Michael Giltz: Next Year's Oscars Will Have Ten Best Picture Nominees http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/next-years-oscars-will-ha_b_220253.html [7/21/2009 5:43:25 PM] JULY 21, 2009 HOME POLITICS MEDIA BUSINESS ENTERTAINMENT LIVING STYLE GREEN WORLD COMEDY 23/6 NEW YORK CHICAGO VIDEO BLOGGER INDEX ARCHIVE Make HuffPost Your HomePage Get Email Alerts Michael Giltz Freelance writer and raconteur Posted: June 24, 2009 01:44 PM BIO Become a Fan Get EmailAlerts Bloggers'Index Next Year's Oscars Will Have Ten Best Picture Nominees Read More: Academy Awards , Movies, Oscars, The Dark Knight , Entertainment News The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and ABC announced today that the Oscars will expand its Best Picture list to 10 films for next year's ceremony.</p><p> They're pitching it as a return totradition but in fact the last time 10 films were nominated for Best Picture was in 1943 when Casablanca won the top prize. (Hmm, since that one triumphed, maybe it's not such a bad idea.) Obviously, they're still smarting from last year's ceremony when critically acclaimed and wildly popular movies like The Dark Knight and WALL- E weren't in the running.</p><p> But what do you think? Is this going to cheapen the prestige of being nominated for Best Picture? Or will it broaden the appeal of the Oscars and let the list of nomineesactually reflect the range of good movies shown throughout the year? To refresh your memory, the five nominees for Best Picture from 2008 were:The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Frost/NixonMilkThe Reader Slumdog Millionare With of course, Slumdog becoming top dog.</p><p> Now based strictly on total number of nominations in every category, if the top nominees became the top picks for Best Picture, the list last year might have been: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button ChangelingThe Dark Knight Pals: Mischa Barton Struggled with Body Issues READ MORE Hailey Glassman Gushes over Jon Gosselin READ MORE Demi Lovato and Trace Cyrus Split READ MORE More Celebrity News at People.com Popular Stories on HuffPost Nude In NY: Where To Strut With No Stuff (NSFW PHOTOS, POLL) Believe it or not getting nude in NY isn't such a hard feat.</p><p> There are...</p><p> UPDATE: 'Sprite Oral Sex Ad' Was Unauthorized(VIDEO) UPDATE 5:00 PM ET Thedirector of the fake Sprite ad, Max Issacson, has sent...BIG NEWS : Michael Jackson | Jon & Kate Plus 8 | Sports | Farrah Fawcett | More...</p><p> LOG IN | SIGN UP Be the First to Submit This Story to Digg Get Breaking News Alerts Share Print Comments never spam Hailey Glassman: Jon Gosselin Is A 'Great Cook,' Parents 'Love Him' More in Entertainment: Baldwin Bankruptcy...</p><p> MJ's Criminal Memorial...</p><p> Hollywood's Hot Old Men...</p><p> Samantha Ronson Throws Lindsay Lohan's Clothes Into The Street Michael Giltz: Next Year's Oscars Will Have Ten Best Picture Nominees http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/next-years-oscars-will-ha_b_220253.html [7/21/2009 5:43:25 PM] digg it142 diggs Obama Calls On Bloggers To Keep Health CarePressure On Congress digg it22 diggs Palin Implicated In EthicsProbe digg it54 diggs Internal RNC Memo:"Engage In Every Activity"To Slow Down Health CareReform digg it30 diggs Jeff Sharlet RevealsDisturbing Details AboutConservative "C StreetHouse" Organization OnRachel Maddow Show(VIDEO) www.REI.com/FindOut Comments 5 Pending Comments 0 Sarah Jessica Parker And Matthew Broderick's Night...</p><p> Tom Cruise And Kids Join Beckham Family...</p><p> Samantha Ronson Throws Lindsay Lohan's Clothes Into...</p><p> Kate Major: Jon Gosselin's Night Out With...Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The ReaderRevolutionary RoadSlumdog Millionaire WALL-E Is that a more exciting list? Of course, nominations don't mean you will automatically make it on the list for Best Picture.</p><p> Other acclaimed films that might have made it onto the Best Picture list include: Happy-Go-Lucky Iron Man Waltz With Bashir The Wrestler If the list means popular and acclaimed films like WALL-E and The Dark Knight are in the mix, it'll be a success.</p><p> If it just means more art house films like Doubt and Revolutionary Road, the list will rightly be seen as more of the same.</p><p> Next year, if UP is not nominated for Best Picture, there will rightly be an outcry.</p><p> Almost as loud an outcry if something commercially successful but godawful like Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen does make it.</p><p> So what do you think about this radical change by the Oscars? 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Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to View Comments: Newest First Expand All 3fingerbrown I'm a Fan of 3fingerbrown permalink A 10-movie field sure came in handy in 1939.</p><p> These were the nominees: Dark Victory Gone With the Wind Goodbye, Mr.</p><p> Chips Love Affair Mr.</p><p> Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Of Mice and Men Stagecoach The Wizard of Oz Wuthering Heights Of course, not every year is 1939. there were a few years in the '80s when it was tough to scrape up 5 worthy nominees.</p><p> BlackJAC I'm a Fan of BlackJAC permalink Given this year's questionable slate, I doubt this will play out well.</p><p> Giada I'm a Fan of Giada permalink Added The Visitor twice Rachel Getting Married Xenussister I'm a Fan of Xenussister permalink I think it's a great idea, and I like your list.</p><p> I'd switch out Revolutionary Road for The Wrestler though.</p><p> I love the actors and the director, but RR was not better than The Wrestler.</p><p> I keptthinking, just move back to New York, you morons.</p><p> My own, laughably unrealistic, list: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button ChangelingThe Dark KnightThe FallFrozen RiverIn BrugeMilkSlumdog MillionaireTropic Thunder (I know I know, I *said* it was unrealistic)WALL-EThe Wrestler I know that list has some iffy titles.</p><p> Tropic Thunder is not "better" than Doubt, which is a very good movie and deserved its nomination.</p><p> It's just that I enjoyed TT more.</p><p> I'm glad Robert Downey Jr. gotnominated and I wasn't upset that the movie itself didn't get nominated.</p><p> The Fall is not a great movie,but it did have the best performance by an actress, and was the most visually stunning movie of thepast several years.</p><p> In other threads, people are saying there weren't enough good movies.</p><p> That's crazy talk.</p><p> I saw 170 movies in the theater last year and STILL missed some excellent movies I wish I had seen (like Snow Lindsay Lohan Video Michael Jackson Cars Transparency iPhone Religion Iraq Sarah Palin MORE BIG NEWS PAGES » Books by this author On the ball: with his new play All That I Will EverBe, a post-Six Feet UnderAlan Ball proves there'slife afterdeath.(THEATER): Anarticle from: The ... 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