Unmentioned in our previous coverage of this year’s Oscar Nominations was perhaps the most perplexing of all. In the Best Original Song category, along side “Let it Go” from Frozen, and “Happy” from Despicable Me 2 was an outlier.

“Alone, Yet Not Alone”, from the film Alone Yet Not Alone somehow made its way on to the list. If you’ve never heard of the song, or the movie, you’re not alone. The film was directed by Ray Bengston, and is regularly described as an “evangelical Christian historical drama” that almost no one had seen. Of course, a film being of the evangelical Christian bent has little bearing on the merits of the song.

But the anonymity of the film (on nomination day, Grantland called it “the movie that had all of us racing to IMDb this morning”) made many wonder how the song was able to win the nod, especially given that many favorites-including Taylor Swift’s “Sweeter than Fiction” from One Chance, and Coldplay’s “Atlas” from Hunger Games: Catching Fire-were overlooked.

So how did it get nominated? Well, it appears now that the cause behind the surprise results from the songwriter: Bruce Broughton. Another name you’re probably not familiar with.

Who’s Broughton? He’s a former Governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! Duh. He currently sits on the Academy’s Executive Committee. And so on Tuesday night, at a meeting of the Academy’s Governors Board, it was decided that Mr. Boughton “took advantage of his leadership position to improperly lobby fellow members of the branch.” The nomination has been rescinded.

Such an action is rare, but not unprecedented in Oscar History.

As for Mr. Broughton, he told EW that he did nothing wrong. “Yeah, I wrote some people and said, ‘Could you just take a look.’ That was literally the extent of the campaigning.” Apparently, that comprises enough campaigning to have your obscure film returned to obscurity.

It’s a strange fate for a film that in all likelihood, we never would have heard about in the first place.