"Vanilla Sky," 'Vanilla Sky' (2001)

Nominee: Paul McCartney

Vanilla Sky is a deliberately confusing and stylized sci-fi story with a soundtrack that is almost uniformly excellent -- except, of course, for Paul McCartney's original composition, the title track "Vanilla Sky."  It stands out as awkward and clunky in a soundtrack otherwise defined by cool, sensual weirdness from bands like Radiohead, Sigur Ros and Thievery Corporation. This song was just trying too hard. Besides, one of Nancy Wilson's original compositions should have been nominated instead.