(photo from WireImage)
The
Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences announced today that they are expand the amount of Best Picture nominations from 5 to 10.
“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 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.â€
“Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going 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.â€
Yeah right, come February we will be stuck once again with 10 movies vying for Best Picture that most of the world has not seen nor do they ever plan on seeing. I know the Academy is trying to find a way to get people interested in the Oscars again and nominating 10 films is not the answer. Not only because it is going to make the broadcast even longer than it already was with tributes to each of the 10 movie, but because they are not going to pick movies that the general public wants to see. Instead of picking movies that only come out in very limited release in the last days of December just to be nominated, pick movies that come out throughout the year that people went to see over and over again. This year so far we have Star Trek and Up and coming up in the next few months we have Public Enemies and Inglourious Basterds. May the people who are deciding which 10 movies will be going for Hollywood’s highest honor, stop choosing extremely boring movies that barely anyone saw before the show and will only see once because that is as many times as you can watch them like Crash, No Country for Old Men and The Departed (I had to look up the winners on Wikipedia) and try to remember the days when you choose movies like Titanic, Forrest Gump and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Movies people saw and continue to watch today. The Oscar should go to movies that have made an impact and will continue to make an impact in the future. Because the last few winner have been forgotten almost as soon as the winners walked off the stage. They have been movies the general movie goer can’t root for. Stop being such elitists and remember the Oscars are not only about the people who vote for the winners, it is about movie goers all over the world! So vote as the average movie goer would and we will back watching the show full force no matter who is hosting. But it would be nice to have either Billy Crystal or Hugh Jackman back for the show when it airs on March 7th!
BTW I chose that picture of the Oscar statues wrapped in plastic because that is how I feel when I hear who is nominated and a few weeks later watching the show…suffocated!!!
