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The 2010 Golden Globes will feature five Best Animated Feature contenders, as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year's number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now reads: "Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If less than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year."
(The Golden Globes press release doesn't indicate the number of animated-feature submissions this year, but one assumes there were more than 12. Twenty animated films have been submitted for the 2010 Academy Awards.)
The Golden Globe nominations will be announced at 5 am (PT) on Tuesday, December 15.
Hosted by Ricky Gervais, the 2010 Golden Globes will be broadcast live coast to coast Sunday, January 17 on NBC (5 to 8 pm PT, 8 to 11 pm ET) from The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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