10 nominees for The Best Picture Category for Oscars,2010

Including double the nominees for the Best Picture category for the Oscars next year….Will it attract more viewers for the Oscars next year?Will this culminate in a tough competition for the judges for selecting the best picture?Whats the final event gonna be like is hard to predict!

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis made the announcement on June 24th that the Oscars for 2010 to be held on March 7 will have 10 nominees for the Best Picture category. This decision was taken as the governors of the academy board felt that there were several other films which deserved to be in this category.The other qualified movies like 'Dark Knight', 'Iron-Man', 'Happy-Go-Lucky', 'The Wrestler' were left from this category due to the restriction of 5 nominees. Also,there was a debate with 'The Dark Knight', not being chosen in the Best Picture Category as it had sold $1 billion in tickets worldwide.

This brings us back to the days of 1943 when, for the 16th Academy Awards,there were 10 nominees for the best picture.The movie 'Casablanca' won the Oscars for the Best Picture that year.Those in Hollywood might feel that this is a brilliant opportunity for their movies to vie in this category.

On February 2nd, 2010 , movie buffs and those awaiting the Oscars will get to know the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards.

Katharine Houghton Hepburn

" Everyone thought I was bold and fearless, and even arrogant... but inwardly I was always quaking.. I've never cared about how afraid I may have been inside-I've always done what I thought I should."

- Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn is a well-known actress who has to her credit, won the maximum number of Best Actress Oscar awards.She had won the award 4 times and she was nominated 12 times for an Oscar.

The movies for which she won Oscars include the following:
-The Morning Glory in the year 1933
-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in the year 1967
-The Lion in Winter in the year 1968
-On Golden Pond in the year 1981

Born in 12 May 1907,she was one of the finest American actresses of her times and has also been successful in television and stage shows.Known to be a maverick,she had deep interest in sports for instance canoeing,,tennis,diving as well as riding her bike.

John "Jack" Joseph Nicholson

Known by most people as Jack Nicholson,he was a versatile personality in Hollywood.He is known to be an efficient director,producer and a well known face as an actor.He is one of the male actors who has won the maximum number of oscars.He has been nominated 12 times for an Oscar.He won 2 oscars for Best Actor and 1 for his role as a Best Supporting Actor.The movies which earned him the oscars include the following:

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest': Best Actor in the year 1975
'Terms of Endearment':Best Supporting Actor in the year 1983
'As Good as It Gets':Best Actor in the year 1997

Nicholson is also the first actor to have earned the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival in the year 2001.

The longest acceptance speech at the Oscars

A very interesting fact-The longest speech ever made while receiving the Oscar.

The longest speech was delivered by Greer Garson in 1942 when she won the Best Actress Award for her performance in the movie "Mrs Miniver".The speech lasted for 5 mins 30 seconds and it is recorded in the Guiness Book of Records.Here full name is Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson and she was an extremely popular actress during the time of Second World war.In the movie, Mrs. Miniver she portrayed a character of a strong British woman,as a wife and a mother.

The longest movie to win an Oscar

The Russian movie "War and Peace" (Voyna i mir in Russian) is the longest movie with a duration of 8 hours to win the Academy Awards.The movie which won the award in the year 1968 for the Best Foreign Language Film film is based on Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace.