Tuesday was of course the day Oscar nominees were announced, and super hero fans noticed one huge omission from the list of honorees: “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The mega box office hit got precisely one nomination, for visual effects, this despite hopes it might get nominated for one of the big categories like Best Picture.
And Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t having it on Tuesday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel live,” so he kicked off his monologue with a fun rant using both math and Hollywood history to illustrate just why it doesn’t make a lot of sense that “Spider-Man” was pretty much snubbed.
“The Oscars, of course – are our chance to honor all the great movies we watched on television,” Kimmel said. “The big winner nominations-wise – was ‘The Power of the Dog.’ ‘The Power of the Dog’ got twelve nominations – one for every person who saw it.”
“The Best Picture nominees were ‘Power of the Dog,’ ‘ West Side Story,’ ‘Cold Night’s Running,’ ‘Midnight Nocturne,’ ‘Cable Car 29,’ ‘ Dune,’ ‘My Name Is Ezekiel,’ and ‘Gazebo 953.’ OK, half of those names I made up,” Kimmel joked. “But the question is, which half? We’ll never know.”
Then Kimmel started talking about who didn’t get nominated. “Lady Gaga was a surprise. No-mination. She did not et nominated. But the biggest snub today, in my opinion — and I’m actually even angry about this, I’m kind of embarrassed to say — is the unforgivable omission of ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home.’
“How did that not get one of the ten nominations for Best Picture? There are only eleven movies made this year,” Kimmel asked. “Forget the fact that the movie made $750 million and is still going– this was a great movie. It wasn’t in the top ten? Best movies of the year? There were three Spider-Men in it!”
“One of them was Andrew Garfield – who is a best Actor nominee! Benedict Cumberbatch played Dr. Strange. He’s another best actor nominee,” Kimmel continued. Then he got to a numerical breakdown of why snubbing Spidey just didn’t make sense.
“You’re telling me “Don’t Look Up” was better than Spider-Man? It most certainly was not,” Kimmel said, extremely correctly. “Even if you go by the critics’ reviews, on rotten tomatoes, ‘Don’t Look Up,’ among top critics got a 46. Spider-Man has a 90!”
“For God’s sake, ‘Jackass Forever’ has an 89! They probably missed the eligibility window,” Kimmel said.
“When did we decide that the best picture has to be “serious”? As far as I know – this was not the point of feature film when they started making them,” Kimmel added. “‘Ben Hur’? Chariots and leprosy. ‘Frankenstein’? A monster powered by lightning! ‘Fantasia’? Mickey Mouse on an acid trip. ‘The Wizard of Oz” – flying monkeys and a witch!”
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