In expanding the best picture category — something it hasn’t done since awards for the 1943 films — the academy’s governors were hoping to spark new audience interest in a ceremony that recently has leaned toward independent-style fare like “No Country for Old Men,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Milk,” and “The Reader.
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Via the New York Times.
“Independent-style fare” reads like code for “movies that are awesome but would not appeal to the rest of America, who really want Hotel for Dogs 2.”
