As Lou writes below, the Academy of whatever-whatever-whatever has owned up to blundering when it widened the Best Picture field to 10 movies a couple of years ago, not realizing what was obvious to everyone: There really aren’t 10 Best Picture caliber films each year. Now the Academy is saying the number of shortlistees will be flexible henceforth, and could be anwhere from 5 to 10. Great! Now all we have to do is retroactively go back and strike out the Best Picture nominations for the embarrassingly bad we-get-points-for-being-all-allegorical “District 9,” the Lifetime-meets-ESPN TV movie “The Blind Side,” the I’m-so-messing-with-your-mind thriller “Inception,” the Chowderhead porn of “The Fighter,” the hillbilly porn “Winter’s Bone,” the sentimentalist TV-tossing screamathon “Precious” and “Avatar” — just for containing the line “I didn’t sign up for this s**t” and giving it to a character cut-and-pasted from “Aliens.” And of course the mediocre “The Hurt Locker” shouldn’t have been nominated for anything except maybe the Betcha Couldn’t Guess This Was Directed by a Lady award.