Comments on: Academy Awards Expand Number of Best Picture Nominess to 10

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:55:16 +0000

hooray, perhaps In The Loop could get nominated!

By: TotallyNotNick

TotallyNotNick — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:57:38 +0000

True, but by the end of the year people’s Top 10 Lists tend to look the same. Theoritcally, a critc’s entire Best of the Year list could be nominated for Best Picture. Again, its still summer and most award-season movies don’t open until the Fall, so I guess it won’t be until then that anyone can start predicting Oscar noms.

By: Polygon_Wizard

Polygon_Wizard — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:15:40 +0000

Expanding it to ten nominees will probably do nothing to change the quality of what gets nominated…there will just be more of them. There will always be movies left out that most people think should have been included. It happens every year, and it will continue to happen, despite having more nomination slots.

By: Rosa

Rosa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:45:47 +0000

I don’t know, I think this is less about giving pictures their due and more about advertising dollars check this out to see what I mean: http://www.newsy.com/videos/oscars_and_then_there_were_ten
I think this could hurt the award if spare movies start to get nominated. But then again every year I find myself saying ” I think x movie should have been nominated…”