Oscar's Expanded Best Picture Field Makes Room For More Of The Big-Money Movies
Step aside, big guys: Sandra Bullock's acting nomination was no surprise, but The Blind Side probably owes its Best Picture nod to the category's expansion. (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros. Pictures)
by Linda Holmes
There weren't a lot of enormous surprises in this morning's Oscar nominations, in which the leaders are Avatar and The Hurt Locker, with nine each. (Get the full report here.) Nevertheless, the expanded field of 10 Best Picture nominees really did have at least some of the intended effect -- which was to include more well-received commercial successes alongside the smaller films that have been making up the field in recent years.
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