The end of the year is fast upon us and with it comes the Hollywood award season. Before we get to the stalwart iconic Golden Globes and Oscars, the contenders of which are already being hotly debated even with releases that are sure to make waves still to premiere. On the road to those nights however many other hallowed and respected organisations recognise and celebrate the best of the year, this week the Gotham Independent Film Awards honoured the like of Call Me By Your Name and Get Out, while the National Board of Review named Steven Spielberg's The Post Best Picture surprising very few.
What was interesting however is, in a year that conversation once again turns to the validity of honouring genre fare like superhero films at award shows - particularly with serious dramatic projects with comic book source material like LOGAN having seen their release in 2017 - is that the aforementioned National Board of Review as seen fit to award Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot the NBR Spotlight Award for their DCEU film WONDER WOMAN.
We all watched with surprise as
Wonder Woman rose to be the highest grossing US domestic film of the summer and connected so strongly and positively with the cultural zeitgeist -- no small feat especially with early rumours of a messy film, low box office projections and following the much derided
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in the maligned and critiqued DCEU.
Wonder Woman has certainly proven to be the film that could, and with a sequel that will see both Patty Jenkins returning behind the camera and Gal Gadot infront even with Justice League's mixed performance Wonder Woman it seems will neverthless persist.
Wonder Woman was released on Digital HD on August 29, 2017 and on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray and DVD on September 19, 2017