While the “Endgame-2019-movie-posters/”>Avengers: Endgame” euphoria continues, don’t get your hopes up about seeing the movie wind up with major award nominations next January.
Like all Marvel entries, “Endgame” will be dogged by its comic book origins, as well as being the 22nd Marvel movie.Every year, the studios take their best genre successes and try to push them beyond the technical ghetto.
Oscar campaigners want to convince critics, guilds, and Oscar voters that their movie rises to the level of art.
But it’s rare for fantasy, horror, thriller, action, or comic-book movies to pass over to the Best Picture side.Sequels, with rare exceptions, don’t do well at the Oscars.
“You lose points for previous characters and plot points,” said one Oscar strategist, who thinks studio directors for hire on a franchise are at a disadvantage.
“The Academy always favors auteurs.”If Marvel had a shot at
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