Oh, good heavens. Make up your mind, you Oscar honchos, you.

Remember how they upped the Best Picture nominee numbers from five to 10 a couple of years back?

Well, now they're going to — stop the presses! this will totally make the Oscars waaaaaaay better! — change it so there can be ... drum roll, please ... anywhere between 5 and 10 nominees.

Is that the sound of crickets I hear?

Yes, the grand announcement seems like a big ol' "So what?"

Certainly, there are things that should be changed about the Academy Awards — like making the ceremony actually entertaining. But shifting the number of best-picture nominations seems like busy-work in lieu of making more important alterations.

Here's the backstory: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that it had, based on its Board of Governors' recommendation, will allow anywhere between five and 10 best picture nominees. A movie would need to get at least 5 percent of the first-place votes to nab a spot.

According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, if this rule had been applied between 2001 and 2008, the nominees would have numbered five, six, seven, eight and nine during those years.

I understand the desire not to let unworthy films wear the desription "Oscar-nominated," but, as a film fan, I'd rather have more nominees to debate and discuss. And I'm a big proponent of comedies, which rarely made it into the best-picture list during all those years when there were only five nominees allowed.

I think some film-industry folks want to keep the Oscars as an almost elitist event, while average film fans like me tend to subscribe to the-more-the-merrier philosophy.

Which brings me to the things I suggest the Oscar muckety-mucks should be focusing on:

1. Increase from five to 10 the number of nominations in the major categories — leading and supporting performers and directors. There are phenomenal performances even in mediocre movies, and allowing more of them into the mix would make sense. And, on a mercenary note, if organizers want more of the public to tune into the ceremony, it wouldn't hurt to have more stars (or at least good actors) up for an award.

2. Banish the shorts to a different ceremony. It'd be like the Creative Arts Emmys, except with Documentary Short Subject, Short Feature (Animated), and Short (Live Action) categories.

3. Improve the written banter between presenters. Or hire good ab-libbers and let them improvise.

4. Three words: No James Franco. Easy shot, I know. I love Franco, but hosting an awards show is not one of his multi-talents.

What do you think of the change in the best-picture nomination process? And what would you change about the Oscars if you could?