Well it's a relative thing. The Help and War Horse (and I would say Tree of Life, a statement bound to cause controversy) certainly don't deserve the nomination over those films, and now that there's no actual cap to the number of nominations, they're effectively saying that those films are nowhere near good enough. Obviously they can't make a massive list, but there's still less of an excuse for snubs than ever.
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