the academy of motion picture arts will feature 10 nominees for the best picture category instead of the current 5.

why this doesn’t matter:
1. personally, i do not watch. since i don’t watch them, they obviously don’t matter.
2. we have no idea if this will effect the outcome of the best picture winner. statistically it should, but then again, we have no idea how close the tallies have historically been anyway. we actually have very little idea how the academy works. it’s the era of obama. transparency, people!
3. will this improve the academy’s relevance to the rest of the world? um, no. the same 6,000 people are voting, and their taste is just as out-of-touch as last year.

why it does matter:
1. we assume this will include more mainstream movies. dark knight and wall-e were excluded from last year’s list, but frost/nixon made it? i didn’t watch frost/nixon, but come on.
2. more mainstream movies will mean higher ratings for the telecast since the tv people assume people will want to watch an award show with films they’ve actually seen. or heard of. “the reader? isn’t that the one w/ kate winslet’s giant nipples?”
3. higher ratings means more money for abc. maybe.
4. the telecast will be thatmuch longer. ugh.
5. five more movies will get a PR bump. while the “awesomeness” of a nomination will likely be diluted, at least for now, it will be a boon for the films that might not have made the cut previously.

so in conclusion, winners = abc and movie studios; losers = the integrity of the academy? i just laughed out loud at what i just wrote.

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