In 1977, a blockbuster movie soundtrack transformed pop music, delivering four chart-topping singles and becoming a cultural phenomenon. But despite its massive success, the Academy Awards overlooked it entirely.
The movie soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever was released in November 1977. It turned disco, which was an underground dance movement, into a mainstream cultural phenomenon.
But per a report by Billboard, the soundtrack was snubbed during the Academy Award nominations of 1978. Instead of any of the film's number one songs, including "How Deep Is Your Love," "Stayin' Alive," and "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, and "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman, other songs were placed for nomination by the Oscars voting board.
Instead, the nominated songs that year included "You Light Up My Life" (Debby Boone), "Nobody Does it Better" (Carly Simon), "Candle on the Water" (Helen Reddy), "The Slipper and the Rose Waltz" (Richard Chamberlain and Gemma Cravin) and "Someone's Waiting for You" (Shelby Flint).
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Per Billboard, five of the Bee Gees' songs were eligible for nomination for the Academy Awards and were submitted. The songs sent for Oscar consideration were “How Deep Is Your Love,” “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever,” “If I Can’t Have You,” and “More Than a Woman.”
However, the Academy has strict rules about the number of submission one film can place for consideration in the category of Best Original Song. It reads, "The submission must be initiated either personally by the songwriter or composer, or by their authorized representative, or by an authorized representative of the distributing studio of that film. Please note, no more than three songs from any one film may be submitted for Original Song, regardless of writer(s)."
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While too many submissions may have been a deciding factor in not considering the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack for an Oscar nomination, there were other elements at play. Billboard reports that during the late 1970s, Academy voters weren't as invested in popular music as perhaps they are today and tended to lean more toward composers they were familiar with.
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Despite being snubbed by the Academy, the soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever" held the top spot on Billboard's albums chart for a historic 24 weeks, reported American Songwriter. The website wrote, "Five of the Top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 were written by the Gibb brothers on the week of March 25, 1978. The LP went on to win five Grammy awards, including Album of the Year."
Oh, and the song that won an Oscar that year? Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life."
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