However, a number of other high-profile awards contenders - among them Django Unchained, Les Miserables and Beasts of the Southern Wild - have been ruled ineligible for this year's prizes.

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One notable performance bubbling under the top 10 was this summer's indie critical darling, Fox Searchlight's "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " which jumped from No. 21 to No. 16 after quadrupling the number of the theaters it was in.

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