LOS ANGELES—The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said its governors had voted to rescind an Oscar nomination for the song "Alone Yet Not Alone," from the movie of the same title, because one of its creators, Bruce Broughton, had improperly advised fellow members of the Academy's music branch that he was in the running for a nomination.
The song received the only nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone," an independent film from Enthuse Entertainment about sisters captured by Native Americans in the 18th century. The music was written by Mr. Broughton, a seasoned Hollywood composer, and with lyrics by Dennis Spiegel.
In a statement on Wednesday, a day after the decision, the Academy said Mr. Broughton, who was previously an Academy governor and serves on the executive committee of the group's music branch, had emailed branch members during nominations voting, "to make them aware of his submission."
In a Tuesday-night meeting, the statement said, Academy governors determined that the communication violated rules on promotion. "No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage," Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy's president, said in the statement.
In a statement, Mr. Broughton stopped far short of acknowledging a rules violation, and blamed unnamed rivals for the rescission.
"I'm devastated," Mr. Broughton said. He added: "I indulged in the simplest grass-roots campaign and it went against me when the song started getting attention. I got taken down by competition that had months of promotion and advertising behind them. I simply asked people to find the song and consider it."
The rescission left four Oscar nominees in the song category: "Happy," from "Despicable Me 2"; "Let It Go," from "Frozen"; "The Moon Song," from "Her"; and "Ordinary Love," from "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom."
The "Alone Yet Not Alone" nomination had earlier been examined for possible violation of a rule that sets a minimum advertising standard for the release of an Oscar-qualifying film, but it had survived that challenge.
The revocation was an unusually strong step for the Academy. In 2010, when Nicolas Chartier, a producer of "The Hurt Locker," was found to have improperly campaigned against a rival, "Avatar," Mr. Chartier was barred from the Oscar ceremony. But his film remained qualified, and went on to win the best picture Oscar.
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