Religion and the Oscars

I recently read an article about how many of the Academy Award-nominated pictures this year have religion as their central theme:

-Les Miserables--at the heart is the theme of redemption, of "returning to God" and has religious allusions and references throughout.
-Beasts of the Southern Wild-- has religious allusion along with magical realism.
-Django Unchained-- many religious references. An overseer patrols with a whip and a bible in his hand, and Django ends up shooting him in the chest through a bible page-- a breastplate of righteousness.
-Life of Pi-- totally centered around three different religions, has themes of hope and redemption, and explores what religion is really about.

Article begs the question-- in a time of growing disbelief, will Hollywood take over our methods of myth telling and become our marker for morality? Its an interesting question.