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I was half-joking guys. I really wouldn't expect them to nominate seven films from The Weinstein Company, but I believe that they will be the only people who will benefit from this decision. The Academy has been obviously feeing sympathy for them due to their lack of success without Disney. First nominating The Reader over several better and more deserving films (such as Wall-E, The Dark Knight, Gran Torino and The Wrestler) and now this.

Come January, expect Nine to emerge as an Oscar favorite solely because there are ten nominees and not because the film is any good. In fact, I see Nine as a pointless remake of 8 1/2 and a film that will get trumped by the "other" 9. A lot of people are also suggesting that The Road will also get a Best Picture nomination. I can't see it happening though since the Academy rarely likes widely released horror or sci-fi (unless it's ghosts or serial killers).

I think this will be a good opportunity for the academy to offend even more filmmakers by giving them the ability to find more less deserving ones.

I don't know what you guys are talking about, you really don't think that there is 10 great films released every year? Every year, film critics and fans talk about snubs and this is the only way to try and recognize more great movies.

Just look at a list of movies that people considered snubbed for Best Picture last year:

Gran Torino
Wendy & Lucy
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
Che
Happy-Go-Lucky
Revolutionary Road
Rachel Getting Married

etc

Man On Wire. You forgot Man On Wire.

Far better than Rachel Getting Married (or Jonathan Demme Gets Pretentious).

Well, Man On Wire was a doc and was and would be regelated to it's appropriate catergory.

Documentaries are like foreign films. They can be eligible for one category but still be eligible for the other.

Meanwhile when I first read this, I was hoping that it meant that they would finally do things that NEEDED to be done. Such as having Best Visual Effects and Best Animated Feature Film always feature five nominees rather than three and include that Best Stuntwork category that's been rumored for some time.

There is a problem with nominating documentaries. Outside of Michael Moore docs, NOBODY EVER SEES THEM. If including more films was about ratings, that would defeat the purpose.

What about March Of The Penguins? $75 million at the box office and an Academy Award winner. Also, it was the best movie to come out that summer.

I agree Boosh. The Reader getting nominated over The Wrestler and Gran Torino blows my mind. The Reader was complete trash.

I agree The Reader wasn't as good as The Wrestler, but did you really think it was that much worse than Slumdog "boring and predictable as shit" Millionaire?

I personally thought it was the best of the 5 nominees with Milk being a close second.

I thought Frost/Nixon was the best of the nominees IMO. Slumdog wasnt that great either but it was better than The Reader.

I did also enjoy Frost/Nixon thoroughly for the most part. Just didn't like Slumdog or Ben Button too much. Or at all really.

Slumdog was the best of the nominees and deserved the win.

Harvey Weinstein has come out and said that Public Enemies is the film to beat. Apparently he's serious but I think he's simply using this as a diversion so to keep his plans a secret until January.