M&M: 10 Best Pictures? How About 1?

I’m going to take a second from our Colombian adventure and make a movie-oriented note: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apparently found a new way of promoting itself - or, more exactly, the art of cinema that it tries to represent. It’s going to allow 10 Best Picture nominees to be named for its 2010 ceremonies. OK, I’m not sure about anyone else, but I can’t remember a year in which I thought that there were 10 films worth naming as Best Picture. Some years I’d have been hard pressed to name five. Ah, well, now maybe Steven Seagal will have a chance. Kidding, I’m kidding/ Dan Webster , Movies & More .

Question: Do you think the best movie of the year generally wins the Oscar for Best Picture? Or are there other factors in play — like political correctness?