Netflix and Marvel’s first Best Picture Nomination for the Oscars 2019
Netflix and Marvel scored their first Best Picture Nominations for the Oscars 2019.
The streaming giant’s Roma is a Spanish-language film directed by Alfonso Cuaron.
According to Inquirer’s report, it is “his deep personal exhumation of his Mexico City childhood”.
Cuaron was also nominated for direction, cinematography, and original screenplay. This is aside from the best picture.
“Cinema needs the opportunity to be diverse. What mainstream cinema and the theatrical experience has lacked in general is diversity. And I’m talking about diversity in terms of stories and characters and ways of doing films,” Cuaron said.
However, some of the academy members resist to give Netflix’s movies any nomination for Oscars 2019.
Prominent director Steven Speilberg once said that Netflix’s films should be given an Emmy and not Oscar for they are more like TV movies.
Meanwhile, Marvel’s Black Panther is the first superhero film nominated in the Best Picture category.
“To break down a wall like that, to be your ancestors’ wildest dreams, to show other young women of color and boys and girls that you can do whatever you want no matter what struggles you have in your life — all of that. That’s what it means to me,” Black Panther’s production designer Hannah Beachler.
She and fellow production designer Jay Hart’s were nominated for Best Production Design category.
The Marvel film’s lush and big-budget craft resulted to seven Oscars 2019 nominations, based on the report.
The 91st Academy Awards night is set to happen on February 24, 2019, Sunday, 5 pm GMT-8.
For the complete list of nominees in major categories click here.
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