Best Picture Noms

For years I argued that the Oscars were making a mistake with the Best Picture category by having five films duke it out, regardless of its type. Comedies and dramas are so different that it's difficult, if not impossible, to judge them against each other. Two years ago they expanded the number of nominees to ten in an effort to expand the types of movies that make the nomination list.
This week they decided to scrap that system and go to something new. Starting next year there can be anywhere from 5-10 Best Picture nominated films. The process goes like this:

• First, all the ballots are separated into separate stacks according to which film is listed as a first choice.
• Second, any movies that reach the five percent threshold are automatic nominees. Their stacks are then redistributed to their second or third choices according to a mathmatical formula. Their second or third choices count as partial votes when added to the remaining stacks.
• Third, at the opposite ends of the spectrum, those movies that have received less than one percent of the vote also see their stacks redistributed to their second if still available, or third choice if still available, etc.

At that point, the redistribution stops. The movies that have reached the five percent mark all become nominees.

They've gone back through past votes and shown that between 2001 and 2008 this would have resulted in each number of noms between 5 and ten. So we really could have a strange number come up next year. In theory this could result in either 4 or 11 as well and I don't see anything in the article that would prevent that.
If I could make a suggestion here, I wouldn't mind it if they simply capped the number of movies at five and then figured out a different way to showcase the other movies. My idea is that they simply set up a montage of Honorable Mentions, with extended clips of each. If the idea is to promote and sell movies this would do it. (I'm sure interest in 'Winter's Bone' went up about 800% after people could finally get some idea of what the heck it was.) Then they could still concentrate on the 'big' five and keep the field at a manageable level.