American comic and discuss present host Jimmy Kimmel has taken exception to Tom Holland-starrer Spider-Man: No Way Home being ignored by the Oscars within the not too long ago introduced nominations, He objected in opposition to the film not being nominated within the Best Picture class regardless of the class being expanded to 10 entries.
He mentioned on his present Jimmy Kimmel Live (quoted by Variety), “Forget the truth that the film made $750 million [in the U.S.] and continues to be going. This was an excellent film. It wasn’t within the high 10 greatest films of the 12 months? There have been three Spider-Men in it. You’re telling me ‘Don’t Look Up’ was higher than ‘Spider-Man?’ It most actually was not.”
He went on to distinguish between No Way Home and Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence-starrer satire-disaster movie Don’t Look Up, mentioning that Spidey film obtained a lot better critiques (93 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes in opposition to 56 per cent).
“Why do best picture nominees have to be serious? When did that become a prerequisite for getting nominated for an Academy Award? You wanna know what happened? Voters looked at the list and saw the names Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep and they checked the box and then they put their kids in the car and went to see the movie ‘Spider-Man.’ And they loved it! But they didn’t vote for it,” he mentioned.
No Way Home, which introduced again Jon Watts, did handle to attain a nomination within the Best Visual Effects class, however not one of the classes which are thought-about ‘main’.
Superhero films will not be thought-about Oscar-friendly and even when they’re well-reviewed and commercially profitable, they nearly at all times fail to make the identical splash on the Oscars.
Meanwhile, No Way Home is credited for reviving the pandemic-affected field workplace. It has swung into the sixth place of the highest highest grossing films in historical past. Apart from Holland, it additionally options the final two live-action Spidey actors, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, who reprise their variations of the superhero.
Supervillains from earlier Spidey movies, together with Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock and Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin, additionally crossed over to the MCU to face the three Spider-Men.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
