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'The Peanuts Movie': 2016 Best Original Score Oscar contender along with 111 other titles. Oscar 2016: Best Original Score contenders range from 'Mad Max: Fury Road' to 'The Peanuts Movie' Earlier this month (Dec. '15), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made public the list of 112 film scores eligible for the 2016 Oscar in the Best Original Score category. As found in the Academy's press release, “a Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.” The release adds that “to be eligible, the original score must be a substantial body of music that serves as original dramatic underscoring, and must...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 112 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2015 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 88th Academy Awards.

The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:

“Adult Beginners,” Marcelo Zarvos, composer

“The Age of Adaline,” Rob Simonsen, composer

“Altered Minds,” Edmund Choi, composer

“Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip,” Mark Mothersbaugh, composer

“Anomalisa,” Carter Burwell, composer

“Ant-Man,” Christophe Beck, composer

“Beasts of No Nation,” Dan Romer, composer

“The Big Short,” Nicholas Britell, composer

“Black Mass,” Tom Holkenborg, composer

“Bridge of Spies,” Thomas Newman, composer

“Brooklyn,” Michael Brook, composer

“Burnt,” Rob Simonsen, composer

“By the Sea,” Gabriel Yared, composer

“Carol,” Carter Burwell, composer

“Cartel Land,” H. Scott Salinas and Jackson Greenberg, composers

“Chi-Raq,” Terence Blanchard, composer

“Cinderella,” Patrick Doyle, composer

“Coming Home,” Qigang Chen, composer

“Concussion,...

Production has started in Canberra on the Bollywood film Salt Bridge.

Starring international names Rajeev Khandelwal and Usha Jadhav, as well as Australia.s own Logie winner Chelsie Preston Crayford, the film follows the tight-knit expat Indian community of .Salt Bridge. and the experiences they face after migrating to Australia from India.

Filmed in the Hindi language, Salt Bridge will shoot throughout January with a potential wide release in June 2015.

The film is written and directed by Canberra based Abhijit Deonath. Australian Miguel Gallagher is Director of Photography and Surabhi Singh is Associate Director.

Cast and crew have already filmed at a number of Canberra locations, including Black Mountain Peninsula, Kingston Railway Station and the suburb of Bonner.

Chelsie Preston Crayford is best known for her work as Tilly Devine on Underbelly, for which she won the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent, as well as Sophie Walsh on The Code,...