Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Expanded Oscars

The Oscar people are expanding the Best Picture nominees to 10 starting next year. That's twice as many as they've had for the past sixty some years. Coincidentally, that's how long the award broadcast will now last.
Does that mean that they'll follow my advice and split the award between dramas and comedies?
Mr. Ganis said that no changes had been made to other Oscar categories. He also emphasized that the nominees would not be subdivided, as with the Golden Globes, which are awarded for best drama as well as best comedy or musical. All 10 nominees will compete for one best-picture award.
Nope. Still, if this means that 'Up' can move out of the Animated category and compete with the big boys, that makes me happy. Also found this interesting from the article:
In all about 300 films were eligible for awards in 2008. Were that to hold going forward, roughly one of every 30 films would become a best-picture nominee.
That makes it sound like overkill. And it also means that if I did the movie project for the 10's I'd have to watch a full 100 movies. (Of course by that time I'd probably be toddler free and would have time to watch them again...)
I'm curious what the list will look like.

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