According to the LA Times:

You can not only forget about Beyonce Knowles winning an Oscar for best actress this year. (If you haven't heard, a certain ingenue keeps upstaging her throughout "Dreamgirls." And in the race for best comedy/musical actress at the Globes, she's up against a real devil — Meryl Streep — who knows a lot about winning that award.) Now it looks like Beyonce won't win an Oscar as a songwriter either — for "Listen," one of the original new tunes added to the original Broadway score. Officially, she's listed as one of the song's four writers, but the motion-picture academy only permits three names — max — as a credit. To see the specific language of its Rule 16 — CLICK HERE!

Oscar Rule 16 is fairly new, by the way...However, the academy does limit the number of producers who get credit for best picture to three in its Rule 17 CLICK HERE.

The Oscars' songwriting branch has decided to qualify only Henry Krieger, Anne Preven and Scott Cutler for writing "Listen." No explanation is given for why Beyonce is excluded over the others. Is this just one of those cases of where the singer insisted upon having her name added to credits as part of her performance deal? In media interviews, she's often said that she was truly involved in its songwriting. Apparently, not to the extent as her three collaborators, according to the Oscars.

Why is Beyonce being left out? Well here's some insight on the songwriting process...

Here's an article about the writing of "Crazy in Love," which earned Beyonce and cohorts the Grammy for best R&B song of 2003, an award bestowed to songwriters. CLICK HERE to read what her actual involvement was in its composition. In fact, it notes that she wrote the song's bridge section.

And with the rule being so strict on the number of writers that are able to get the Oscar statuette, I guess the person with the least amount of involvement had to be left out.

Another example is the song Resentment on B'Day, we all know that the song was recorded prior to Beyonce, however she has writing credit for the song, and if you listen to all the versions, you'll notice that the only change to the song is her changing the lyric "I know you're probably thinkin'/what's up with me" to "I know you're probably thinkin'/what's up with B"...

Unfortunately, the Best Actress is going to be even harder to nab, if nominated. Nominations will be announced January 23rd.

I still love you B! Plus we still have the Golden Globes!!

Labels: Beyonce, Dreamgirls