The recent announcement of the 2023 Oscar nominations has caused reactions of all kinds. One of the most prominent issues is that among the candidates for the best film award are two blockbusters such as ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Avatar: The Sense of Water’. Some have criticized it – I myself believe that James Cameron’s film did not deserve it – but others have been happy about it, and Steven Spielberg It is one of them.
He was late for Nolan
The director of ‘Jaws’ has not hesitated to show his joy in Deadline because two films of these characteristics have been supported by the Hollywood Academy, but he has not avoided remembering that there was a time when something like this was much more difficult. In fact, has remembered the injustice What was it that ‘The Dark Knight’ was not nominated for best picture:
That encourages me a lot. He was late for the film that should have been nominated a few years ago, Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Dark Knight’. That movie would certainly have garnered a best picture nomination today, so the fact that these two blockbusters are solidly featured in the top 10 list is something we should all celebrate.
‘The Dark Knight’ did succeed 8 nominations to the Oscar in the 81st edition of these awards, taking home two, the best supporting actor and the best sound editing. However, it was left out in the category of best film, where the candidates were ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘The Reader (The reader)’, ‘The challenge: Frost against Nixon’, ‘My name is Harvey Milk ‘ and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, with the latter claiming to be the big winner.
Strangely, that was the last year in which there were only five nominees, because from 2009 the number of candidates can reach up to ten. Hence, in the following edition films such as ‘Avatar’ or ‘District 9’ managed to be nominated…
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