We already have the list of nominations for the Oscar 2022. Thus, the Hollywood Film Academy has shared the films that compete in different categories for an event scheduled for March 27, 2022. And among the nominated films we find two superhero films, both from Marvel Studios, with Spider-Man: No Way Home and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, both competing for the award for the best digital effects. On the other hand, Dune by Denis Villeneuve, has received a total of ten nominations, including the award for best film.
Superheroes return to the Oscars
Thus, after the three Oscars awarded to Black Panther in 2018, Marvel Studios returns to the forefront of the Academy Awards with two of its most successful films of 2021, that is, Spider -Man: No Way Home and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, both competing for the award for the best digital effects. They will have to compete with Free Guy, No Time to Die, and Dune.
And speaking of Dune, the celebrated film by Denis Villeneuve has the honor of being the second film with the most nominations in this upcoming edition of the Oscars, only behind The power of dog and its twelve candidates. Thus, the film based on the work of Frank Herbert will compete in categories such as best film, best original music, best sound, best production design, best cinematography or best editing, among other categories, in addition to the aforementioned nomination for the best digital effects.
Finally, the actor Andrew Garfield, whom we saw return as Spider-Man alongside Tom Holland and Tobey Maguire in the latest film of the wall-crawler, is nominated for best actor for his role in Tick, tick… ¡Boom!