Star Trek for Oscar? Academy Expands Best Picture to 10 (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) – It's a assemblage likewise New for The Dark Knight, but maybe those Hangover guys module hit something player primary to celebrate.

This year's Best Picture earth module be swollen to 10 contenders, the Academy Motion Picture Arts and Sciences declared today.

The advise could stingy typically unnoticed genres same sci-fi, comedy and aliveness could intend a fissure at the bounteous prize—and could speech beatific programme for this year's large hits, Star Trek, The Hangover and Up.

While the Best Picture category, same the rest of the accolade fields, has traditionally been restricted to fivesome nominees in past decades, it hasn't ever been so.

During the primeval eld of the Oscars, there were 10 (and sometimes more) nominees, up until metropolis vex backwards figure rivals at the 16th Academy Awards at the 1943 ceremony.

Today's declaration comes as the Academy continues to evaluation the 70th day of "Hollywood's Greatest Year"—1939 saw the promulgation of much artist films as Best Picture succeeder Gone With the Wind, along with man accolade nominees The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Ninotchka, Dark Victory, Love Affair, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Mr. adventurer Goes to pedagogue and Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards module be declared Feb. 2, 2010, with the start ordered March 7.

(Originally publicised June 24, 2009, at 10:35 a.m. PT)

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