Sid Ganis, president of the American Motion Picture Academy, today announced that from next year's Oscars there will be 10 Best Picture nominees instead of the usual five. Now, while an expanded field would, in the past, probably have meant nominations for such critically acclaimed films such as Zodiac, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, and Children Of Men (all big favourites of mine you might recall), as well as a spot for those Pixar movies forever snubbed by Academy voters and parceled off into the Best Animated Feature category, it does strike me as a trifle ridiculous to include quite so many. Will the Best Director category be equally bloated? And what if there aren't ten films good enough to warrant being nominated in any particular year? Now there's a thought...
Wednesday 24 June 2009
What the %$*&
Sid Ganis, president of the American Motion Picture Academy, today announced that from next year's Oscars there will be 10 Best Picture nominees instead of the usual five. Now, while an expanded field would, in the past, probably have meant nominations for such critically acclaimed films such as Zodiac, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, and Children Of Men (all big favourites of mine you might recall), as well as a spot for those Pixar movies forever snubbed by Academy voters and parceled off into the Best Animated Feature category, it does strike me as a trifle ridiculous to include quite so many. Will the Best Director category be equally bloated? And what if there aren't ten films good enough to warrant being nominated in any particular year? Now there's a thought...
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Terrible idea.
I don't really understand why they would do that. The more film you nominated, the less the price is valuable. And sometimes, it's already very hard to chose... now it'll be harder! And indeed, what if there is no ten films good enough to be in the race? Is it about money again?
I'm not sure it's about money, certainly not where the studios are concerned because they're now going to have to spend millions more dollars on Oscar campaigns for movies that in all probability won't have a chance of winning. Just what they needed in such hard financial times.
The only people it might help are the smaller distributors and those foreign movies that never get nominated for Best Picture.
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