New Oscar BP rule advantegeous to animation?

The problem is that we don't get many animated movies every year. At most we get like 10 and most of them don't deserve to be nominated.
 
I think everybody here's overlooking one really important fact: It's a challenge for the Academy to find FIVE films a year worthy of Best Picture. Increasing it to ten can ONLY lower expectations of what qualifies as a "Best" Picture.

I mean, take last year. I would argue that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button didn't even deserve to be one of the five nominated. It was good, really good, but not great, and if there had been five more slots to fill, you'd have only gotten five more movies that weren't as good as Button. The same goes for Michael Clayton in '07. Again, good, but not great. If we're going to HAVE standards, let's keep them raised, not the other way around.

Oh, and this decision will have some bearing on animated features only if the oh-so-insulting Best Animated Feature category goes the way of the dodo and animated films are actually allowed to compete with live-action ones again. A great film is a great film; the medium is irrelevant.
 
I think with a 10 nominee for Best Picture rule in effect, I believe there is no excuse why an animated movie like Up can't be nominated.
 
The other side of the argument is that TDK and Wall-E would have been nominated. And that's all the Academy cares about at this point. They upset many by snubbing those two movies. So, this is an excuse to please as many people as possible.

My theory is that half of the nominees will be movies they want nominated while the other half is movies they think audiences want to see nominated.
 
I actually agree, since all the sign for this new rule point towards WALL*E and TDK being snubbed at the awards.

Sure this could give Up a chance, which is all I ask for really. I don't expect it to win, but the fact that if it gets the BP nom, I'll be happy.
 
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