Oscars 2022: Marvel’s Shang-Chi And Spider-Man Are Both Nominated For The Best Visual Effects

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So many talks about pushing superhero movies for the most prestigious awards this year, and they will again just need to be satisfied with the nomination for the Best Visual Effects. On the other hand, this is the first time ever that Marvel has two candidates in one category.

We have already talked about how superhero movies are generally underrepresented when it comes to being nominated, let alone winning the awards in the movie industry. Of course, there have been some exceptions, like The Dark Knight, which is still considered as one of the best superhero movies (although Nolan played it more to be drama-thriller) of all time.

MCU movies never had much luck with the awards until 2018 when Black Panther was released. That movie was nominated for seven Oscars, and won three of them. To this day, Black Panther remained the only MCU movie that walked away with the Golden Statue. Yep, 27 movies released so far, only three Oscars, and all three were won by the same movie.

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Other MCU movies were mainly nominated for the Best Visual Effects, because that’s something that Marvel movies are known for. Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame — all of them were nominated for the Best Visual Effects. But what’s even more interesting, despite so many movies that were nominated in this category, no MCU movie ever won an Oscar for the Best Visual Effects.

This year, Marvel has another chance, and for the first time ever, with two candidates. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: No Way Home were both nominated for the Best Visual Effects. Except each other, these movies will also compete against Dune, Free Guy, and No Time To Die. So, MCU has a 40% chance of finally winning this award this year.

What do you think, which movie will win an Oscar for the Best Visual Effects this year.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.