http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2009/06/24/more-oscars-kinda Comments On: More Oscars! Kinda. by Benjamin Sutton en-us Copyright 2013 The L Magazine. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The L Magazine readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The L Magazine. editor@thelmagazine.com (The L Magazine Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 04:15:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Benjamin Sutton]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:56:08 -0400 The L Magazine
On one hand, picking five movies instead of ten seems arbitrary when most critics deal in ten-best lists, and having ten instead of five increases the likelihood of recognition of the types of movies that should've been nominated but were just a little too entertaining (Dark Knight, Wall-E, Almost Famous) or a little too smart/arty (Eternal Sunshine, Children of Men, Zodiac). It could also theoretically up the vote-splitting/unpredictability factor.

But as others have pointed out, if you have ten Best Picture nominees and keep everything else at five, well, then, the frontrunners will be pretty obvious if you look at the Best Director nominees.
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