The Motion Picture Association of America announced today that for the first time since 1943 the Best Picture category will be expanded to 10 contenders.

“Having 10 best picture nominees is going allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize,” said Acad prexy Sid Ganis in announcing the shift. “I can’t wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February.”

I think this is great news. I’m sick of seeing five nominees that are only up there because of big budgets or big names. Let’s see if we can get some quality movies up there for once!

Check out the whole article over at Variety.

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