Best Picture Noms at 10
Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 24th, 2009
2009
Jun 24
ACADEMY NEWS
Academy Awards, in bid for populism, doubles Best Picture nominations to 10
Los Angeles Times
June 24, 2009
The Academy Awards just grew twice as crowded at the top. For the first time since 1943, 10 movies — instead of the current five — will be nominated for the best picture Oscar.
The surprise announcement today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences means that some acclaimed genres that typically don’t make the shortlist for the top Academy Award — animated movies, comedies, documentaries and crowd-pleasing spectacles such as “The Dark Knight” — will now have a much better chance of being invited to Hollywood’s biggest party.
The number of nominees in other major categories will remain at five.
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