The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today that the Best Picture race is getting bigger. Instead of the traditional five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, AMPAS will now allow ten. The new rule is effective starting this year, meaning films like Up, Star Trek and others may end up being nominated for The Oscars top prize, even though their genres are usually ignored. This could be a shock of the life to The Academy Awards, bringing in new, younger viewers who are rooting on their favorite films.
I don’t know how I feel about this. I agree that The Oscars regularly ignore truly great films (The Dark Knight anybody?) but ten films means we will probably get a few that are probably just filler. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong. I’ll tell you right now that if Up doesn’t get nominated for Best Picture under these new rules then something is truly wrong in the world.
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