Phroobar
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I could be wrong but didn't the Watchmen get nominated? Probably am wrong.
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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film
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Phroobar
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Doesn't it have more to do with the studios promotion of the movie and lots of politics?
Vegas Disney Fan
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Being a drama, preferably with social commentary, that very few people see seems to be the secret.
Comedies, action movies, popcorn flicks, superhero movies (aka fun movies) typically never get nominated, which probably explains why I’ve only seen 4 of the winners from the last 20 years.
Ghost93
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Chloe Zhao's directing was the best thing about Eternals. All of the problems with that movie had to do with the script and trying to cram in WAAAAY too many characters, mythology and plot lines within a 2.5 hour movie. Eternals either needed to be a four hour film, a two-part film or a Disney Plus miniseries in order to adequately tell the story it wanted to tell.
Prince-1
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You are wrong. Black Panther is the only superhero movie nominated for best picture.
Prince-1
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Those certainly do play a large part in it. Most big budget movies do not get nominated for best picture.
Disney Irish
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Joker also got nominated for Best Picture. And while I don't consider it a "superhero" movie, it is still in the category.
There was also a huge push to get SM:NWH nominated for Best Picture as well, but it didn't quite make the cut.
You might be surprised… I always make it a point to check which movies I have not seen of the ones nominated and watch any I have not seen before the Oscars ceremon…I don’t always agree…but I did last year…CODA was my favorite movie of the year and it won best picture…I think if more people saw it they would agree…it was a crowd pleaser
Prince-1
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Definitely not a superhero movie but I’m good with counting it based on the source material it came from.
Prince-1
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Coda was great.
Vegas Disney Fan
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When I was younger I loved dramas and movies that made me think, now I just want a movie to make me forget about all the ugliness in the world, I blame Whistleblower, a great movie that still haunts me.
So... Strange World thread... that this is...
Ghost93
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No, this is a thread about Academy Awards politics, Coda, Chloe Zhao and the box office performance of Bros. Take your weird Strange World obsession somewhere more appropriate!
In all seriousness, though, I maintain what I said earlier that we just need to wait and see before passing judgment on the film. Strange World could be an unexpected gem that simply had bad marketing. Many bad Disney movies have had great trailers and many great Disney movies have had terrible trailers.
TP2000
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BuddyThomas
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It happened exactly one time - Black Panther, unless you would like to include Birdman, which wasn’t technically a superhero movie, and as others have mentioned, Joker, also not a superhero movie.
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BuddyThomas
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They all are psychic and have crystal balls, or haven’t you heard ?
Phroobar
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Which is perfectly fine except those awards were in Production Design, Costume Design and Original Music. These are all pretty minor awards. I'm surprised Marvel doesn't win those more often. That is the kind of stuff Lucasfilm won all the time back in the day. Black Panther still didn't win Best Picture. That went to Green Book which was a far superior movie. So an African American woman won best Costume Design? I'm not sure why her race was a big deal there. What is more amazing is Return of the King and The Shape of Water won Best Picture and they are both fantasy movies that almost never win Best Picture.
BuddyThomas
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Mine was in response to you asking why Eternals was not up for best picture and then I made a sarcastic comment about how superhero movies are always up for best picture. I wasn't talking about technical categories.