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Oscars to Double Best-Picture Nominations for 2009
Tuned In —
Because movies are just so good . How can you pick just five? It's not a TV story, exactly, but the awards are televised—and, presumably, this means more clutter for the Oscars show to work in. Will there be twice as long an opening musical number? So I'll put it to you: is there some reason I'm overlooking why this is a good idea? I could see, for instance, if the Academy decided to bifurcate the picture awards into drama and musical/comedy, a la the Golden Globes (and the Emmys) so as to correct the awards' traditional drama bias. But all I ...
WTF? Next Year's Oscars Will Include 10 Best Picture Nominees
:: The Playlist :: —
... Look we understand times are tight, everyone's lowering their standards to get noticed, posting "discuss this!"non-stories for traffic bait and a general whoring yourself out, but isn't this just a tad fucking drastic? World is going to hell in a hand basket, people. It's not about quality anymore, it's about quantity. No word if the other categories will increase their number of nominations yet. [Variety] ...
Every Movie to Be Nominated For Best Picture!
Vulture —
... and the usual speculation that this year's overall field of awards contenders could be weak, the Academy has made the bold decision to increase this year's number of Best Picture nominees from 5 to 10, meaning pretty much anything half-acclaimed and released by a studio with the money for a campaign has a pretty decent shot. So is this finally Pixar's year? We can't wait to see Michael Bay's "For Your Consideration" ads! ...
Oscar Expands Best Picture Nomination to 10 for Next Year’s Awards
mjsbigblog —
From Variety:
Oscar is opening up his playing field in a big way next year.
The Motion Picture Academy announced Wednesday that for the first time in more than 65 years, the field of best picture nominees will be expanded to 10 contenders for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
“Having 10 best picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have ...
Academy Expands Best Picture Nominees to 10
Cinematical —
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going to pull a Sir Mix-A-Lot and "Uh! Double up, uh uh!" the Best Picture category next year with ten nominees instead of the usual five. That's twice as many nominations as before, although it seems to only be limited to the Best Picture category, which is a shame because opening up at least the major categories could make things a lot more interesting. The announcement on Variety today was extremely short, but the Academy has a press release up already ...
Ten Best Picture nominees for Oscars
kottke.org —
... Whoa, next year there will be ten nominated films up for the Best Picture Oscar instead of the customary five. I'd love to see a statistical analysis of how different the results are between long nominee lists and shorter subsets. (via ...
Oscars expand Best Picture category to 10 nominees
Come Back Shane! —
... “Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize.” [Variety] ...
