The organizers of the Oscar announced Wednesday a plan to expand the list of Oscar given to the best movie, increasing the basis of candidates to the prize of the most important world cinema for ten movies.

The “Academy”, based in Beverly Hills every year gives the Oscar awards for the best films, actors, actresses, directors and other creators of films, a gala ceremony that is accompanied by tens of millions of people throughout the world.

In recent years, the Academy has been criticized because many of the best movie are dramas that have been made for adult audiences, which appear mainly in theaters of art and therefore do not usually attract the public from blockbusters releases of the studios which are focused on adolescents and youth.

For example, the nominees given for best film political drama “Frost / Nixon ,” only raised 27 million dollars of 2008, while the biggest box office movie of last year’s “Batman – The Dark Knigh t” raised 1 billion dollars worldwide, but it wasn’t indicated.

The result is that the movies analysts see a lack of connection between Oscar voters and the movie public. They fear that there will be a fall in the Oscar audience as result of lack of nominations of popular movies.

The number of indications for best director, actor, actress and other awards will continue in five.

The indications for the 82nd edition of the Oscar on the movies released in 2009 will be announced on February 2, 2010, and the Oscar ceremony will be in Los Angeles on March 7.

Via: NY Daily News.