Does anyone even know it’s Academy Awards weekend? Has anyone actually seen any of the movies? Or at least heard of most of them? No doubt about it, this will be Oscar’s strangest year.

Since I’m still cut off from studio broadcast, thanks to COVID-19, we’ll have to forgo my annual three-hour celebration of the movies – a festive playlist made up of music associated with Academy Award winning classics, alongside selections from the current year’s nominees.

Be that as it may, Oscar doesn’t always get it right.

As something of a stopgap, this week on “Picture Perfect,” we’ll revisit some enduring and culturally significant movies, most of which were honored in other categories, but were denied the statuette for Best Original Score.

Tune in for selections from “Citizen Kane” (Bernard Herrmann), “The Magnificent Seven” (Elmer Bernstein), “The Big Country” (Jerome Moross), and “Gone with the Wind” (Max Steiner).

One doesn’t need a statuette to be a winner. I hope you’ll join me for “They Been Robbed,” on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

If you’re really jonesing for the glories of Oscars past, last year’s Oscar Party is still available as a webcast – though of course, last year’s nominees are no longer current. Make yourself a bowl of popcorn and listen here:

https://www.wwfm.org/post/picture-perfect-february-7-oscar-party-2020