It's Okay That Spider-Man: No Way Home Didn't Get A Best Picture Nomination

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The nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced earlier this week, and as usual, it sent the internet into a frenzy of discussion about which movies should or should not have been nominated, and what makes a film worthy of nomination in the first place. The Best Picture nominations were the area where most of this contention happened, as usual. The main point of discussion was a lot of people's disdain for the Academy only nominating «prestige» films that weren't seen or enjoyed by a lot of the general public rather than recognizing movies that were box office hits.

In particular, a lot of Marvel fans were upset that Spider-Man: No Way Home wasn't nominated for Best Picture despite being one of the biggest movie events of the year. They were arguing that this was a «snub» and that the Academy is pretentious because it doesn't want to acknowledge superhero movies as «real cinema.» However, this is a reductive view to take, and though it would be nice for the Academy to branch out a bit with their nominations, a movie not receiving an awards nomination does not suddenly make it objectively bad.

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First of all, the Academy absolutely does have a history of being very limited in what they consider to be eligible for the Oscars, which has led to a lack of diversity in the nominees (as well as in the Academy itself as a whole). A lot of people in the industry will look down on the more popular box office releases and claim that they're not worthy of the same regard as other films because they aren't «art» in the same way. This is a problem, for sure, and it would be great to see the Academy broaden their horizons a little bit.

However, this does not