Hall of Fame, as easy as 1,2,3,4,5,6...

It is no surprise that old fashions and old rules become the new trend after years of disappearance. Now that Oscar best pictures nominees and other nominations were announced a while back and Oscar ballots will be counted on March 2nd and the results are to be announced/aired on March 7th, it is just a matter for the judges to vote on the different categories and have them counted for the final verdict. Where you surprised to see ten movies nominated for best picture? Till 1943, ten or twelve movies were nominated and seeing the amount of work involved in picking the best movie, they curtailed the selection to five for years to come… hm… only till now when the selection is again stretched out to ten movies. The idea behind doing so is to get a variety of movies ranging from high/low budgets, animated movies, not-so-popular ones in the horizon for people to know what other movies are in existence other than the ones that you hear of being the blockbuster hit.


Variety is always good to experience has been the theme for this years Oscar selections for best picture. Different types of food, drinks, relationships and also a different variety of movies that were produced in a year. For this year – 2010 Oscars, the ten movies that were picked has variety in them; from low budget movie on Iraq war – ‘The Hurt Locker’ to animated comedy – ‘Up’, high budget blockbuster hit ‘Avatar’ and sci-fi hit ‘District 9’, get-to-learn movies like ‘Precious’, ‘An Education’ and ‘A Serious Man’, football drama ‘Blind Side’, recession tale ‘Up in the air’ and WW II saga ‘Inglourious Basterds’. Having seen most of these movies, do I qualify to speak about the Oscar selections? Certainly not! I don’t even know how some of these movies get selected for Oscar best pictures.


I certainly did not know about most of the movies, except ‘Avatar’ and ‘Up’, thanks to my son who wanted me to send him to watch it with his friends and ‘Invictus’ (not an Oscar nominee for best picture) because it is about soccer and ‘Inglourious Basterds’, seen many ads of it, I had not heard about the other movies. Having a spectrum of movies listed in the Oscar not only gives information of other movies but also increases the number of viewers to watch Oscar presentations on television. Advertisements can be cramped during the Oscars show on television to make money as the number of viewers would have increased watching the Oscars. Do we need ten movies in the selection? If not for anything, certainly people will start renting these movies to see what had been done to get on the Oscar list. In addition to hit movies, people will see the movies that are not box office hits or never heard of movies. We will just have to wait till March 7th to see the results and make a dash to your nearest Blockbuster to rent them out.