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'My Lord Sunshine: Or, How Authentic Was Composer Nicholas Britell's Diegetic Music in '12 Years a Slave?'

Scoring a period piece can't be the easiest of musical endeavors. I mean, just listen to 'Barry Lyndon.' Even harder, though? Incorporating sounds so dated they've only been conveyed to modernity via word of mouth.

By Ian Holubiak

'16 Years a Rave: 43 Million People Watched Ellen's 2014 Academy Awards Broadcast, Breaking 1998's Record (and the Internet)

If you missed the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday you, literally, may have been the only one. Oscars telecast ratings hit a 10-year high on March 2 with a 43 million-strong American viewership--it broke a Twitter record, too.

By Ian Holubiak
'Defying Gravity: Idina Menzel (née Adele Dazeem) Wins 2014 Oscar for Best Original Song with "Let It Go" from 'Frozen'

Here at Classicalite, we set our own agenda for the Academy Awards--specifically, the contenders for Best Original Score and Best Original Song. And, to be fair, we were wrong.

By Ian Holubiak

'My Lord Sunshine: Or, How Authentic Was Composer Nicholas Britell's Diegetic Music in '12 Years a Slave?'

'16 Years a Rave: 43 Million People Watched Ellen's 2014 Academy Awards Broadcast, Breaking 1998's Record (and the Internet)

'Defying Gravity: Idina Menzel (née Adele Dazeem) Wins 2014 Oscar for Best Original Song with "Let It Go" from 'Frozen'

'Violinist Owen Pallett Worries Oscar Win for Best Original Score (with Arcade Fire, for Spike Jonze's 'her') Will Kill Canada's Indie Cred

'Oscar, You're Out: Academy Awards Disqualify Bruce Broughton's 'Alone Yet Not Alone' for Best Original Song

'Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross Reunite to Score New David Fincher Movie 'Gone Girl'

'LISTEN: Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire's Oscar 2014 Nominee 'her' Soundtrack Contends for Best Original Score

'UPDATE: Yo-Yo Ma Applauds Morgan Neville's Oscar Nomination for 'The Sound of Silk' Doc

'John Williams, Owen Pallett, Arcade Fire Listed Among the 2014 Oscar Nominees for Best Score