Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Print Bluesky WhatsApp Threads Email Only twice in Oscar history have there been more than 5 nominees for Best Picture. Once, back in the 1930s, ending with Casablanca being the last film to win in the early preferential ballot era, and in 2009, after The Dark Knight did not get a Best Picture nomination and the Academy expanded to ten nominees. Pause to reflect on the irony of a Christopher Nolan film coming in …