Anyone who has heard the scores of award-winning composer Dan Romer knows the emotion that flows through his music. Making a splash in 2012 with Ben Zeitlin’s socially conscious fairy tale Beasts of the Southern Wild—a little, lovingly made indie that went on to receive four Oscar nominations—Romer’s presence has been…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mazur/Kaplan Company and Olympus Pictures have optioned Holly Goldberg Sloan’s bestselling novel Counting By 7s. They’ve attached Oscar-nominated Beasts Of The Southern Wild star Quvenzhané Wallis and will build the movie around her. The bestseller centers on Willow Chance, a bright young girl who…

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The last in a three-part series in which AwardsLine breaks down all nine of the best picture contenders.

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With less than a month to go, the stage is set for one of the strangest Oscar showdowns in memory. Certainly the season started with some clear favorites emerging, like Argo at Telluride, Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto, then Lincoln just after the election, followed by Life Of Pi. I thought Paramount's <img class="…

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