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Oscars Double Up Best Films For 2010
24 June 2009 3:01 PM, PDT
The organisers of the Oscars have doubled up the Best Film category for next year's Academy Awards.
Ten movies will be shortlisted for the big prize at the 82nd Oscars in March.
Explaining the shift, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis says, "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.
"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."
An average of 10 films competed annually for the top prize for the first 16 years of the Oscars and the last classic to win gold after beating out nine other movies was Casablanca in 1943.
Ganis adds, "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognise 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."
From IMDB.com
Wow. This is such a bad idea I don't even know where to start. This seems to come for one reason and one reason only: The Dark Knight. the argument will be that if tehre were five extra slots open this past year, TDK would have won. There's a reason it wasn't nominated: the Academy didn't think it was good enough. get over yourselves Warner Brothers.
Do we need this by any stretch of the imagination? I'd certainly think not. By having the traditional 5, it allows there to be a tight race for the title. With ten, it makes the award seem so watered down. Think of it like in wrestling. If you have ten guys fighting for the world title, things just get messed up. Five might be a stretch, but ten is just absurd. Too much gets lost in the shuffle and there's way too much to debate over. I get the spirit of competition, but this is ridiculous. What do you think? Gone With The Wind greatness, or Leprechaun 5 level of suck?