Marvel and Sony Think Spider-Man: No Way Home is Best Picture Material

To say that Spider-Man: No Way Home is a hit would maybe be understating issues. Tom Holland’s third solo outing because the webhead is a multiverse breaking hit and is presently anticipated to interrupt $1 billion on the field workplace by the tip of the vacation weekend. But that’s not sufficient for Marvel, whose films this yr have principally been fairly good field workplace successes. They need the gold, child, they need…an Oscar!

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige and Sony chairman Tom Rothman assume the film deserves a shot at getting a Best Picture nomination, which was solely carried out as soon as beforehand with Black Panther on the 2019 Oscars. (It misplaced to Green Book that yr, inspiring its star, Mahershala Ali, to ask Marvel if he could possibly be Blade.) Rothman has argued that No Way Home its field workplace success and being “superb filmmaking” can’t be ignored come awards season. “Quality commerciality is really hard to do…And this is what the Academy needs to stay connected to.” Meanwhile, Feige likened this film to Return of the King, saying this film served as “a celebration both of our Homecoming trilogy and and of the five other incarnations of Spider-Man that had happened before.”

Earlier within the month, Feige talked about how he believed the Academy had a bias in direction of cape movies, saying the studio is “always at a deficit because of the Marvel logo and because of a genre bias that certainly exists.” It’s a sentiment that Rothman and co-producer Amy Pascal share, with the latter stating that every one films matter, even those with costumed weirdoes punching one another in them. Moreover, she’s hoping that as a result of a number of members of the Academy board grew up with the sooner Spidey movies, they’re extra doubtless to present the movie its supposed due. “I think it would be wonderful for the Academy to recognize all kinds of movies. And I hope that since there’s a guaranteed 10 movies, and since there’s a whole new membership, maybe they will.”

To assist the method alongside, Sony and Marvel are planning on have an lively For Your Consideration marketing campaign, from including No Way Home to the Academy’s members-only streaming service, to focused screenings and interviews that these pandemic instances will permit. Previously, Marvel tried to get an FYC marketing campaign going for Avengers: Endgame, however the Academy very a lot mentioned “no” outdoors of nominating it for visible results, which it misplaced to 1917. Given a number of the pre-release buzz round Eternals concerned director Chloe Zhao blowing Feige’s thoughts with sensible places and pure lighting, it seems like they have been hoping for that one to be their Oscar film, however then the movie form of fizzled out. But with No Way Home being a field workplace smash, conserving film theaters round for the vacations, and simply plain delivering followers what they need, the 2 firms are actually placing all their eggs on this basket.

Whether you assume there’s a bias towards superhero films on the Oscars (there form of is, no less than for the higher tier awards), the 2 studios might have eyes greater than their stomachs on this entrance. While No Way Home is fairly good, it additionally isn’t doing something that hasn’t been carried out outdoors of its personal style inside the previous decade, and the truth that it exists pre-tethered to about ten different movies doesn’t do it any favors. The producers and Rothman can argue that No Way Home is about “personal sacrifice” and “the greater good,” however it’s primarily a film that exists to promote you one thing—both belongings you remembered debatably fondly again within the day, or one thing that’ll hit in one other couple of years and promote you one other one thing.

We’ll discover out if the Academy accepts No Way Home as worthy of being nominated for non-technical awards, a lot much less profitable any, within the coming months. In the meantime, inform us: do you assume the film is succesful or worthy of getting any Oscars, and which?

[through The Hollywood Reporter]

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