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It received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 44th Academy Awards
The Oscar nomination was not for Best Original Score. The film was nominated in the separate category for Scoring Adaptation and Original Song Score.
Full reasoning
The article’s lead says the film received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 44th Academy Awards. The Academy’s official record for the 44th Oscars lists Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory as a nominee in Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score), credited to Walter Scharf, Leslie Bricusse, and Anthony Newley. That is a different category from Best Original Score / Original Dramatic Score.
So the nomination category named in the post is incorrect, even though the film did receive an Oscar nomination.
1 source
- The 44th Academy Awards | 1972
Music (Scoring: Adaptation and Original Song Score) ... Nominees ... Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory ... Song Score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley; Adaptation Score by Walter Scharf
Charlie embraces Wonka with a hug and tells Charlie to never forget what happened to the man who got everything he always wanted.
This plot summary assigns the final line to Charlie, but it is Wonka who tells Charlie that line at the end of the film.
Full reasoning
The sentence says Charlie tells Charlie "to never forget what happened to the man who got everything he always wanted." That is backwards.
Reliable plot summaries and the screenplay attribute that line to Willy Wonka, who tells Charlie this after revealing that Charlie has won the factory. The AFI Catalog synopsis says Wonka hugs Charlie and reminds him that the man who got everything he always wanted lived happily ever after, and the screenplay excerpt shows the line labeled for WONKA.
So the article misidentifies the speaker in the film’s closing exchange.
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- AFI Catalog - Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Assuring Charlie that his family can live with him, Wonka hugs the boy and reminds him that the man who got everything he always wanted lived happily ever after.
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory screenplay
WONKA ... Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.