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I suppose we should have seen this coming, and maybe it adds uniformity to the end-of-the-year awards race: The Producers Guild of America has doubled its list of the year's best movies to ten nominees, echoing the move made by AMPAS to turn the Oscars into a less competitive field of "best" pictures.

The problem with it specifically is that you make the award less exclusive, and if you're not expanding every category to ten possible winners, you're only diluting the biggest award in the industry. That seems antithetical to picking the top of the heap. But we know why the Oscars did it (ratings, revenue), and the PGA pretty much had no choice but to follow suit.

So far, the other guilds have kept their lists to five films, but that stands to reason since the Academy didn't expand the fields for Best Director, Screenplay, or the acting categories.

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