Los Angeles ? No Academy Award will be presented for best song at next year’s ceremony if none of the tunes is considered good enough, Oscar organizers said Friday.

Rules for the 82nd Oscar show next March will require that at least one song must achieve a minimum score of 8.25 on a scale of 6 to 10 in voting by members of the academy’s music branch.

“We’re trying to improve the quality,” said composer Bruce Broughton, who heads the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. “There’s been a lot of talk about the songs in films, the lack of memorability compared to songs in the past, the almost forgetability of some of them. … This is an attempt to really make the songs as good as possible.”

In another significant change for next year’s show, the academy is moving its honorary Oscars out of the Academy Awards ceremony itself and presenting them at a separate event.