pacinofan, the movies you listed most likely would have received more nominations if the supporting categories existed during that time (Zasu Pitts in Ruggles, Crawford/Garbo et al in Grand Hotel etc). Did any films get a sole best picture nomination from 1936 onwards?
I think a better idea would have just been to change the number of nominees in all categories to six.
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A handful did after the supporting nominations came in. I listed them way earlier in this thread.
But also in those same years many categories had more than 5 nominees, sometimes even more than 10; there were 15, not 10 writing nominees; and in the last few years there were color & b/w categories for cinematography and art direction - so in some ways it was more difficult then to go without any other nominations than it will be now.
I just looked up one random year - 1940.
In cinematography, there were 10 b/w & 5 color nominees.
Music, in three category had 31 - yes 31!!! - nominees.
Sound recording had 12 (although there are two sound categories now, usually some films have double nominations.)
So to get only 1 nomination some of those years really took some doing.
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