By now you've heard that the Producers Guild, one of the true Oscar precursors, will stick to 10 Best Picture Nominees thank you very much. I'm sure we'll be hearing more of this from all precursor voting bodies. Many of them had ten nominees / honorees before Oscar even went there, hewing close to the critical "top ten" system. Since most precursors have a weird desire to predict Oscar that is equal to or even sadly greater than their desire to name "best" we assume most of them will stick to ten.
This way all of them can be 100% accurate in predicting the golden boy -- just have more nominees than could ever make it to Oscar's shortlist and you'll always be 100% accurate! The Hollywood Reporter thinks this will make the Oscars look elitist as the PGA is bound to honor Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two (a franchise they've already nominated if you'll recall) and Oscar probably won't. They write:
And the Academy will find itself back where it was three years ago, fending off accusations of elitism.
They say "elitism" like it's a bad thing!
OUR HONEST QUESTION: Shouldn't you be elitist when you're naming "BEST"? Isn't that part of the deal?