'Mank' leads Oscar nominations in a year of record diversity

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9. TBH, the Academy Awards were ruined for me...

...when they went from five Best Picture nominees to up to ten each year.

I've never been under the illusion that the Academy really awarded the "best" in each category, given heavy industry politics, but at least, with five nominees, you could remember which ones got the nod, and possibly go out and see the ones you hadn't seen beforehand in the weeks between the nominations and the award ceremony, so you could have a rooting interest in one film or another. But, with this many nominees, it's practically impossible to remember which films even got the nod, let alone see them all. I used to be able to recite every Best Picture winner, and at least some of the nominees, for every year from 1960 to around 2003. Now, I can barely remember which film won overall for each year since then.