Oscars Considering Going Back to 5 Best Picture Nominees — collider.com

A major change could take hold at next year’s Academy Awards ceremony. While the Oscars expanded its Best Picture category from 5 nominees to a 10 in 2009—and then to anywhere from 5 to 10 in the following years—THR reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now seriously considering a return to the former limit of 5 nominees. The initial category change came about when The Dark Knight was surprisingly omitted from 2008’s nominees, with the Academy thinking that expanding the field to 10 films would widen the variety of contenders and hopefully bring in more viewers to the telecast. After the incredibly boring lineup of 2008 (The Reader, Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and the winner Slumdog Millionaire), it was tough to blame them.

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