
So it comes with different levels of pressure. The 25-year-old continues, “When you’re making these films, you know that, good or bad, millions of people will see them, whereas when you’re making a small indie film, if it’s not very good no one will watch it. But the way I break down the character, the way the director etches out the arc of the story and characters - it’s all the same, just done on a different scale. “I’ve made Marvel movies and I’ve also made movies that have been in the conversation in the world of the Oscars, and the only difference, really, is one is much more expensive than the other. “You can ask Scorsese ‘Would you want to make a Marvel movie?’ But he doesn’t know what it’s like because he’s never made one,” asserts Tom Holland - who has played the title character in the three most recent Spider-Man films, having previously established himself in the 2012 Oscar-nominated film The Impossible - in reference to journalists’ and filmmakers’ often condescending attitude toward superhero films. (To date, only one comic book-inspired superhero movie has ever been nominated for best picture - not 2008’s The Dark Knight, not 2008’s Iron Man and not 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, but just 2018’s Black Panther.) But at a time when movie theaters and the Oscars telecast are hanging on by a thread, should that really matter? I would argue not, as did four key players behind the film - each of whom is an Academy member and has experience with the Oscar game - during conversations we had this week. With those sorts of stats, it looks like an obvious contender for a best picture Oscar nomination - if, that is, you can get past its genre.

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