Wednesday, June 24, 2009

You've heard of "Cop Land?" Here's a big cop out

So the Academy wants to expand the best picture nominations to 10 movies. Sure, why not? I mean, why trouble yourselves to actually exercise better judgment and generally get your sh*t together with the five nominations?

This way, you can just throw everything into the mix. Hell, it's like the NBA or NHL playoffs, when losing teams make the cut. With 10 films, how long before there's a successful campaign to squeeze something like "The Love Guru" in there?

1 Comments:

At 12:37 AM, Anonymous Soo Pod Ray said...

Not sure I have strong feelings one way or the other on this. No matter where the cutoff is, somebody always just misses out and feels dissed. But there is precedent -- don't think the Academy limited the BP nominees to five until the '40s. Until then, it was unlimited and there were usually nine or 10 or 11 nominated for BP.

 

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