CONFIRMED: The Academy Awards Will Recognize Twitter's Top Fan-Voted Film During Broadcast

CONFIRMED: The Academy Awards Will Recognize Twitter's Top Fan-Voted Film During Broadcast

We're not sure how this news will be received, but it's now been confirmed that the Academy Awards will recognize Twitter's top fan-voted movie during the Oscars broadcast. Is No Way Home a shoe-in?

By MarkCassidy - Feb 15, 2022 09:02 AM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home

We had heard reports that The Academy Awards would introduce a "most popular" movie category for the first time this year, and we now have confirmation that fans will get to vote on their favourite films that were released in 2021 — whether that particular movie was nominated for an Oscar or not.

Starting today, Twitter users can share the hashtag #OscarsFanFavorite to vote for the movie they believe deserves to come out on top, and the film that receives the most fan votes by March 3 will be recognized during the awards broadcast on March 27.

Many saw Spider-Man: No Way Home as the biggest "Best Picture" snub after the official nominations were announced last week, so there's a very good chance the Sony Pictures threequel will win the fan-vote. There are several other possibilities, of course, including Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Free Guy, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Zack Snyder's Justice League will be eligible, as it didn't get a theatrical release.

This news seems to have received a mixed reaction. Some feel a fan-vote is a great way to ensure a snubbed movie gets the recognition it deserves, while others see it as more of a condescending consolation prize.

What do you guys think? Be sure to drop us a comment down below.

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SmellofDuty
SmellofDuty - 2/15/2022, 9:29 AM
The academy is very easily going to get trolled.
Origame
Origame - 2/15/2022, 10:04 AM
@SmellofDuty - let's make it trending.

#spacejam2forbestpicture
Comicmoviejunki
Comicmoviejunki - 2/15/2022, 9:40 AM
Is this site crashing? Mine is screwy
whatevtrev
whatevtrev - 2/15/2022, 9:47 AM
@Marveladdict - Seems ok on my phone but not on my desktop 🤔
Super12
Super12 - 2/15/2022, 9:45 AM
Because nothing more accurately measures the heart of the people like Twitter.
The1st
The1st - 2/15/2022, 3:26 PM
@Super12 - I appreciate your sarcasm and add a puzzled look to match.

Shivermetimbers
Shivermetimbers - 2/16/2022, 10:45 AM
@Super12 - Glad you said it. I cant stand when media acts like twitter is an accurate representation of the country. I literally don't know anyone who even uses twitter.
Super12
Super12 - 2/16/2022, 11:21 AM
@Shivermetimbers - it's like 20% of the extreme on one side, 10% of the other, with the most active users on the far ends of both. Nothing remotely representative of the whole.
tylerzero
tylerzero - 2/15/2022, 9:46 AM
The Academy is letting commoners have a presence now?! Pshaw, I say.

LittleSween
LittleSween - 2/15/2022, 9:55 AM
Perhaps I'm getting cynical in my old age, but I've spent enough time on the internet to know this is an awful idea.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/15/2022, 9:55 AM
Site is experiencing problems... hopefully be sorted soon.
JustAChillFan
JustAChillFan - 2/15/2022, 10:04 AM
This is insulting honestly lmao.
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 2/15/2022, 10:34 AM
@JustAChillFan -

...as well as insultingly honest, poetically enough.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 2/15/2022, 10:04 AM
Here's how ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL can still win
Armageddon26
Armageddon26 - 2/15/2022, 10:10 AM
This is actual pandering, and a very poor attempt at it
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/15/2022, 10:23 AM
Lol the academy becomes even more of a joke.

Also, CBM is crashing.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 2/15/2022, 10:26 AM
Maybe they should just diversify the Academy so they can have more people who still work in the industry, more people of varying ethnicities, race & genders, and bring in younger people who are more in touch with what's going on in the marketplace?

Maybe make the changes people in the industry have been complaining about for decades before they let Twitter dictate an award?
cubrn
cubrn - 2/15/2022, 2:22 PM
@Itwasme - all of this
DrReedRichards
DrReedRichards - 2/15/2022, 10:34 AM
Why (or rather how) exactly did they think this was going to be any less pretentious or insulting than the quickly retconned fiasco of that previous "popular film" category?
Matador
Matador - 2/15/2022, 10:49 AM
The Oscars:


Splash
Splash - 2/15/2022, 10:57 AM
[frick] the Oscars. People should just stop expecting any better from this thing that's been wack and out of touch as hell for ages and ages and take their attention elsewhere. Elsewhere meaning, "not awards shows."
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 2/15/2022, 11:10 AM
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm making tons of fake accounts and voting for Super Mario Brothers.
PantherKing
PantherKing - 2/15/2022, 11:41 AM
They shouldn’t bother because that’s pathetic
X75
X75 - 2/15/2022, 12:07 PM
@SmellofDuty - The Oscars are dead and this is clearly a desperate attempt to get young people involved.
TheHumanSpider2
TheHumanSpider2 - 2/15/2022, 12:51 PM
They deserve to be trolled and have shit like Resident Evil winning.

This is totally stupid, if it was availabe, the Snyder Cut would win easily.
Winston19
Winston19 - 2/15/2022, 2:38 PM
This like a participation trophy
valmic
valmic - 2/15/2022, 3:00 PM
The Academy Awards are just people sucking their own Dick's
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