Man,” Thomas Newman for “Wall-E” and John Williams for ‘Indy 4’ (ok that one not so much).

Nominated in the Best Song From A Movie Picture category is Peter Gabriel for his excellent “Wall-E” song “Down To Earth,” the “Walk Hard” theme sung by John C. Reilly, a John Mayer song from “The Bucket List” and two noms for “Enchanted” including one song sung by Amy Adams.

Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep have the possibilities of adding Grammy prizes to their award mantles, the two actors singing was nominated in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for “Mama Mia!” and ‘Sweeney Todd,’ along with “Juno,” “August Rush” and “American Gangster.”

“Wall-E” grabbed another nomination in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category for the song “Define Dancing” by Peter Gabriel & composer Thomas Newman making it three noms in total. Let’s also not forget that the unofficial movie trailer song of the year, M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” (from the “Pineapple Express” trailer and also featured in “Slumdog Millionaire”) was nominated for Record Of The Year (that means song, not album, Grammy people are old, forgive them).

Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture
* The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers
* Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull – John Williams, composer
* Iron Man -Ramin Djawadi, composer
* There Will Be Blood – Jonny Greenwood, composer
* Wall-E – Thomas Newman, composer

Best Song Written For Motion Picture
* “Down To Earth” – Peter Gabriel (“Wall-E”)
* “Ever Ever After” – Carrie Underwood (“Enchanted”)
* “Say” – John Mayer (“The Bucket List”)
* “That’s How You Know” – Amy Adams (“Enchanted”)
* “Walk Hard” – John C. Reilly (“Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story”)

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture
* American Gangster – (Various Artists)
* August Rush- (Various Artists)
* Juno (Various Artists)
* Mamma Mia! – Meryl Streep (& Various Artists)
* Sweeney Todd — The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street -(Various Artists)

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