Mar
8
Ryan Bingham photo courtesy of UMG Nashville.
The Golden Globe Awards are often hailed as the movie industry’s warm up for the Oscars, and it certainly worked that way for Ryan Bingham.
When “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song in January, Ryan was off chatting at the bar, leaving co-writer T Bone Burnett to deliver a somewhat bewildered acceptance speech.
Ryan learned an important lesson for Oscar night: stay in your seat. And he did exactly that on Sunday, until “The Weary Kind” won again. Ryan and T Bone shared the podium at the Kodak Theatre, though Ryan did most of the talking, including a sweet dedication to his wife, Anna Axster.
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Feb
3
Ryan Bingham photo courtesy of UMG Nashville.
If you watched the Golden Globe Awards this year, you likely recall a flustered T Bone Burnett stalling for time just a bit to let Ryan Bingham find his way to the podium when “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” swiped the honor for Best Original Song.
Eventually, T Bone made the speech himself, and the Golden Globes moved on with no sight nor sound on television from Ryan.
Ryan gets a second chance to get it right at the Oscar Awards. “The Weary Kind” was nominated Tuesday by the Motion Picture Academy for Best Original Song, and it’s doubtful anyone will have trouble locating him this time around.
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Dec
16
T Bone Burnett photo courtesy of tboneburnett.com.
One of the oddities of Hollywood’s awards process is that films that haven’t been released to the general public can still secure major nominations, which pretty much guarantees them getting attention from ticket buyers who might not have gone otherwise.
And that might be at work with Crazy Heart, a movie starring Jeff Bridges that opens on a limited basis Wednesday. Jeff, who sings in the film in his role as a washed-up country star, secured a Golden Globe nomination Tuesday for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture. The music that plays over the closing credits, “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart),” likewise snared a nod for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for songwriters Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.
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