UPDATE:  Carr is now saying that an announcement will come later today regarding the eligibility of the track.  If the Academy doubles back here, it'll be pretty sickening, given that all of this was cleared up once (so to speak) already.  Maybe they want a hat-trick on pissing people off this year.

EARLIER:  David Carr's widely circulated speculation about "Falling Slowly," the Oscar-nominated song from "Once," is troubling me.  Not because I feel the song is on the way out due to eligibility concerns, but because I thought this was already cleared up long ago.  So who's feeding this line to the media?

To the best of my knowledge, the songs from "Once" that were deemed eligible were, indeed, written specifically for the film.  They were released on an album before the film's theatrical release, but according to the Academy's rules, that doesn't matter.

Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher, is also getting into the fray, muddying the waters and indicating that "Falling Slowly" might not have been one of the songs Glen Hansard wrote specifically for the film.  Well, it was.  Along with "If You Want Me."  The other tracks were not original to the material and were deemed out of Oscar's bounds accordingly.

M'kay?