Oscar's New Rule

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has invoked a new rule regarding the Best Original Song category at the Academy Awards. Going forward, a motion picture will be limited to only being nominated for 2 songs in the category. The past couple of years, there have been 3 songs in the category all from one motion picture. In 2006, it was Dreamgirls that had three songs nominated and in 2007 it was Enchanted. Both years however, the oscar went to a song from neither of these movies (2006 was Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up" from An Inconvenient Truth even though "Listen" was the clear frontrunner and 2007 went to "Falling Slowly" from Once). So does this new rule keep the academy from splitting the vote and thus properly reward the song most deserving? That's what they're hoping for. But at the same time, it seems limiting to musicals and heavy soundtracked movies that churn out melodic masterpeices. This is America. If one movie has the five best songs of the year, I say let them all be nominated. When we limit what can be nominated, we possibly remove or squelch art. And that is by far worse than a split vote.