The 2014 Oscar nominees were announced this morning and as, usual, along with the expected nods there were a few WTF moments. One that grabbed us was the Best Song nomination for "Alone Yet Not Alone" from the film of the same name.

What film of the same name, you ask?  We had the same question. Turns out Alone Yet Not Alone is an Evangelical Christian movie about two young girls kidnapped by Native Americans in Western Pennsylvania in 1755 and how their Christian devotion helped them survive. It's the first release from Enthuse Entertainment, a Christian film company with a mission "to produce God-honoring, faith based, family friendly films that inspire the human spirit to seek and know God," according to its website.

Film.com has a more detailed version of this Dances with Wolves wannabe:

There’s an emphasis on the piety of the central family, German immigrants with two daughters who embrace their faith as thoroughly as is expected of them. Then the girls get kidnapped by a Delaware raiding party, who at least in the trailer get called “savages” over and over again. According to the film’s website, the Delaware “attempt to indoctrinate them into native culture,” which as we all know has little to do with Jesus. Yet they retain their faith, and the film is undoubtedly a triumphant tale of the light of Christianity over the forces of darkness.

Darkness being represented by those nasty Indians! Check out the trailer below.

Interestingly, Alone Yet Not Alone is being touted as a blockbuster by former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum.You remember him—the presidential candidate who compared gay marriage to "man on dog" relationships.

In fact, the film's entire endorsements wall is a Who's Who of Homophobic Haters, including Concerned Women of America's Penny Nance, who says gay people have "unnatural affections" and declares marriage equality "stands squarely against everything on which this country was founded." And Patrick Henry College founder Michael Farris, who makes students at his school sign an "honor code" that they won't be gay.

There's not enough room to go into the appalling actions of Family Research Council's Tony Perkins and Focus on the Family's James Dobson, who also praised Not Alone. (Although we will say Perkins claims gay rights will lead to the extinction of the human race.)

The song is sung by quadriplegic evangelist Joni Eareckson Tada, who preaches couples should praise God  with their marriages, the way the Bible teaches us. It's crammed with sappy Christian aphorisms and over-produced to within an inch of its life.

Keep in mind, this track beat out Coldplay's "Atlas" from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire  and Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful"  from The Great Gatsby.

So how did such a clunky song from an obscure Christian movie score an Oscar nod? Well, Bruce Broughton, the song’s composer, is on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. And Not Alone is scheduled for a wider release February 21, after the Oscar nominations but before the awards themselves—so it could definitely benefit from the buzz.

Take that for what it's worth.

h/t: Film.com