Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Are There Ten 'Best Picture' Candidates Most Years?

Hollywood is expanding the Oscar balloting to ten "Best Picture" nominees.

Still only one "Best Picture" Oscar though.

Three thoughts:

1. There are many years where coming up with five "Best Picture" nominees is a stretch. In fact, I think this drought of great movies is more common these days than not.

2. I used to pride myself on seeing all the "Best Picture" nominees. In recent years, I have abandoned that quest because of the aforementioned lack of quality. It has left a nagging sense of guilt, however, and the decision to expand the category will only aggravate it.

3. Doesn't increasing the number of nominees increase the likelihood that a clunker will be named "Best Picture"?


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