An Oscar for Best Music for that score!!??!! What gives?

Rating: 2/10 (12 March 2006)

I am amazed once more at the people that give out Oscars.
Are they so completely prisoner of the hype and the publicity that they don't even bother to listen to the music scores anymore? I mean, the score to Brokeback Mountain isn't bad. It's fine. It's just nothing special.
It's made up of a not particularly memorable melody with uninspired strings in the back, and then it repeats itself.
It's definitely not the stuff that Rocky, Star Wars or even Titanic was made of.
Of course, when you look at the history of the academy awards, you discover the predilection towards the bland and the mediocre (sometimes even the outright bad in the acting categories) and a snub of a lot of really quality works.
While they may have thought it would be boring to give John Williams yet another award, it would have been a lot better for their reputation than giving it to yet another mediocre score.