Kevin Smith Outraged Over Spider-Man: No Way Home Best Picture Snub

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The 94th Academy Awards will air on March 27th on ABC, with the debate over the exclusion of Spider-Man: No Way Home from the Best Picture category dominating most media circuits. Disapproval has already been expressed from a few prominent faces on the Oscar snub, including indie director Kevin Smith, who wasn't pleased to see the year's most popular film left out of consideration for the ceremony's top prize.

Spider-Man: No Way Home has earned critical acclaim since its December release, generating $760.5 million at the domestic box office, officially unseating 2009's Avatar as the third-highest-grossing film ever domestically. The Marvel Studios and Sony project has accumulated $1.8 billion globally, making it the sixth-highest grossing film of all time. Spider-Man: No Way Home became the first billion-dollar film to cross the billion mark at the global box since 2019's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Despite its success domestically and internationally, the film earned one nomination at the upcoming Academy Awards in the Visual Effects category.

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Smith was not satisfied with the one nomination and felt the groundbreaking Spider-Man: No Way Home deserved more respect for what it accomplished. In his Fatman Beyond podcast, Smith expressed his displeasure, holding no punches back in his criticism of the Academy Awards' unpopular decision. «What the f—!» exclaimed Smith when he was made aware of the film's omission from the Best Picture category. «They got 10 slots, they can't give one to the biggest f—–g movie of, like, the last three years?» Smith explained that the exclusion is one of the reasons ratings have significantly