Trent Reznor Wins Oscar for 'The Social Network'

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Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor has won his first Academy Award. Reznor and his frequent collaborator Atticus Ross won the Oscar for Best Original Score for The Social Network, the duo's inaugural project as composers for film.

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This is not the first major award Reznor and Ross have won for their work on The Social Network. They previously took home awards for Best Score from the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Society, Broadcast Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics, among others.

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Reznor and Ross are already locked in for another collaboration with The Social Network director David Fincher -- they are set to compose the score for his American film adaptation of Stieg Larsson's hit book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The two are also in the process of recording the first full-length album by their band How to Destroy Angels.

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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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