AR
Rahman's
chance
to
win
back-to-back
Oscars
ended
today
at
Los
Angeles.
The
Mozart
of
Madras
has
failed
to
win
a
nomination
in
the
'Best
Original
Song'
category
thus
dashing
India's
hope
at
this
year's
Academy
Awards.
Rahman
was
listed
in
the
category
of
Best
Original
Score
for
'Na
na'
from
the
Peter
Billingsle
directed
Couples
Retreat.
'Na
na'
lost
the
race
to
'Almost
There'
by
Randy
Newman
for
The
Princess
and
the
Frog,
'Down
in
New
Orleans'
from
the
same
movie,
'Loin
de
Paname'
from
Paris
36
by
Reinhardt
Wagner
and
Frank
Thomas;
'Take
it
all'
from
the
movie
"Nine" by
Maury
Yeston
and
'The
weary
kind'
from
the
movie
Crazy
Heart"
by
Ryan
Bingham
and
T
Bone
Burnett.
Incidentally
this
disappointment
comes
days
after
Rahman
bagged
two
honours
as
the
2010
Grammy
Awards
for
for
the
Danny
Boyle
directed
Slumdog
Millionaire.
Last
year
Rahman
had
bagged
two
Academy
Awards
in
the
Best
Original
Music
Score
and
Best
Original
Song
category
Slumdog
Millionaire
who
had
even
won
the
Best
Picture
award.
Rahman
was
India's
only
hope
at
the
82nd
Annual
Academy
Awards
for
India
as
the
Marathi
movie
Harishchandrachi
Factory,
India's
official
entry
at
the
Oscars,
had
already
been
voted
out
of
the
race
last
month
in
the
Foreign
Language
Film
category.
The
winners
of
this
year's
academy
awards
will
be
announced
on
March
7.
Story first published: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 8:57 [IST]