YARDS OF GRAPEVINE | Movies, TV, Oscars & S'more
CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON
Best Picture has been a troubling category in the last few years.Β I remember being pissed off when 2006βs Babel got nominated.Β While itβs a good movie, it had no business being nominated over Panβs Labyrinth and Children of Men.Β After the controversy in 2008 when The Dark Knight DIDNβT get a Best Picture nod, the Academy expanded the field from five to ten nominees (besides The Dark Knight, the slot occupied by The Reader couldβve been occupied by Wall-E or The Wrestler).Β Then last year, the Academy changed the rule from ten nominees to up-to-ten nominees (for instance, there could be six, seven, eight, or even nine Best Picture nominees).Β I would also like to point out that, in a cruel twist of irony, The Dark Knight Rises was completely snubbed in all categories (including Best Picture) when the latest Oscar nominationsβ¦
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