Report: Oscars Twitter Award Is Already Going as Well As You’d Expect

Never underestimate the scope of fandom. That’s a lesson the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is at present studying, if we’re to imagine a report from Deadline final week. The commerce mentioned that whereas most assumed a well-liked comedian e-book film like Spider-Man: No Way Home or Zack Snyder’s Justice League, each of which have rabid on-line followings, would simply take the crown within the newly introduced Oscars Fan Favorite class (as in all probability supposed), the movie main on the finish of final week was really Amazon’s Cinderella.

Yes. Cinderella. Starring pop star Camila Cabello, Billy Porter, Idina Menzel, Pierce Brosnan, and others, it’s a movie which Sony, the studio behind No Way Home, offered to Amazon Studios again in May of final yr. According to the report, followers of Cabello “were simply flooding the Academy’s Fan Fave site” final week giving it extra momentum, and votes, than some other movie. Oh, and it will get worse. Johnny Depp’s followers did the identical factor. Yes, Deadline additionally reviews that followers of the troubled actor have additionally been voting for a movie referred to as Minamata which bought a small Oscar qualifying launch final yr and was subsequently ignored by the Academy. “Let’s do it for Johnny,” individuals are supposedly tweeting.

To be truthful right here, Deadline’s report got here out on Friday, February 18, earlier than the lengthy weekend, and it’s not clear the place, particularly, the positioning bought its information. So this might simply be a expertly positioned piece of public relations to encourage followers of Spider-Man and Superman to proceed voting their hearts out. But if sufficient followers of Camila Cabello do, in truth, outvote superhero followers I believe that’s nice—it’s the right reminder that if you happen to give you a silly concept odds are it won’t often work out in the way in which you’d hope.

Voting for the Oscar Fan Favorite continues by means of the start of March and you may vote, and skim extra, on the official site.

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