Blog: Idolator

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week that the nomination field for Best Picture would be expanded to 10 nominees , I joked to some friends that the corresponding move of eliminating the Best Original Song category would be removed "to save time in the broadcast, and also because it's really hard to get people to agree on nominating a song not by Randy Newman." Turns out my gallowsish humor wasn't that far off, according to a report in Variety -new rules for the category will tweak its already-limiting mathematical formula in [...]