That's your opinion, Russ, and you are entitled. I had and have no problem with the five pictures voted on by the nominating committee. Though I like and admire most of the films you named, I wouldn't call them "better" than 3 of the 5 nominees, though certainly some of them are nomination-worthy, no question. I believe that once the Academy gets through next season-- with huge egg on their collective faces when the non-win of "Transformers 2" causes riots on the red carpet.....well, we'll see!! Joe B in NOLA
ed, 6/24/09, Russ Butner <[email protected]> wrote: From: Russ Butner <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOPO] AMPAS - 2010 Oscars expands to 10 Best Picture Nominees (from 5). To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 11:50 PM The best picture category is in fact open to films from around the world as long as they play for a week in LA. In my opinion this opens up the category to much better films that tend to fall through the cracks. For instance the best picture nominees from 2008 probably would have included worthy films like The Dark Knight, The Wrestler, Iron Man, Wall-E and may have even included some exceptional films like Happy-Go-Lucky, In Bruges, Man on Wire, Gomorrah, Frozen River and Burn After Reading. There are 10 films right there that were better than at least 3 of the 5 that were nominated. Russ On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Phil Edwards wrote: I'm thinking REALLY REALLY hard here, and trying to think of 10 movies worthy of Best Picture nomination... unless they open Best Picture up to world wide. But Joe is right. The "Oscars" are clearly now more about a TV show and ad revenue than anything AMPAS might have thought of. Just one more example of supermarketing "art". Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Bonelli To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:19 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] AMPAS - 2010 Oscars expands to 10 Best Picture Nominees (from 5). But the "public" will NOT be satisfied until the Oscars are American Idol!!! What a cop-out for the Academy. Joe B in NOLA --- On Wed, 6/24/09, David Kusumoto <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Kusumoto <[email protected]> Subject: [MOPO] AMPAS - 2010 Oscars expands to 10 Best Picture Nominees (from 5). To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 1:56 PM FYI, just out today. Next year's Oscars -- for the first time since 1943 -- will expand from 5 nominees for Best Picture -- to 10. -d. ============================= June 24, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Teni Melidonian – (310) 247-3090 [email protected] 82nd Academy Awards® to Feature 10 Best Picture Nominees Beverly Hills, CA — The 82nd Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 7, 2010, will have 10 feature films vying in the Best Picture category, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced today (June 24) at a press conference in Beverly Hills. “After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.” For more than a decade during the Academy’s earlier years, the Best Picture category welcomed more than five films; for nine years there were 10 nominees. The 16th Academy Awards (1943) was the last year to include a field of that size; “Casablanca” was named Best Picture. (In 1931/32, there were eight nominees and in 1934 and 1935 there were 12 nominees.) Currently, the Academy is presenting a bicoastal screening series showcasing the 10 Best Picture nominees of 1939, arguably one of Hollywood’s greatest film years. Best Picture nominees of that year include such diverse classics as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Stagecoach,” “The Wizard of Oz” and Best Picture winner “Gone with the Wind.” “Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories, but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize,” commented Ganis. “I can’t wait to see what that list of ten looks like when the nominees are announced in February.” The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2. 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