Hollywood beckons the Frames‘ singer/songwriter Glen Hansard. In one of the more fitting Oscar nominations in recent years, Hansard and Marketa Irglova, his co-star in the wonderful low-budget, big hit, musical will perform on the 80th Annual Academy Awards telecast on February 24.

Hansard and Irglova will perform Falling Slowly, their signature duet from the film, which is nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Song category. How good is that!

Though this is the first Oscar nomination for Hansard and Irglova, the soundtrack album has garnered several accolades. In January, Falling Slowly was named Best Song at the Critics’ Choice Awards, and in December the soundtrack (Canvasback/Columbia Records/Sony Music Soundtrax) was voted Best Music from a Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

The album also received two Grammy nominations this year. In 2007, the film won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Incidentally, Dylanophiles like Geemuses will have picked up on Hansard and Irglova’s version of the great man’s You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere, one of the highlights of the I’m Not There soundtrack album.

Anyway, everybody - all two of us - at Geemuses think this is the best Oscar nomination in years.