As the 84th Academy Awards move closer, we’re starting to get a better sense of how things will pan out. We recently shared the 39 songs that will contend for the Best Original Song category, and now the Academy has announced the 97 original scores eligible for the Best Original Score award. AMPAS is notoriously picky when it comes to eligibility in this category, and as we feared the scores for both Drive and Attack the Block have been deemed ineligible. Also disappointing is the ineligibility of Alexandre Desplat’s mesmerizing score for The Tree of Life.

While it’s upsetting to see some of the year’s best work side-lined, there’s plenty to be happy about. I was a huge fan of Howard Shore’s work in Hugo and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, as well as The Chemical Brothers’ brilliant work in the criminally underseen Hanna. Hit the jump for the full list, as well as who I think will make the cut.

Fox Searchlight has just sent out a press release announcing that they have acquired the North American rights to distribute Wayne Wang’s adaptation of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.  Based on the bestselling novel by Lisa Lee, Snow Flower is about two parallel stories, one involving two seven-year-old girls in 19th-century China and another involving their descendants in present day Shanghai.  Both stories are about two women trying overcoming various obstacles in order to maintain their friendship.

The film certainly seems to be in Wang’s wheelhouse seeing as he also directed an adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, which has cultural and thematic similarities.  Hit the jump for the full press release.