Published 7/1/2009
by Lew Harris
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By Michael Adams The announcement that there would be 10 Best Picture nominees in 2009 ricocheted around the movie world late last week, only to be pretty much snuffed out as a conversation topic by the news of Michael Jackson’s death.
I’ve had it on the mental backburner this past week and am still have mixed feelings about it.
Primarily, it seems aimed at elasticizing the category in order to get more populist films in there and boosting the ratings.
With 10 slots, the argument goes, “The Dark Knight” and “Wall-E” would’ve been in there and th...
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