Scattered Pictures: AMPAS Going Back to the Way We Were?

As you've no doubt heard by now, THR is reporting that a "significant faction" within the Academy (however many that ambiguous number may be) is pushing for the Best Picture category to be reduced back down to five nominees.
The board of governors will give the issue serious consideration during their annual meeting at the end of March. It's entirely possibly that before the end of the month, the 2016 Oscar race will be thrown for its first big loop.

For starters, I truly believe it behoves no one to get all worked up about this potential decision before it's even made. There are valid arguments to be made for either side of the fence on which the board of governors may fall, but there are also facile arguments that hold no water. My own opinion on the matter is a bit complicated, but it helps to go back six years ago to when this all began.

Was this the TSN Turning Point for AMPAS?

Sunday Top Ten - James Cameron action sequences

With a mere eight feature films gracing his thirty-year career (not including his forays into television and deep-sea documentary filmmaking), it can be a bit frustrating being a James Cameron fan. Who wants to wait three years at a time between films? But then again, it's Cameron's painstaking perfectionism that makes his movies, and especially his action sequences, so thrilling and unforgettable, and most definitely worth the wait. No one understands better than he that action should extend organically from the story, yet should also take on a life of its own; a mini-story within the story. For my money, these are the master storyteller's ten best: