SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME - Sony Pictures Releases Academy Awards "For Your Consideration" Posters

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME - Sony Pictures Releases Academy Awards "For Your Consideration" Posters

Well, it looks like Sony Pictures/Marvel Studios are serious about this Spider-Man: No Way Home Oscar campaign, as two "for your consideration" posters have now found their way online...

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By MarkCassidy - Jan 03, 2022 05:01 PM EST
Filed Under: No Way Home

We recently learned that Spider-Man: No Way Home could be a contender for an Academy Awards nomination, and it looks like Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have begun their campaign.

A pair of "for your consideration" posters for the movie have been shared online, featuring shots from a couple of the movie's more emotional scenes and some of the high praise that was showered upon it by critics.

Some have scoffed at the notion of No Way Home as a serious awards contender, but a Best Picture nom is not outside the realm of possibility. The Spidey threequel was one of the most acclaimed films of 2021, and has also been widely credited with rejuvenating the box office by taking in over $1 billion worldwide during this "Pandemic Era." Whether those factors add up to an "Oscar worthy" film is obviously open for discussion.

Superhero movies - or sci-fi/fantasy films in general - don't tend to get much love at the Academy Awards in any of the major categories. There have been a few notable deviations from the norm over the years, of course, but the likes of The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King (which swept the Oscars in 2004) and Black Panther (which was nominated for Best Picture in 2019) are really just the exceptions that prove the rule.

This year's nominations are expected to be announced on February 8, 2022. Do you think Spider-Man: No Way Home should be among them?

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MrDandy
MrDandy - 1/3/2022, 5:41 PM
I’d like to see it but doubt it. Be nice to see the academy occasionally recognize the films that audience actually watch, like, and make money so as to fund their art house projects.
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/3/2022, 5:55 PM
@MrDandy - Does Joker, Logan, Black Panther, Spiderverse, the LOTR trilogy, and Spider-Man 2 wins not count as audience films?
MrDandy
MrDandy - 1/3/2022, 5:58 PM
@MonkeyDLuffy - I’m not saying it never happens. Also Spider-Man 2 was only nominated for the usual technical awards that most blockbusters are nominated for.
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/3/2022, 6:05 PM
@MrDandy - Ahh I see that’s true, but I think the rhetoric of the Academy not acknowledging popular films falls a bit flat, unless you specifically mean in the best picture and best director categories which I agree.

I do however see that the technical award speak volumes for blockbuster films in particular
incredibleTalk
incredibleTalk - 1/3/2022, 7:13 PM
@MrDandy - Academy please leave my CBM's alone because once one hits that higher plateau the director's will start to screw with the concept, storyline, and the artistic individuality to try an satisfy bougie upper class tightasses. When I go to see a movie it's not based on what someone else's thoughts of the movie are it's because that's the movie I want to waste my money on at that time. Keep your awards leave my heroes alone!!!
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 1/3/2022, 5:42 PM


You're lying if you say you didn't notice it.
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/3/2022, 5:44 PM
This was inevitable, but personally, I don't really feel like the Academy is the sort of validation these films should strive for.
dracula
dracula - 1/3/2022, 6:01 PM
@Itwasme - not like its impossible, Joker got recognized the hell out of at every award show
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/3/2022, 6:29 PM
@dracula - I agree, it is entirely possible. Personally, I think the films the Academy awards are very stereotypical, and that stereotype is just not the type of film CBM's are. It's why I don't think it's the validation it needs.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 1/3/2022, 5:45 PM
Cap1
Cap1 - 1/3/2022, 5:48 PM
Funny how people say this saved cinema, when in reality it only showed how cinema is on the verge of death. Films like Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Red Rocket etc., all being kicked out their times slots for this. NWH is a fantastic film, but it has most certainly not saved cinema
DipperPines
DipperPines - 1/3/2022, 5:50 PM
@Cap1 - It's a double edged sword. To be fair those films wouldn't have done without it. Was not a fan of licorice pizza but I did like Nightmare alley. Underrated movie.
Cap1
Cap1 - 1/3/2022, 5:52 PM
@DipperPines - They would've made a lot more had half their screens not been booted to make room for this. All this and other built-in IPs doing well at the box office while others like the aforementioned drift away to nothing tells me is cinema is screwed
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 1/3/2022, 5:54 PM
@Cap1
When the say "cinema" they actually just mean...theaters and, granted, it's true, they're not wrong but heh, no wonder why they still misunderstand what certain directors have been saying all this time.

Covid is just the cherry on top, Cinema has been dying way before 'rona.
tmp3
tmp3 - 1/3/2022, 5:55 PM
@Cap1 - I think Ben Affleck was right when he said non-IP movies for grown ups are dead theatrically. Nightmare Alley and Last Duel next level bombed theatrically, idk if Disney will let Fox release more movies like those in the theatrical space
Also saw Red Rocket, loved it
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 1/3/2022, 5:55 PM
@Cap1 - depends on what you define as cinema. For the actual physical place, it is saving it, but as the production of a movie as a piece of art, I'm not sure given the subjectivity of it. Therefore, I tend to lean toward the former when talking about saving cinema
Itwasme
Itwasme - 1/3/2022, 5:56 PM
@Cap1 - it's a nuanced topic. In the pandemic I think anything to help drive the film economy is great, but these aren't normal times. The thing is, there's more distribution channels than ever, smaller films that can't draw a strong enough crowd will have other options to get in front of their audience. You can't make an audience go to a film, so if they can't draw people in, they won't have a choice.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 1/3/2022, 5:57 PM
@tmp3 - yeah that does make sense to me, since I do see myself part of the problem. I rather go watch a movie for easy entertainment on the big screen, while waiting for to other on the home release. Might as also be because the people around me I go with only really care for the popcorn flicks
Cap1
Cap1 - 1/3/2022, 6:00 PM
@Doomsday8888 - I think some are using it with the art form intention too but yeah, I used to be of the mindset covid was causing all these bombs, but now with NWH raking it in, it's evident that people just aren't willing to go unless there's big bangs and whizzes and cgi and brain-massaging.
tmp3
tmp3 - 1/3/2022, 6:00 PM
@bkmeijer - I think prestige TV’s kind of complicated things too. Why go to the cinema when you’re getting content as good as Better Call Saul and Succession at home?
NightBoyWonder
NightBoyWonder - 1/3/2022, 6:01 PM
@Cap1 - I have to drive an hour out just to see one of 2 screenings for Licorice Pizza. The thing about it though, cinema has been heading in this direction for quite some time. As home video became such a norm it’s always been a back and forth of getting people in the seats.

The unfortunate reality is how blatant it’s become that there’s primarily only room for blockbusters to be financially successful nowadays.
Cap1
Cap1 - 1/3/2022, 6:02 PM
@tmp3 - He was sadly dead on. Disney set those up to fail imo. Releasing Nightmare Valley same weekend as NWH is providing it's casket, while the marketing for Last Duel was just abysmal. It appeared in a Guardian article about films you may have missed last year, which is insane to me. Reuniting Damon and Affleck, directed by Ridley Scott, starring one of the biggest movie-stars in the world right now in Driver. Just wild that slipped so so far under the radar. Glad you loved Red Rocket though lol it's great
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 1/3/2022, 6:03 PM
@tmp3 - there are indeed so many (limited) series that are getting better and better, sometimes even preventing me from getting around to movies as well. In relation to my other comment, it is a reason I attribute to not having watched Tick Tick Boom yet
Cap1
Cap1 - 1/3/2022, 6:03 PM
@bkmeijer - when people talk about cinema dying, they are talking about the art-form, not the physical theatres themselves, and they're right. It is dying
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 1/3/2022, 6:05 PM
@tmp3 - Because the cinema involves getting together with friends/family to go have a nice time out there rather than being inside the house all of the time, pre-pandemic or not.
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