Oscars 2014: Why 12 Years a Slave Will Win Best Picture

NOMINEES American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea for the Motion Picture Academy to expand the number of Best Picture nominees from five to as many as 10. Why should the top award be less selective than, say, Best Director? The reason, back in 2009, was that the previous year’s most popular movie, The Dark Knight, didn’t get a Best Picture nomination. The Academy knew that more...

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