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Tom Sherak Re-Elected AMPAS President You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content August 4, 2010 4:27am SERVICES TO SHARE THIS PAGE. It was hardly a

cliffhanger, but Tom Sherak was reelected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He was voted in last night by the Academy Board of Governors along with Sid Ganis

(first vice president), James L. Brooks, (vice president) Phil Robinson (vice president), Hawk Koch (treasurer) and Annette Bening (secretary). Sherak’s first term was marked by the

Academy’s controversial decision to expand the Best Picture category to 10 films, for which Sherak was a proponent. While widening the field gave some extra attention to films like _District

9_, _The Blind Side_, _Inglourious Basterds_ and _Up In The Air_, the extra five films were not at all a factor in what really became a two-horse race between_ Avatar_ and Best Picture

winner _The Hurt Locker_. The big question for Sherak and the Academy in this coming Oscar season: In a year where there have been complaints about quality, will there be 10 Oscar-caliber

films to fill the category? Should the Best Picture category go back to normal and should the Academy instead reconsider a proposal to institute the new category of Best Ensemble, which

would give more than token attention to films outside the Best Picture category, with an actual award up for grabs honoring a group effort? While the Best Picture expanded category fell

flat, it might have been a fine battle between _Inglourious Basterds, Precious,_ _Up in the Air_ and _The Hurt Locker _for ensemble supremacy. WATCH ON DEADLINE 3 Comments JavaScript is

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