The speculations about the inclusion of Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire's Spider-Men along with Tom Holland in the film are getting stronger and recently even seemed to be confirmed after a few leaked images suggested so. And though several actors give affecting performances - especially Garfield (already a best actor nominee for “Tick, Tick … Boom!”) and Marisa Tomei (one of the only Oscar winners for a comedic performance in “My Cousin Vinny”) - none of the actors in “No Way Home” mounted a serious campaign for a nomination.Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of Marvel's most-anticipated films as it opens up the MCU universe into its multiverse phase. But those characters are either in largely familiar costumes and sets from previous movies or nondescript ones that are then heavily damaged in battle.
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It does so masterfully, drawing on its audience’s marrow-deep affection for those characters in wildly entertaining fashion. It doesn’t just reference several movies within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the five previous “Spider-Man” movies starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, dating back nearly 20 years. “No Way Home” is perhaps the least standalone comic book movie ever made. And “Joker” was a standalone full-stop, drawing from the larger Batman comic book lore, but in a story that could’ve just as easily been set in 1970s Manhattan instead of Gotham City. Yes, “Black Panther” referenced events from “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” but sparingly so, in a way that was readily accessible to audiences who’d never even heard of those other movies. More critically, neither of those comic book adaptations presented narratives that required deep-dish foreknowledge of a larger cinematic universe. Both “Black Panther” and “Joker,” for example, earned nominations for costumes, production design, and score - “Black Panther” won Oscars all three of those categories - and “Joker” won Joaquin Phoenix his first Oscar for best actor.
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All of those movies, however, had a distinctive aesthetic approach more in line with the Academy’s sensibility of applauding standout artistic achievement. Granted, the Oscars haven’t been allergic to box office success, either, nominating recent high-grossing movies like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Get Out,” “Hidden Figures,” “The Martian” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” for best picture - not to mention that “Black Panther” and “Joker” were both billion-dollar grossing blockbusters. If anything, the expanded best picture nomination slots ended up going to the kind of art house movies (“Nightmare Alley,” “Drive My Car”) that have been Oscar darlings for most of this century.
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Meanwhile, the best picture nominees released by streamers - Apple’s “CODA,” and Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” and “The Power of the Dog” - have no recorded box office grosses whatsoever. Instead, “Dune” is the sole major box office hit to earn a best picture nomination this year, having grossed $107.6 million domestically and $399 million worldwide - despite its day-and-date release on HBO Max.
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Indeed, this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences permanently expanded the best picture category to 10 nominees in part to increase the chances that blockbusters like “No Way Home” would make the cut.