É assim que é. A melhor foto é limitada a 10 indicados e as outras categorias são limitadas às cinco, embora algumas das categorias ocasionalmente tem apenas três .
On June 24, 2009, AMPAS announced that the number of films to be nominated in the Best Picture award category would increase from five to ten, starting with the 82nd Academy Awards (2009). The expansion was a throwback to the Academy's early years in the 1930s and 1940s, when eight to twelve films were nominated each year. "Having 10 Best Picture nominees is going to allow Academy voters to recognize and include some of the fantastic movies that often show up in the other Oscar categories but have been squeezed out of the race for the top prize," AMPAS President Sid Ganis said in a press conference. "I can't wait to see what that list of 10 looks like when the nominees are announced in February."
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In all major categories, a variant of the single transferable vote is used, with each member casting a ballot with up to five nominees (ten for Best Picture) ranked preferentially.
Vale a pena notar que há um máximo de dez filmes. É muito raro eles terem dez. Eles fizeram isso desde a atualização de 2009 para as regras em 2009 e 2010 apenas. Desde então, eles geralmente têm nove anos com apenas oito.