Oscars: 366 Films Eligible for Best Picture, Most in 50 Years Matt Petit - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images From March 5-10, Academy members will nominate between five and 10 films, with options ranging from 'Absent Now the Dead' to 'You Cannot Kill David Arquette.' Three hundred sixty-six feature films — meaning 40 minutes or longer — have been deemed eligible for the best picture Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday as it released its annual "reminder list" for members. This is the highest tally of eligible titles in 50 years — there were 374 titles eligible in 1970 — but only the 22nd-highest total in the history of the Oscars. The first Oscars ceremony considered films from 1927 and 1928, hence its record-setting 562 entries. The rest of the top 20 is filled with other years from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.