The Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has announced that it’s rescinding the Best Authentic Track Oscar™ nomination for “Alone But No longer On my own,” from the film Alone Yet No longer On my own, citing flawed lobbying by means of the song’s composer, Bruce Broughton. There might be no replacement nominee selected, in line with the Academy.

From AMPAS’ press unencumber:

The decision was once caused by the discovery that Broughton, a former Governor and current Tune Branch govt committee member, had emailed contributors of the department to make them aware of his submission during the nominations voting length.

“No matter how well-intentioned the verbal exchange, the usage of one’s place as a former governor and present govt committee member to for my part promote one’s own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage,” stated Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President.

The press release goes on to explain the traditional nominating process, whereby “all 240 voting individuals of the Tune Department received a Reminder Record of works submitted in the Original Track class and a DVD replica of the music clips with film and track title only (more information together with composer and lyricist just isn’t provided),” and were “asked to observe the clips and then vote in the order of their desire for no longer greater than 5 nominees within the category.”

The song used to be performed through Joni Eareckson Tada, whose beaming face graced the espresso tables and bookshelves of apparently each Evangelical Christian family in the late 70s, from the duvet of her inspirational autobiography Joni. As a youngster, she was once paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident, however overcame the disability to develop into an finished artist and creator. The bad information is that it’s unimaginable to inform how smartly the song would have performed with out Broughton’s thumb on the dimensions, however the publicity from the nomination, and its rescission, might raise the movie’s wider liberate in June.

Unless then, right here’s the music, as performed by way of Joni:

(h/t HNTP)