A number of critically acclaimed composers will not be a part of the Oscar race this year, The Wrap reports. Brian Eno, who recently scored Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, is not eligible simply due to the reason that the composer never was submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration. According to the Warp article by Steve Pond, Eno “simply felt that he didn’t have time to submit the required paperwork and submit to the type of publicity campaign necessary” to run for an Oscar nomination.

Other scores that have been judged ineligible by the academy’s music branch are Carter Burwell’s and Karen O.’s Where the Wild Things Are and T. Bone Burnett’s and Stephen Bruton’s Crazy Heart, both of them early critics favourites. They most likely became “victims” of  the rule stipulating that “scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled from the music of more than one composer shall not be eligible”.

More of a mystery is the disqualification of Nicholas Hooper’s score for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Carter Burwell’s The Blind Side. None of those are on the surprisingly short list of eligible scores for the 2010 Oscars. Other major scores excluded are Hans Zimmer’s Angels and Demons, Marco Beltrami’s Knowing and Law Abiding Citizen by Brian Tyler.

Here is the list of eligible scores:

• ADAM (Christopher Lennertz)
• ADORATION (Mychael Danna)
• ADVENTURES OF POWER (Ethan Gold)
• ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (John Debney)
• AMELIA (Gabriel Yared)
• ASTRO BOY (John Ottman)
• AVATAR (James Horner)
• BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Mark Isham)
• BRIGHT STAR (Mark Bradshaw)
• BROKEN EMBRACES (Alberto Iglesias)
• BROTHERS (Thomas Newman)
• BY THE PEOPLE: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA (Craig Wedren)
• CHERI (Alexandre Desplat)
• CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (Mark Mothersbaugh)
• COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Alexandre Desplat)
• CORALINE (Bruno Coulais)
• COUPLES RETREAT (A.R. Rahman)
• CREATION (Christopher Young)
• DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Alan Silvestri)
• DISTRICT 9 (Clinton Shorter)
• DRAG ME TO HELL (Christopher Young)
• DUPLICITY (James Newton Howard)
• AN EDUCATION (Paul Englishby)
• EVA (Vlady Cnejevici)
• EVERYBODY’S FINE (Dario Marianelli)
• FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat)
• (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Mychael Danna /Rob Simonsen)
• G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA (Alan Silvestri)
• GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST (Rolfe Kent)
• HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (Cliff Eidelman)
• HOTEL FOR DOGS (John Debney)
• THE HURT LOCKER (Marco Beltrami / Buck Sanders)
• ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS (John Powell)
• THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS (Jeff & Mychael Danna)
• THE INFORMANT! (Marvin Hamlisch)
• INKHEART (Javier Navarrete)
• INVICTUS (Kyle Eastwood / Michael Stevens)
• IRON CROSS (Roger Bellon)
• IT’S COMPLICATED (Hans Zimmer / Heitor Pereira)
• JULIE & JULIA (Alexandre Desplat)
• LAND OF THE LOST (Michael Giacchino)
• THE LAST STATION (Sergey Yevtuchenko)
• THE LIGHTKEEPERS (Pinar Toprak)
• THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (Rolfe Kent)
• THE MISSING LYNX (Sergio de la Puente)
• MOON (Clint Mansell)
• MY SISTER’S KEEPER (Aaron Zigman)
• NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN (Alan Silvestri)
• OLD DOGS (John Debney)
• ORPHAN (John Ottman)
• PARIS 36 (Reinhardt Wagner)
• PLANET 51 (James Brett)
• PONYO (Joe Hisaishi)
• THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Randy Newman)
• THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE (Michael Rohatyn)
• PUBLIC ENEMIES (Elliot Goldenthal)
• PUNCTURED HOPE (David Brandstaetter)
• RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (Trevor Rabin)
• THE ROAD (Nick Cave / Warren Ellis)
• RUDO Y CURSI (Leoncio Lara)
• A SERIOUS MAN (Carter Burwell)
• 17 AGAIN (Rolfe Kent)
• SHERLOCK HOLMES (Hans Zimmer)
• SIN NOMBRE (Marcelo Zarvos)
• A SINGLE MAN (Abel Korzeniowski)
• SKIN (Helene Muddiman)
• STAR TREK (Michael Giacchino)
• THE STONING OF SORAYA M (John Debney)
• SUNSHINE CLEANING (Michael Penn)
• TERMINATOR SALVATION (Danny Elfman)
• TETRO (Osvaldo Golijov)
• THAT EVENING SUN (Michael Penn)
• THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE (Mychael Danna)
• TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (Steve Jablonsky)
• THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Alexandre Desplat)
• 2012 (Harald Kloser / Thomas Wander)
• THE UNINVITED (Christopher Young)
• UP (Michael Giacchino)
• UP IN THE AIR (Rolfe Kent)
• WATCHMEN (Tyler Bates)
• THE YOUNG VICTORIA (Ilan Eshkeri)

Link: The Wrap.