True Grit, the new film from Joel and Ethan Coen based on the 1968 Charles Portis novel of the same name, has been winning over audiences since its North American theatrical release last month. The New York Times has published a feature evaluating the film's chances for an Academy Award and, more precisely, the impact the film's popular success—its having "shocked Hollywood by burning up the box office," according to the article—might have on Oscar voters. You can read the article at nytimes.com.

However many awards the film may garner, its score, by composer Carter Burwell, may be out of the running for an Oscar due to an Academy technicality, and that, says the Los Angeles Times, is a "shame, as Burwell’s work on True Grit is some of his grandest to date."

Los Angeles Times writer Todd Martens gives three stars to the soundtrack, out now on Nonesuch and available in the Nonesuch Store. "Eschewing the traditional brassy triumphs that mark many a western score," writes Martens, "Burwell opts to focus instead on lovely, albeit slightly sorrowful, piano arrangements. It allows for True Grit to work equally well for big-screen vistas and solitary contemplation."

Read the complete album review at latimes.com.

The film, already up for 11 Critics' Choice Awards and six Chicago Film Critics Awards, was recently nominated for four Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards: Best Film, Best Supporting Actress for Hailee Steinfeld, and Best Director and Best Screenplay for the Joel and Ethan Coen. True Grit was also the only film to make the Top 10 lists for 2010 of all six of Vancouver's Georgia Straight's critics.

To pick up a copy of the True Grit soundtrack on CD, with the complete album and the digital bonus track—Iris DeMent’s rendition of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”from the film's closing credits—included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store.