Oscars to allow 10 nominees for best picture
June 24, 2009 | 11:03
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The next Oscars derby will be more heated – and crowded. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just announced that the best-picture race will now include 10 contenders instead of five.
From 1932 to 1943, that Oscars category usually included 10 nominated films, but was pared to five starting with the awards show that honored movies released in 1944. The most impressive top 10 back then was for 1939, when "Gone With the Wind" claimed the prize, beating out "Dark Victory," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," "Love Affair," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Ninotchka," "Of Mice and Men," "Stagecoach," "The Wizard of Oz" and "Wuthering Heights."
Read the full story at Gold Derby, The Times' entertainment awards season blog.
--Tom O'Neill
