10 Nominees to Compete for Best Picture!
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that there will be 10 nominees vying for Best Picture at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ceremony. Not since 1944, when Casablanca was named the Best Picture of 1943, has the Academy nominated 10 films for its top prize.
From the release:
“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said (AMPAS President Sid) Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.”
I just feel bad for the guys who have to build the stage for the press conference. Ten TV screens instead of five is totally going to screw up the flow.
Keep on spinning Sid:
“Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to 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,” commented Ganis. “I can’t wait to see what that list of ten looks like when the nominees are announced in February.”
The Academy is on a search for credibility after 2008’s lowest rated show ever, followed by the snub heard round the world in 2009. Leaving out The Dark Knight, overrated as the picture may have been, was apparently the straw the broke this camel’s back. But having an old camel learn new tricks will be the key. Do you really think that Terminator 2, The Matrix, Spider-Man or Pirates of the Caribbean would have made the cut if there had been 10 nominees the year they were released? Hardly.
If films like Up, Star Trek, and the upcoming Avatar miss out when the nominations are announced on Feb. 2, 2010, the Academy will just as irrelevant to the public as it is today. You know what’s worse than five pictures up for Oscar that no one has seen? Ten nominees that no one has seen.
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