Comments on: Breaking Oscar News: Best Picture Nominee List Expanded

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[...] last year saw the expansion of the contentious Best Picture category grow to 10 nominees after a year of major snubs, to help bring in mainstream viewership and ratings, this Oscar [...]

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SR Pick: Honest Movie Posters - Screen Rant — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:32:12 +0000

[...] it was a solid enough show with many improvements from previous years. One of the big changes was the expansion of the Best Picture category from 5 nominees to 10, which at first I didn’t like although it actually worked well in the [...]

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[...] Keep in mind, this year’s structure of the awards in key categories will be slightly different. The big change of course comes with the attempt at increasing ratings and hype surrounding the major category of Best Picture where for the first time since the forties there will be not 5 nominees, but 10! [...]

By: Belmont Dude

Belmont Dude — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:43:09 +0000

10 Best Picture nominees is a bit heavy. However, if the list was a 5 dramatic and 5 Comedy/Romance compilation (as in Golden Globes) then maye b have something. Directors could also be recognized in a similar manner. Then maybe Actors, Actresses… where would this end?

By: Belmont Dude

Belmont Dude — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:43:09 +0000

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[...] two months ago, it was announced that the Best Picture category at the Oscars™ was expanding from five to ten nominees, making it more likely for those “close, but no cigar” movies (such as The Dark Knight [...]

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[...] in a similar February date back in 1991. And now that the Academy has expanded the amount of Best Picture nominees from five to ten, it will be easier for the film to get an [...]

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Happy Harry Potter Day Muggles! - Screen Rant — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:49:45 +0000

[...] said the same thing about The Dark Knight around this time last year – but now that the Academy has widened the Best Picture catergory to a whopping ten nominees, Harry Potter might actually have the chance that Batman never [...]

By: Daniel F

Daniel F — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:36:19 +0000

With all due respect Jessie if you use the best picture noms as movie you have to see you must be disappointed alot especial this year. With films like Milk. TDK was a great film and was better than half the movies on that list. Personally I loved TDK, but I think it’s more of a comment about how horrible 2008 was for movies than how great TDK was. The Wrestler was great, but there really wasn’t much else.

My response to upping to 10. It’s just what the oscars needed..More losers.

By: Woolycaveman

Woolycaveman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:43:37 +0000

@ Ross miller

Well yeah I’m glad they get the recognition, and I would hate to see them get nothing because of a removal of the award, I’m just saying what they have said regarding the categorization of animated films. Wow that didn’t make any sense at all…

By: Joakim Möller

Joakim Möller — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:47:15 +0000

This is just stupid.
It would be better to expand the number of nominees if needed, so that it could range between 5-10 nominees. Would be a better solution

By: Ross Miller

Ross Miller — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:45:00 +0000

@Woolycaveman,

I realise that and totally agree with them. But without the Best Animated Feature catagory, the Academy wouldn’t suddenly treat them like every other movie. Isn’t it better they get SOMETHING than NOTHING?

By: d

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:15:27 +0000

I think they should be imparcial and honest enough to recognise the best movies of the year and not any specific number of them..
That would make it harder to select the movies, but at least it would be more fair. In a poor year we’d have less candidates and in a great one we’d have more..
This way a great movie could always hope to get a nod instead of counting if it will make into the top 5 or 10.
And by comparison we wouldn’t have nominations just to achieved a given number.

But then again, after watching Chicago I can’t have much faith in the Academy..

By: 790

790 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:08:15 +0000

Excellent point GK333,,,,

By: Woolycaveman

Woolycaveman — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:28:29 +0000

Actually Pixar would rather abolish the “Best Animated Film” category as they say they would rather have their films treated like regular movies and not put in some strange category. Brad Bird has been saying that for years.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:07:12 +0000

How LONG will the telcast be NOW?
Ten clips To introduce the films ?
How far does this go?