I know Doctor Strange won for best visuals from the HFA's
https://www.comicbookmovie.com/doctor_strange/doctor-strange-has-won-a-hollywood-films-award-a145806
But Deadpool is up for Best Pic noms in 2 different award ceremonies.
not expecting a win, but a nomination in Best Pic is a HUGE step forward.
So, as we know, Deadpool wasn't nominated for Best Picture but that isn't a surprise to me as my previous posting explained. But I did just want to take a moment to state that it was a surprise the Golden Globes nominated it, however, the Globes are more flexible in their selections and like to include popular stuff in the Comedy/Musical category. Usually, that's the closest any of those types of movies get to an award. The Globes have nominated Melissa McCarthy's Spy and Amy Schumer's Trainwreck in that category and neither were ever going to be considered for a Best Picture nominee nor are they particularly that great but they gave 'em a nod to increase the appeal of the show and nominees there.
The PGA nod is more significant but again, the Producers Guild likes to nominate successes in production so with Deadpool being the highest R rated feature getting a nomination from the PGA was a sort of reward for the successful risk it took and it paying off so well.
As for the Oscars, I'm not even sure Dr. Strange will win that as I'm seeing more talk for The Jungle Book than it and after last year's Ex Machina win out of nowhere win, who knows how that category will go. On the ironical side, Suicide Squad has a better chance of winning an Oscar since it is nominated in Make-up with only 2 other competitors compared to Dr. Strange vs 4 other competitors. That said, I would be shocked if Suicide Squad won. Unfortunately, the Make-up category often allows for some stinkers to say they've been nominated for an Oscar. It's odd how some bad movies can have really elaborate make-up jobs and techniques. Jackass present Bad Grandpa or something like that was nominated in the Make-up category a year or two ago as well. My guess is Star Trek: Beyond wins the make-up category but I need to look up and see what A Man Called Ove is which is the other nominee. I honestly don't have a problem with ST:Beyond winning the award. On reflection, I think it was the best of the Summer Popcorn blockbusters I saw this year. Awards are strange and funny like that.
If Marvel wants to go for an award then they should try casting Anna Kendrick as Squirrel Girl and make it a musical as she tries to gain respect in the superhero community and conquer Hollywood while fighting racists and intolerant bigots shot in an antiquated movie style.
If they get TOO successful and popular they will just eliminate the "problem" by creating a new category, like they did with Best Animated Picture. Nothing will ever top Beauty & the Beast because of what they did to separate the "kiddie" material.
Granted, there were some benefits for separating those films, but I still think the motivation was originated through a negative line of thought.
Made the best animated picture category. I'm more conspiracy theory-ing it but it felt like they created that category because they didn't want their "grown up shows" getting challenged for best picture.
They robbed any animated picture from getting one of the most prestigious Academy Awards.
You sort of corrected yourself later and mentioned you were a bit wrong on your info but just to completely clarify the point, the Best Animated Feature award wasn't created until 2001 which is about 10 years after Beauty and the Beast was nominated. It wasn't done to keep animated movies from getting nominated but to find a way to honor them and give them some due since it was hard for them to get a Best Picture nominee. That doesn't mean an animated film couldn't be nominated for Best Picture and, indeed, Up and Toy Story 3 were later able to do just that. It's much the same with how the Oscars have a Foreign Language Oscar in order to give recognition to great films made outside the US. A foreign film can still be nominated for Best Picture and a couple were able to get a nomination like Z, Cries & Whispers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it's just really hard to do because of the make-up of the Academy so have the separate category allows a bit of spotlight to be shone on those films and to give them a bit of their due.
It's funny but when the Academy changed their Best Picture selection process after The Dark Knight snub to 10 total nominations that is when Up and Toy Story 3 were able to get Best Picture nominations. However, because some other weaker films were able to be included among the 10 nominated, it was viewed as potentially damaging to the Oscar's prestige so they changed the voting rules again and this has led to the past few years of less than 10 BP nominees and an Animated Film has yet to get a Best Picture nomination again. According to information released about the Academy, it's full of a lot of older people and many of them are dismissive of animated movies. There's a site that has published anonymous Oscar ballets from some members and one member abstained from voting on the Best Animated Feature and just let his kid do it since he doesn't watch kid stuff. With that kind of attitude, it's going to be very hard for any Animated Feature to get another BP nomination. If Inside Out couldn't do it last year, I think it's going to be a long time until the make-up of the Academy changes some more or different voting rules are brought in place before quality animated films get the credit they deserve. If that's the treatment Animated Movies get, well, then, don't expect comic book films to get treated much better. Aside from the fact they show real people acting in it, that's about the only advantage they have to some people in being better than animated movies. There's the fear of animation and motion capture characters replacing real actors on screen which also leads to a higher hurdle for animated movies and blockbusters to overcome.
That is why, although I still like following the Oscars, I don't consider them the ultimate guide to dictating the best of the best in film. The Oscars can definitely help in shedding some light on great movies to find and watch and sometimes they are bang on with their choice of Best Picture like Casablanca or Lawrence of Arabia. And sometimes, they aren't. If you really like a movie and it also wins Best Picture, it's nice to see a positive experience you had was shared with a majority of others and also sort of validated. If it doesn't win, that doesn't ruin the movie or make your enjoyment any less real. I just use the Oscars as a guide to trying some movies I may not have thought to look up or try and the winners (and losers) are knowledge to keep in Trivia Games and Game Shows.
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