Producers Get More Oscar Slots

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will now allow more than three producers to be eligible for an Oscar movie credit. “The agreement to consider exceptions to the three-producer rule, though a small change, was welcomed by some of those who had been slighted by the old limitation, which at this year’s Oscar ceremony excluded two producers, Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, from awards consideration for the best-picture nominee ‘Little Miss Sunshine’.”