MCU fans were left disappointed after Tuesday’s announcement of 2022 Oscar nominations’ excluding Spider-Man: No Way Home for Best Picture or other major categories. Considering the Marvel film’s success at the box office worldwide and its massive acclaimed responses from critics and fans alike, one can only wonder why the movie was snubbed from a Best Picture Academy Award nomination and star Andrew Garfield got to address that question as well.
Garfield may have missed out on an Oscar nomination for Spider-Man: No Way Home but the actor has bagged a Best Actor nominee for his performance in tick, tick… Boom!. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the Spider-Man star had nothing but praises for his fellow star as well as producers from Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios.
“I’m not able to comment on that, particularly,” Garfield explained. “I really love that movie and I really love Amy [Pascal] and Jon Watts and Kevin [Feige] and, obviously Tom [Holland], and Zendaya and Jacob [Batalon] and Tobey [Maguire] and all the cast. That movie has been a kind of juggernaut of proportions that I don’t think any of us really expected. I can only speak for myself and I just feel grateful to be a part of something that is keeping cinemas alive right now, keeping cinemas full, and helping in that regard and making sure that the live experience or the communal experience of going to the movies remains intact. It’s very, very cool to see audiences still deeply longing for the thing that I know that we’re all deeply longing for. I think Spider-Man is obviously one of those movies right now and that’s so cool, and I’m so, so grateful to be a part of that.”
Spider-Man: No Way Home has already made history passing the domestic box office record of Avatar (not accounting for the film’s re-release) after just eight weeks of theatrical run. Furthermore, the movie’s 1 billion earnings at the global box office amid the pandemic era puts it above all Hollywood titles released in 2020 and 2021. Surely, the film’s Oscar campaign added more numbers to its earnings.
