Best Picture Nom's Bumped to 10; Produced By

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2009

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In a surprise move, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that next year there will be ten Best Picture Oscar nominees, instead of five. AMPAS President Sid Ganis explains why. Kind of. Plus, producers stand up and say, "I am somebody!" at their guild's new Produced By conference. We speak with motion picture and TV producer and guild president Marshall Herskovitz.

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0:00.0	From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:06.4	You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.
0:12.0	Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all right life.
0:17.8	He doesn't clean.
0:18.6	What's with him?
0:20.5	Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.
0:22.9	This week on the business, the Academy surprised everyone when it announced that there will be 10 nominees for Best Picture instead of five at the Oscars next year.
0:32.4	Academy President Sid Gannis joins us to explain why, kind of.
0:37.2	Plus, producers stand up and say,
0:39.2	I am somebody at their Guild's new, produced by conference.
0:43.1	We speak with Guild President Marshall Herskowitz.
0:45.9	But first, on the Hollywood news banter,
0:48.3	the studios play executive musical chairs.
0:50.9	On the Titanic.
0:52.2	It's the business from KCRW.
0:54.5	You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.
0:59.4	What's with him?
1:00.9	I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood. Hollywood.
1:04.0	I'm joined in the studio by the business producer Matt Holtzman. What's up, Matt?
1:07.6	Well, we already mentioned that the Motion Picture Academy stunned Hollywood by expanding the number of best picture nominees next year to 10.
1:13.3	We'll talk about that later in the show, so let's not talk about it now.
1:16.0	Except to say that it's extremely controversial.
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