I both like and hate the multiple part episodes. I like them because they're a lot more informative than the single part episodes can be, but I hate them for a week (or in the case of the Hollywood History series, three weeks) because I'm left wanting more. Any possibility of doing some longer episodes, like if you had enough material for, say, an eight minute episode?
As for the ridiculously low requirements, that really is a detriment to the audience for the Oscars. I go out of my way to watch movies when I can (is difficult when you're a college student and busy all the time), but I've only seen three of the nominees for Best Picture (Descendants, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris -- note that two of them came out before the Oscar season really started) and my campus has two theaters that show little other than Oscar Bait and other similar specialty movies (Indie and experimental movies are some of their favorites, as well as special midnight showings like Rocky Horror and similar) -- I simply don't have the time to see most of these until well after they come out, usually after the Oscars have happened, and I think that a lot of people have the same problem that I do.
The real question is, how would you fix this problem? I'm at a loss for the moment -- I have no idea right now how I'd suggest you make the Oscars less "broken".