Oscar Watch: T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham Talk Crazy Heart

by Anne Thompson
February 16, 2010 9:56 AM
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After the Academy Nominees luncheon Monday at the Beverly Hilton, I repaired downstairs to do a couple of interviews pool side--along with a few other media. I flip-cammed Crazy Heart's T Bone Burnett, the tall and famous music supervisor who was instrumental in making the movie as good as it is. First, the movie wouldn't have been made without him. Burnett told old pal and jam-mate Jeff Bridges that if he would make Scott Cooper's movie, so would he. Second, Burnett insisted that the movie's backers raise enough money to do the music properly. The hand-crafted songs that fit Bridges' Bad Blake persona like a glove are what make Crazy Heart work so well. Burnett brought along songwriter Ryan Bingham, who wrote Oscar best original song front-runner "The Weary Kind."

Later that night the two performed along with Bridges and Elton John in a tiny jazz club presumably, as tweeted by @chriswillman, filled with Academy members. Unfortunately, if the Academy producers opt out of performing original songs on the Oscar show in favor of film clips, we will all miss out on seeing Bridges perform the song.

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Brian | February 17, 2010 4:49 AMReply

Ryan Bingham is also the name of George Clooney's character in UP IN THE AIR. Is there any connection between the two or is it just a bizarre coincidence?

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