enters October, which represents the start of the annual Oscar season. Movies that intend to compete for the Oscars have been released, and movies that have been released have begun to intensively promote themselves in various channels to promote their qualifications. For the most profitable Marvel movie universe in Hollywood today, they don’t want to be absent from the Oscars: the Avengers heroes who have won the global box office championship in film history, begin to challenge the next goal-hold a few more Oscars and return to God Shield headquarters. The
superhero movies seem to be not quite compatible with the tall Oscars, even the tall Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the past 11 years, there were 23 Marvel movies, and none of them had a domestic box office of less than 100 million U.S. dollars. , But such a movie that is so popular with audiences, the amount of glory gained in the Oscar Hall seems to be not proportional to the box office.
Of course, you might think that literary and artistic movies are Oscar's favorites. But on the other hand, in addition to acting awards or best film awards, Oscars also have many technical awards, which can be used by commercial entertainment films. Surprisingly, the Marvel Cinematic Universe also performed poorly in these areas. For example, the Marvel Films performed poorly in the Best Visual Effects Awards.
If you say that modern commercial blockbusters are all visual art piled up with computer animation, this is not too much to say. Especially Marvel movies that need to present surreal scenes such as Asgard Wonderland, Wakanda or Quantum Realm, the ratio of visual effects is much higher than that of many movies. Before 2018, there were 17 Marvel movies in the Marvel Universe, and 8 of them were shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Visual Effects Awards. Including three episodes of the "Iron Man" series, "Black Panther" (The Avengers), "Captain America: Winter Soldier", two "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies, and "Singularity "Doctor Strange" and so on.
17 to 8, which seems to be a high ratio of nearly half, but considering the construction of an entire virtual alien planet "" (Thor: Ragnarok), and the microcosm "Ant-Man" (Ant-Man) were not selected. The performance seems to be just unsatisfactory. The trouble is that these 8 Marvel movies were shortlisted, the entire army was annihilated, and they were lost to "Inception", "Life of Pi" and "Interstellar" (Interstellar). ) And other movies—Christopher Nolan's works in recent years have always broken through the visual imagination, and are the winning army of major visual effects awards.
But Nolan used to be a superhero movie director, and although he made 3 acclaimed Batman movies, these superhero movies did not get the VFX awards-don’t forget "The Dark Knight" (The Dark Knight) The tunnel pursuit battle seamlessly combined the real scene and model shooting. Unfortunately, it lost to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) in the Oscar battle. In fact, superhero movies won awards for visual effects, dating back to 2004's Spider-Man 2 (Spider-Man 2). In the 15 years since then, it seems that the superheroes who have fought all over the world have not yet delivered the most beautiful magical special effects of the year.
is the same with other technical awards, even more so. In the Best Sound Editing award for Marvel, only the 2008 "Iron Man" has been shortlisted. That's right, with the exception of this pioneering work in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in the next ten years, other Marvel movies will not even be shortlisted. At the Oscars ceremony at the time when "Iron Man" was shortlisted, the statuette finally awarded Nolan's "Inception", which blocked another "Iron Man" hope of winning gold. However, it is even more ironic that "Iron Man" and "The Dark Knight" are the only two films that have been shortlisted for the best sound editing of the Oscars, and other superhero movies have lost their names. By the way, there are two "Transformers"(Transformers) The film was shortlisted for the best sound editing and three shortlisted for the best sound mixing (Best Sound Mixing). This may be a result that Michael Bay can be proud of.
Many superheroes seem to be a little away from normal people, and Captain America’s blond hair is always neatly admired by perfectionists-even if he is confronting his good buddies Tony Stark. Marvel movies have a large number of dazzling character costumes and various special styles, so that these movies seem to be able to regain some face in the Oscars Best Markup and Hairstyling. Unfortunately, no, only the "Interplanetary Strike Team", which is almost full of strange aliens, has been nominated for Oscars. In this movie, the outlaw Xingjue ventures to save people in outer space without protective measures, which turns him into a popsicle—the crystallization special effect on Chris Pratt’s face. Most of it comes from special makeup. Although there are such wonderful things, the outlaws still lost to "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (The Grand Budapest Hotel), and that's it, no other Marvel movies were shortlisted.
This is really unfair. Are Marvel movies destined to be insulated from the highest palace in Hollywood? Of course not. The Marvel Cinematic Universe finally saw hope in 2018: "Black Panther" (Black Panther) is a topical masterpiece that has aroused global heated debate. It is the second largest Marvel movie in the US at the box office, just lost to The ultimate "Avengers: Endgame" (Avengers: Endgame) only. This of course brought it closer to the Oscars, and it did live up to expectations: 7 Oscars were shortlisted, including the best mix, the best sound editing, the best scene (Best Production Design), the best costume design, and the best The song, the best soundtrack, and even the most lofty honors of the best film. At the Oscar ceremony that night, "Black Panther" successfully won three awards including best scene, best costume design and best soundtrack. What's more, the best scene and best costume design. The award was won by an African American for the first time.
Obviously, if the 2018 "Black Panther" is a topical masterpiece, then the 2019 "Avengers 3" is a masterpiece of Genesis. Disney actively promotes "Avengers 3" on the newly opened Oscar promotion website. How many awards do you expect this group of Avengers members to win? The answer is a staggering 12 items.
is not just the best photography (Best Cinematography), best sound mixing, best sound editing, best visual effects, best grooming, best costume design, best scene design, best editing, best Good soundtrack and Best Adapted Screenplay. Disney expects "Avengers 3" to win the Best Director. Anthony Russo & Joe Russo has assembled more than 60 main actors ; The total number of staff in different countries exceeds 1,000 ─ ─ excluding outsourced resources; IMAX digital cameras are used for all shooting; the total length of the shots reaches an astonishing 890 hours. This ability to control super blockbusters is indeed worthy of recognition.
More importantly, I hope that "Avengers 3" will not only reach the untouched peak of all superhero movies, but also surpass all other movies of this year and win the Best Picture Oscar.
10 years ago, the superhero movie boasting that Haikou wanted to compete for the best film of the year might be regarded as a bad publicity technique. However, "Avengers 3" is indeed a complex work that has been rare in recent years. It is a bit reminiscent. Back then, "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was also the final chapter of the assembly of heroes. A trilogy finale movie, which was also nominated for Best Film Oscar in 2002. It was also very popular... But it was still lost to "A Beautiful Mind" (A Beautiful Mind). Perhaps this year's commercial film may really challenge the heroes againTop honors to be around?
On the other hand, it’s amazing that many people expected Marvel Studios to sell Downey (Robert Downey Jr.) or (Chris Evans) for individual acting awards, but it seems that Disney wants to focus on technology awards. With the Russell brothers, this may not be another road with a better chance. After all, there is no absolute protagonist in this movie. Although they have very moving moments in the movie, they may not have enough chances of winning to compete with other equally good movie heroes. The performance time alone is very large. The drop. But the Russell brothers' odds of winning are more obvious. After all, they have achieved many huge tasks that the director had thought impossible.
Everything is waiting for this Oscar shortlist to be announced. The biggest shame of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is this time. The 92nd Academy Awards will be announced on January 13, 2020, and the award ceremony will be held on February 9.
