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JamesG
06-25-2009, 06:19 AM
Oscars Double Up Best Films For 2010
24 June 2009 3:01 PM, PDT
The organisers of the Oscars have doubled up the Best Film category for next year's Academy Awards.
Ten movies will be shortlisted for the big prize at the 82nd Oscars in March.
Explaining the shift, Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis says, "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.
"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."
An average of 10 films competed annually for the top prize for the first 16 years of the Oscars and the last classic to win gold after beating out nine other movies was Casablanca in 1943.
Ganis adds, "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognise 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."
-IMDB News
comedyfreak
06-25-2009, 08:07 AM
Right, but other great films have already been cheated. Is this to make up for it, if it is it's too little too late imo.
Schmoopie
06-26-2009, 05:06 AM
Perhaps the Academy should get smart and start looking at movies that were released Jan-December, instead of just the latest movies. That is why I can't stand the Academy Awards much. It seems that movies released earlier in the year always get shafted, no matter how good they are. I was really surprised when Julia Roberts was nominated for "Erin Brockovich". She completely deserved her Oscar for that film (it was wonderful) but it was released on St Patrick's Day and I figured the Academy would have long forgotten it. Glad they remembered, though.
Andrea
Jude The Obscure
06-27-2009, 12:10 AM
Why isn't there Best Picture-Drama and Best Picture-Comedy/musical like the Golden Globes? The Academy has long shafted comedy in the Best Picture category.
Marvo301
06-27-2009, 12:38 AM
Well it's about time! I've always said the Academy Awards show is way too short and they need to find a way to make it longer, you know, stretch it out. It should be 5-6 hours long at least. They're finally on the right track!!
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browneyes106
06-27-2009, 03:10 AM
I don't think this is a good idea. Either way there will still be fans and critics upset about movies not getting nominated.
Why isn't there Best Picture-Drama and Best Picture-Comedy/musical like the Golden Globes? The Academy has long shafted comedy in the Best Picture category.
What about Annie Hall, It Happened One Night, and An American in Paris?
I know what you mean though. They definately favor the artsy dramas. They did discuss splitting the Best Picture category, but it was struck down quickly, as everyone believes there should just be one winner of the big prize.
10 is an awful lot of films. Why did they have to double it? Couldn't they have gone to 7 or 8? It's gonna cost me a lot of money to see all the nominated films next year :crazy:
Perhaps the Academy should get smart and start looking at movies that were released Jan-December, instead of just the latest movies. That is why I can't stand the Academy Awards much. It seems that movies released earlier in the year always get shafted, no matter how good they are. I was really surprised when Julia Roberts was nominated for "Erin Brockovich". She completely deserved her Oscar for that film (it was wonderful) but it was released on St Patrick's Day and I figured the Academy would have long forgotten it. Glad they remembered, though.
Andrea
Traditionally the beginning of the year is the famous dumping ground for films that they don't expect to win any prizes. They know it's a long time before their nominations so you'll see more of the teeny-bopper films and sequals come out at that time. There are exceptions of course, Erin Brockovich being a big one. Normally studios will hold off their big films until the summer or winter months. Doubt would have been completely forgotten if it had been released the previous Spring.
JamesG
06-30-2009, 08:17 AM
Academy Awards Bosses Move Honorary Prize To November Dinner
29 June 2009 6:31 PM, PDT
The winners of the Academy Awards' honorary trophies are to get their own gala in November.
In an effort to cut the length of the Oscars, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and the Honorary Award will be handed out four months before the big event.
The winners of the honours will be announced in September, and the awards will be presented at a dinner in November.
In another change to normal Oscars practice, officials at the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced that all potential Best Song composers will have to pass a quality control test before their tune is even shortlisted.
New rules for the 82nd Academy Awards in March state all tracks must achieve a minimum score of 8.25 on a scale of 6 to 10 in voting by members of the Academy’s music branch. If songs fail to reach that target, there will be no Best Song category.
Last week (ends26Jun09), Oscars bosses revealed 10 movies, not five, will feature on the final Best Film shortlist.
-IMDB News
^ This makes Liza very unhappy ^
:mad:
So you're telling me that when the Academy finally gets around to giving an honorary Oscar out to Doris Day, Christopher Lee, and Marni Nixon nobody's gonna see it???? WTF???? That's so not right. It's the one chance the Academy has to make up for hideous oversights (like Peter O'Toole, Barbara Stanwyck, and Deborah Kerr). How can they take it out just to shorten the show?
Here's an idea - how about cutting all those stupid overblown productions that nobody likes anyways? Every year they try to be "creative" and "give them something new" and every year they blow it. Remember Beyonce singing "Puttin on my top hat" last year? Or the costume design fashion show in '96? The dance routines to go along with original score? Or (my personal favorite) Rob Lowe singing with Snow White? :eek: They should just let it go.
Why not just 6 nominees? Or 7?
The Academy is trying to throw a bone to the viewing public, because The Dark Knight, an andience and critic favorite should have been nominated for Best Picture last year but the Academy snubbed it.
The Academy wants to tighten the gap between what the people like and what is nominated for an Oscar.
So this means we'll see plenty of "For Your Consideration" ads for The Proposal this fall.
;)
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