As we enter awards season, Better Man has already landed a Golden Globes nomination for best original song with Forbidden Road, credited to Robbie, Freddy Wexler and Sacha Skarbek.
Robbie Williams’ biopic, Better Man, has suffered a tough hit after being disqualified from the best original song category at the Oscars.
According to insiders, the disqualification occurred because the song reportedly ‘incorporates material from an existing song that was not written for the film’.
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The issue centres around the melody having similarities with I Got a Name, a 1973 song by Charles Fox-Norman Gimbel which Jim Croce performed for the movie, The Last American Hero.
