Dual voltage at the Oscar.

Ten instead of five - twice as many movies as before may be the future hope of the Oscar for best film making. Even animated films and works from abroad have a better chance. Trigger for the new regulations was a mega-blockbuster.

 

Los Angeles - As heard in the movie: It is a super hero, behind one of the biggest changes to the existing rules of Oscar's - Batman.

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Where, please go to the Oscar race? Scene from "The Dark Knight"

In future, instead of five, ten films equal opportunities on the main price. That did it last in 1943. At the time, won "Casablanca."

"After more than six decades, the Academy will return to its roots, when a larger field for the top prize of the year, struggled," announced the head of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis, on Wednesday before the press in Los Angeles. The result remained the same, however: At the end there will be only a "best film of the year" type.

According to Ganis allow the reform, the future of documentaries, foreign films or animated films should be taken into account: Ten nominations could be "some of the fantastic films to come, often in the other categories appeared" from the race for the top prize but rausgedrückt have been. "

So this year was one of the world's most successful films, 2008, the Batman movie "The Dark Knight" to the annoyance of many fans just nominated as the animated film "Wall-E". As best film was finally shot in India tragicomedy "Slumdog Millionaire."

Ganis admitted that the controversy surrounding "The Dark Knight" at the decision to double the nominations, a role played.

Also, the Oscar organizers on more television viewers in the hope Award. "We know that the people who Oscar Gala turn to their favorites to help - and ten nominations obviously draw more fans than five," said Tom O'Neill of the website theenvelope.com the Los Angeles Times.

The 82nd Academy Awards will be on 7 Awarded in March 2010.