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Variety is reporting that Disney's 'The Princess and the Frog' has been placed on the "reminder list" which is mailed out to the 234 members of the Academy's music branch. This, despite the "diminished impact clause" which prohibits the inclusion of "scores diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs" from entering into competition for original song score. Under the specifics of this clause, Andrea Guerra's score for 'Nine', as well as the score for the film 'Where the Wild Things Are' were formally disqualified. 'The Princess and the Frog' features seven original songs by Randy Newman, as well as a piece by Ne-Yo for the film's end credits.

From Variety, "The rule was instituted in the mid-1990s, after wins by four Disney animated musicals in The category designed to reward "dramatic underscoring," not multiple songs. So a possible win for "original score" by a Disney animated musical this year would be ironic considering the origins of the rule."

However, 'Princess and the Frog' may not be completely exempt. Variety also reports that it's believed that a last-minute disqualification of the film score may eventually happen.

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"The reason for the critical silence is the film doesn't fall into the trap that people expected," Mia Mask, the film department chair at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., told ABCNews.com. "Because the film was in production so long, people were expecting (Disney) to mess it up and reproduce stereotypes in some way. But the folks working on this really had a clue and managed to avoid the pitfalls that people expected they might fall into." "(Disney) did a good job in not being controversial," Michael Baran, a Harvard University cultural anthropologist, told ABCNews.com. "With this one, they had to be a lot more careful."

"It certainly was important to make sure we were creating the next Disney princess who could stand with all the other Disney princesses," Peter del Vecho, the film's producer, told ABCNews.com.

After deciding to set the movie in New Orleans and make the main characters black, the filmmakers solicited feedback from prominent African Americans along the way. "We wanted to make sure we got it right," said del Vecho, adding that the film was never delayed and the release date was even moved up by a month.

But while the film was in production, rumors and criticism threatened to tarnish Disney's first black princess even before she made it to the screen.

After "early speculation," del Vecho said the filmmakers were confident that "once people saw the movie they would be very pleased and embrace Tiana." Teresa Wiltz, senior culture writer for TheRoot.com, said she understands the reason for all the early speculation. "There are still so few images of black people in the media that we come armed to the multiplex with all these expectations," Wiltz told ABCNews.com. "It's a very high, high bar."

Wiltz said she thinks Disney met the challenge. "I thought it was lovely," she said, "beautifully done." Baran agreed. "Any issues one can find with representations are not really blatant," he said. "They were careful to portray African Americans. More than anything else they make the white folk look ridiculous."

Time magazine voted the film one of the best of the year.

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"Never Knew I Needed," is nominated in the best original song category. More Oscar nomitated songs will be revealed at a later time.

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The evil Doctor Facilier sings to Prince Naveen that he has "friends on the other side". Click on the play button below to enjoy this scene.

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‘Disney’s A Christmas Carol’ slipped to the No 5 spot. Vampire romance ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ dropped two slots to No 4. Another potential Oscar contender is ‘The Lovely Bones’ based on the best-selling novel. ‘Brothers’, a drama about soldiers returning home from war, took sixth place.