The Academy to honor more

It's been a hell of a long time since my last post, so long I have no idea where to begin. I'll probably start with the big news from two of the biggest award ceremonies. The Emmy's announced all of their 10 major awards will now have six nominees instead of five. The Academy also announced that the number of nominees for Best Picture will grow from five to ten.

The news for the Emmys is great. It will bring in some fresh faces to the some of the major races that seem to be the same old thing from year to year. It could spell out great things for genre shows such as True Blood, Battlestar Gallactica, and Supernatural. The only downfall would be if we had another year with winners like James Spader, Tony Shalhoub, and Jeremy Piven. Spader has been nominated four times in the past five years, winning three of them. Shalhoub has been nominated every year for the past six years, winning three of them. Let's hope this new change can bring some new homes for the statues.

The Oscars bring up more mixed feelings. They are trying to mix it up and get everyone to care again. This gives more mainstream movies a chance to be recognized. We could very well see movies like Up, Star Trek, Avatar, and Where the Wild Things Are a better chance to be nominated. It could also be a good thing for movies released earlier in the year like The Hurt Locker and Sin Nombre a chance too. It could shake up the winner as well. With so many more options to vote for, it could take away votes from a movie that would have won in a five-film race. We could see an upset this year that we havn't seen in a while, the closest being Crash over Brokeback Mountain. The problem is the list of nominees could feel a bit to much like a ten best film list of the year, like the National Board of Review or the Critics Choice. We will also know which films would have been nominated for the five-film race because The Best Director race will still only include 5 nominees. We're going to have to give this a chance, it could be disasterous or just what The Academy needs.