In the past, no such rule existed and a single movie could gain as many nominations as there were for the category. Last year, Disney’s Enchanted had three titles in contention: “Happy Working Song,” “So Close” and “That’s How You Know.” In 2007, Dreamgirls had three songs nominated as well.

The rule change might not be all that bad, though. In both of the above examples, none of the songs nominated were able to pull off the win. Last year the Oscar went to “Falling Slowly” from Once while Dreamgirls lost out to “I Need to Wake Up” from An Inconvenient Truth.

The most logical conclusion that can be reached is that the more songs a movie has nominated, the more chances there are for the votes to be split between those songs. By limiting the number of songs that can be nominated from each movie, the Academy is really helping the movies have a better chance of actually winning an Oscar.

I think it’s a good rule change. What do you think?