LeAnn Rimes photo courtesy of Curb Nashville.

Ryan Bingham earned a lot of attention for country music when he picked up an Oscar award for the theme from Crazy Heart this weekend, but he’s hardly alone among country recording artists participating in current film projects.

LeAnn Rimes, Dwight Yoakam and Miley Cyrus all have roles in titles that are on the way. Tim McGraw just finished working on another film, and Taylor Swift has racked up more sales for her work on a recent soundtrack.

Here’s a rundown on country’s current ties to Hollywood:

• LeAnn has a slot alongside Luke Perry in the movie Good Intentions, which is released Tuesday on DVD. Billed as an “off-beat comedy,” it might represent a bigger commitment to film by LeAnn, who co-starred with Eddie Cibrian last year in the Lifetime movie Northern Lights. “I’ve been wanting to act,” she says. “It’s just been finding the right thing. And Good Intentions was the right thing at the right time. It was the right script.” Two of LeAnn’s songs, “Nothin’ Better To Do” and “Family,” also appear on the soundtrack.

• Dwight has a role in Provinces Of Night, an independent movie about a twisted family shot last year in North Carolina. The picture — which also features Kris Kristofferson, Val Kilmer and Hillary Duff — premiered last month at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. It’s slated for a screening next month at the Nashville Film Festival.

• The Last Song, starring Miley and her current beau Liam Hemsworth, hits theaters March 31. The final episode of her Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana” is slated to air March 14.

• Tim and his wife, Faith Hill, were at Sunday’s Oscars, but they also were on hand at a recent wrap party in Nashville, according to The Tennessean. They celebrated at the Mercy Lounge as Love Don’t Let Me Down reached its final week of filming. Gwyneth Paltrow, who plays a country singer in the project, got up during the party to sing a karaoke version of “Killing Me Softly.”

• Taylor has collected another gold single for a song that hasn’t actually been released as a single. “Today Was A Fairytale,” included in the soundtrack to Valentine’s Day, was certified last month for downloads of more than 500,000 copies.

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