Marvel Studios has received several Oscar nominations for next year.
In general, the Oscars and superhero movies do not get along. Audiences have long suspected that the Academy fosters a bias against popular genres, which rarely results in anything more than token nominations that go nowhere.
The MCU has won before, with Black Panther winning Oscars for Best Costume Design, Production Design, and Original Score in 2018.
As the year 2022 approaches, Disney and Marvel have begun to campaign for Oscar nominations for films such as Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Can Marvel Studios, however, win more Oscars at next year’s ceremony?
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Pre-Nominations for Marvel Studios
The Academy Awards have pre-nominated two Marvel Studios films (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness) for the Oscars shortlist in various categories.
Makeup and Hairstyling
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Amsterdam
- Babylon
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Blonde
- Crimes of the Future
- Elvis
- Emancipation
- The Whale
Visual Effects
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
- Jurassic World Dominion
- Nope
- Thirteen Lives
- Top Gun: Maverick
Sound
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Moonage Daydream
- Top Gun: Maverick
Music (Original Song)
- “Time” from Amsterdam
- “Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
- “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- “This is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
- “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- “Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
- “Naatu Naatu” from RRR
- “My Mind & Me” by Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me
- “Good Afternoon” from Spirited
- “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman
- “Stand Up” from Till
- “Holy My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
- “Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
- “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
- “New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
Music (Original Score)
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Devotion
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Fablemans
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnocchio
- Nope
- She Said
- The Woman King
- Women Talking
Probabilities for Marvel Studios
Simply put, there is a good chance that Wakanda Forever will take home a trophy in at least one category. The sequel is likely to win at least one Oscar given the track record of its predecessor at the ceremony as well as the unusual and heartbreaking situation the movie is in.
In the Best Costume and Best Production Design categories, where Black Panther 2 ought to have been nominated and won, these pre-nominations omitted it.
However, the MCU or any other film has almost no chance of surpassing Avatar: The Way of Water in terms of best visual effects.
Both Multiverse of Madness and Thor: Love and Thunder are unlikely to win any awards, especially given the mixed, and occasionally downright unfavorable, reviews they have received.
These are not the final nominations, so not all of the projects listed under each category will be competing for that award in March.
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