The Best Popular Film category would allow for those films — like last year’s Get Out and this year’s Black Panther — that are both commercially successful and critically adored to receive awards recognition from the Academy.
Those changes include the expansion of the Best Picture category to allow for up to 10 films in any given year.
The Academy recognized that implementing any new award nine months into the year creates challenges for films that have already been released.
The Motion Picture of Academy Arts and Sciences recently caused quite the internet stir when it announced the addition of a new category honoring “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film.”