Out of 75 entries for this year’s original song nominations, the music branch chose five. And then the Board of Governors narrowed the field to four when it disqualified “Alone Yet Not Alone” for ...

And the award for most confusing new rules goes to … the song category. The Academy holds a “bake-off” (though it doesn’t like to call it that) in which 40 or so songs are shown in three-minute clips.