Oscar Watch: Why Academy Should Double Number Of Nominees

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Oscar Watch: Best Actor Race Most Crowded Ever; Why Academy Should Double Number Of Nominees

We are only just on the cusp of October and you can already put the “NO VACANCY” sign out on the Best Actor Oscar race. Sorry, no room. Don’t even think about jumping in. Every year of late, it seems the Actor race gets richer while the Actress contest actively searches for candidates. Remember how “sure things” Tom Hanks and Robert Redford didn’t even make the cut last year? Perhaps that is just a reflection of what juicy roles the industry is offering on either side of the gender divide.

Nevertheless, for 2014 it’s worse than ever and we have a serious glut of qualified Best academy-awards-actor Actor possibilities — just under 30 by my count, and even more seem to be trying to gain entry. This is the year the Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences really ought to amend the rules, just as they did for Best Picture a few years ago, and make it possible to nominate up to 10 actors, at least in the leading categories. This traffic jam is just too much. If you’re thinking about still trying to get into this thing FUGGEDABOUTIT, to quote a famous line from the Al Pacino film Donnie Brasco.

Makes me wonder if they did this, they'd have to do the same for the rest of the acting categories.