Hollywood’s elite gather this weekend to celebrate the best in film for 2014, as the 87th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Throughout the long history of the Oscars, country music has made its presence known relatively few times. The 1980s was one of the more fertile decades when it came to country music and the movies. In 1984, Robert Duvall earned the Best Actor trophy playing fictional country singer Mac Sledge in “Tender Mercies”, and by 1985, a trio of “heartland” films earned a dozen nominations: “The River,” “Places in the Heart,” and “Country.”
