Comments on: WTF? Next Year’s Oscars Will Include 10 Best Picture Nominees

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:43:41 +0000

maybe they just want to increase viewership.

And if that means Where the Wild Things Are gets a best picture nomination, it's fine by me.

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:29:24 +0000

I'm not sure we should get excited and assume they're going to include animated, foreign and documentaries in the category. I'm not sure they think like that. I'll be surprised if "Up" gets nominated. But I hope I'm wrong.

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:52:50 +0000

It's a cynical decision, but good things will come of it. The critical community needs to widen the discussion of what constitutes "the best film of the year," so foreign, animated, and even action pictures should be welcome. Plus, more suspense, which is nice.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:33:51 +0000

Really, you're going to pull the old juvenile move of dissecting/quoting my comment to tear it down? And you're going to do it anonymously? Grow some balls.

1. I'm talking REAL crap. Not mediocre movies. The Academy doesn't usually nominate 5 pieces of crap. They nominate 3 good (not necessarily great) films and maybe 2 mediocre films at the worst. If new development happened last year, I'm talking like "Mamma Mia" getting a nomination. That bad.

2. The Academy doesn't usually get it right, I totally agree with that. But they do have a SHRED of credibility; otherwise, you wouldn't be on here even commenting. Admit it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:53:55 +0000

"You know that this means at least one piece of pure crap will be nominated."

As opposed to usual 4 or 5?

"And you know what then? The Academy will lose all credibility."

In related news, Dick Cheney may also be losing his credibility. Sure he was awesomel as VP, but now I don't know what to think!

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:36:28 +0000

Depresses is a big exaggeration, but it bums me out. If it opens up room for things like The Hurt Locker, awesome. But Up is now almost guaranteed a Best Picture nom as an apology for overlooking Wall-E, but neither were Best Picture films.

It's just a dumb reaction to satisfy the fan outrage over the TDK and Wall-E snub, and it's a bit sad to see them pandering like that.

But yeah, that said, it'll make things pretty interesting this year if they don't open up the floodgates to crap. It remains to be seen though.

It still does feel like an MTV Movies Award move, not the Oscars. Yeah, it is a dumb meat parade awards show, but if you love movies a lot, you do care about it on some level, especially when they occasionally do the right thing.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:22:17 +0000

Agree with James, that would be wonderful.

If this extension allows for the really smaller beautiful ones to get through, that would be fantastic and the change would be justified. But that's probably not how it's going to work out — it will probably be really mediocre crappy films – as usual – and not the truly deserving ones. I would love to be proven wrong.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:21:34 +0000

"the most depressing news of the last few weeks."

You're that upset over an award show? Give me a break, anyone who actually looks up to the academy in the least bit (especially recently) needs to learn that even with 5 nominees the couldn't even get the nomination correct. At least this way a good movie might actually have a chance of fitting in.

True they probably didn't it as a reaction for fans of films like Batman not getting nominated but who cares in the end. It's just an award show!

By: stephen

stephen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:02 +0000

Why stop there? They should expand the "In Memoriam" to "People we keep thinking are already dead." Imagine the nationwide gasps when people realize, "Holy shit, Karl Malden is still fucking alive?"

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:00:20 +0000

If they're going to expand to ten nominations, they should get rid of best foreign picture and try to include more 'international' selections for best picture.

I realize this is an American production, but some international flair wouldn't hurt.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:45:54 +0000

New categories have been introduced since the Oscar's inception, but if they're gonna do shit like this they should at least think about best first feature.

God, can you imagine all that crap that's going to get nominated this year for best pic? The Oscar picks bubble on every Oscar site just exploded.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:26:26 +0000

in the 1930s, you dork.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:25:53 +0000

Category that originally had ten-ish nominees to have ten nominees again. News at 11.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:20:17 +0000

Seriously, it feels like a reaction to that and if the nerds win, we lose.

This has seriously been the most depressing news of the last few weeks. Maybe it's also because i see terrible change all around. I'm all for evolution, but this is a little much.

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:17:30 +0000

Possible backlash for Dark Knight not getting a best picture nod? Maybe the nerds finally took over.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:49:42 +0000

The MTV Movie Awards comment is fair. I don't know what they're thinking, it's ludicrous. Bit of sad day even. I honestly feel like, everyone's dumbing down beyond belief and it's all happening at once.

By: Eliza

Eliza — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:47:56 +0000

You know that this means at least one piece of pure crap will be nominated. And you know what then? The Academy will lose all credibility. Maybe add one or two, but doubling it?? I wouldn't even expect this from the MTV Movie Awards.

By: Lookf4r

Lookf4r — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:27:25 +0000

I guess they feel really sad about snubbing defiance last year or something. This way they can make sure to nominate every period piece.