It'S not important whether or not the number goes up or remains at 5. In years with several superb movies, still too few will get the award they deserve, and in years with bad movies, still too many movies will get an award. It's a design flaw of the award system itself, but it makes the celebs happy and is a nice excuse to throw a party.
Giving a good movie a title or rating, makes more sense, imo. No good movies in a year: no ratings given. five good movies in a year: five ratings given. Films are no competing athletes. This whole film festivals stuff is idiotic.
BTW, in sports I would favour that if a separation in ranking between two athletes cannot be differentiated with the
unarmed eye (1st and s2nd sprinter just 2/100 seconds separated, for example), both should be awareded the same placement or medal. technologic crutches to increase human perception should be limited in precision to reflect that human limit. Stop watches not showing 1/100 anymore but - I don't know: 1/3 only if that is a gap the human eye can see if standing beside the finishing line.
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Eh, hm... sorry...