Oscars 2025: Let’s Give Some Made-Up Oscars To Movies the Oscars Won’t Give Oscars To

Corrollary-ing Abe here: The “I Got a Name”/“Forbidden Road” flap points to the need for an Oscar category honoring filmmakers’ creative use of non-original music. It’s been 70 years since Richard Brooks put Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” in The Blackboard Jungle, turning a then-obscure pop song into a radio hit and arguably paving the way for 2001, American Graffiti, Pulp Fiction, and approximately ten million other great films rendered indelible by their makers’…