Oscar nominations: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' receives four Oscar nods

Hollywood South is home to several Oscar nominations this year, with the locally-filmed “Beasts of the Southern Wild” picking up four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress, for Houma native Quvenzhané Wallis, who becomes the youngestA zealous gumbo of regionalism, magical realism, post-Katrina allegory, myth and ecological parable, Beasts of the Southern Wild, the southern Louisiana–set debut feature of 29-year-old Benh Zeitlin, rests, often.Beasts of the Southern Wild, the surprise indie hit by New Orleans filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and his local Court 13 film collective, earned four major Oscar nominations this morning including Best Picture. Zeitlin also earned aHollywood South is home to several Oscar nominations this year, with the locally-filmed “Beasts of the Southern Wild” picking up four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress, for Houma

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