Andrew Garfield is pretty chill about Spider-Man: No Way Home not getting an Oscar nomination
"I personally feel pretty satisfied with the audience response. I think that’s plenty," says the actor
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Andrew Garfield has taken a break from discussing how much effort he put into keeping his Spider-Man: No Way Home role a secret, and has now touched on another big topic of conversation surrounding the movie: the fact that it wasn’t nominated for an Oscar.
Garfield’s not as upset about it as some diehard Marvel fans—like Kevin Smith, who started the discourse in the first place on his podcast FatMan Beyond. Instead, Garfield is glad that the movie’s been so wildly successful.
When asked in a profile for The Telegraph how he feels about the fan campaign for the film’s nomination being unsuccessful, he says, “I mean, it’s the sixth biggest movie in the history of movies. Making a film that a gajillion people want to see together is a miracle. Making a film that an awarding body loves is also a miracle. Sometimes those miracles overlap, and sometimes they don’t.”
He adds, “But I personally feel pretty satisfied with the audience response. I think that’s plenty.”
Though No Way Home didn’t receive recognition on this year’s list of Oscar nominations, Garfield still received a nomination for a different film: tick, tick…BOOM! He’s up for Best Actor, marking the second time he’s been honored in the category. He was first nominated in 2017 for war drama Hacksaw Ridge (and yes, he probably should’ve been nominated for The Social Network, but oh well).
As for whether Marvel fans can count on seeing Garfield wear the spandex again, he’d previously said in a red carpet interview with Variety that he has no plans to do so. But, at this point, it wouldn’t be totally unexpected if Garfield taps into his Spidey senses again—and, if some sort of Marvel miracle happens, gets an Oscar nomination for the role.
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I think it’s Kevin Fiege who’s supposed to bothered by No Way Home’s lack of Oscar recognition, at least that’s what Film Twitter tells me.
I’m sure Feige would love an Oscar, but I think he’s content with the oodles and oodles of money he’s got. It’s Smith and the manchildren who are really upset about the lack of Oscar recognition.
nothing will ever be funnier to me than marvel acting like eternals was their big oscar play and, when the response ended up being muted, just tucked and rolled that sentiment into spider-man 9. that funniness is then compounded when you consider that a spider-man movie about multiverses already won an oscar a few years ago.
Spider-Man 9? Did i miss one in there?
Spider-Man 1, SM2, SM3, Amazing Spider-Man, ASM2, Spider-Man Homecoming, SM: Far From Home, Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man No Way Home.You probably didn’t count Spider-Verse
Spider-Verse it was! D’oh!
Exactly! I liked No Way Home, but we had a better version of the same movie only four years ago in Into The Spider-Verse, which managed to pack in a lot more emotion and a story that didn’t become a big mess.
no way home sits right in the middle of ‘i love this movie because it’s doing all the fun comic book stuff i like and i love spider-man so much’ and ‘i fucking hate this movie because it’s dumb as shit and looks like garbage’
I’m torn as well. The movie’s the ultimate example of Marvel bloat, where every movie is overly long, pursing too many storylines half-assedly, and clogged with references and stray characters from other movies. At the same time, I’m not made of stone. I get a thrill from seeing Maguire, Garfield, and classic Spider-Man villains, and No Way Home gets real fun from those characters interacting.
I’m sure they’re using dollar bills to wipe their tears.
Sounds like he’s pretty satisfied by his millions of dollars, opportunity to relive his super-hero heyday, and freedom to pick from whatever future projects spark his interest and passion. Honestly just seems like a talented dude with his head screwed on straight. Similar to how we all like to think we’d turn out if we ever got caught up in fame’s coattails. Maybe that’s the newsworthy thing here, that fame hasn’t transformed him into a total garbage person?
Garfield seems perfectly happy to have appeared in No Way Home, but I doubt endless repeat appearances in the role are very appealing to him. His career appears to be on a big upswing, and I’m not sure why he’d be very interested in doubling down on being the Spider-Man people liked OK, but not as much as the other Spider-Men.
Am I the only person who thought that No Way Home was over-rated? It seemed more interested in nostalgic callbacks than in telling an engaging and original story. The ‘multiverse’ angle was done infinitely better in Spiderverse. I mean the premise is that Peter is going to ‘fix’ these bad guys so they don’t have to die when they return right? (not entirely sure how space and time work in this ‘multiverse’ it seems awfully convenient that they only pulled from 2 universes and somehow pulled from the past?) Um, they chose to be villains regardless of having superpowers right? Isn’t that where the whole “Great responsibility” schtick comes from? How does removing their powers change their criminal, sometimes murderous intentions?
It also… just wasn’t that good. Not even Oscar-bait “good,” which is not really that good to begin with. Why is this even a conversation?
Because comic book fans really need that validation.
Because a lot of people disagree with your assessment on the quality of the film. I don’t think the film should be up for an Oscar. But I loved it. I’ll put it in the top 3 MCU films, with Winter Soldier and Infinity War. But I don’t feel my opinion should dictate how others feel about the movie, either.
Because comic book fans have their feelings hurt win it only makes billions and we don’t have to tell them it’s the best movie of the year.
Good things about SM:NWH; Willem Dafoe, and Andrew GarfieldBad things about SM:NWH; everything else, as in an actively terrible movie, SM3 levels of bad. Someone forgot to tell everyone involved with the movie that nostalgia does not make a movie, and they should have done more than rely only on it.
I finally watched this last weekend and wound up a bit disappointed. Garfield certainly stole the show, but I thought Zendaya was a highlight too. I certainly wouldn’t describe it as “an actively terrible movie” but it did get a bit boring watching CGI villians punch Spiderman over and over again for two hours. The emotional bits were misses for me and I felt like some of the characters (Dr Strange, Aunt May, Happy to some extent) didn’t really act like their characters did in previous movies.
Especially considering Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out in 2014. No Way Home tried to feed us memberberries that were only 7 years old. I mean, think about that.
The disrespect to Tobey…
It was an interesting one. Moment-to-moment it felt kinda mediocre, but as I digested it afterwards it really grew on me. Like, I wouldn’t call it awards-calibre, but it did some cool stuff – particularly in conversation with older superhero films.
So Belfast and King Richard are objectively better films? No freakin’ way.
No Way Home does not deserve an Oscar. Why the fuck would it want to sully itself with that fetid old has-been?
I mean, Spider-Man NWH is the wrong Andrew Garfield to get Oscar related media talk anyway. Tick, Tick..Boom deserves all that attention.
Wow. Who’da thought a hot take on a pop culture site would be that you thought the latest Spider-Man movie was one of the best.
Andrew Garfield is the thematic counterpoint to Robert Pattinson. No, I will not elaborate.
“Hey, Peter… it’s me, Flint Marko! Remember?”Listen… I really liked the movie… but it has two major characters that were very obviously CGI’d in after the fact. Two major characters who, for some reason, had the dumbest, clunkiest dialogue I have heard in quite some time, and who had their CGI pretty clearly rushed. And people think it deserves an Academy Award?There’s nothing wrong with liking or loving deeply flawed movies. But liking or loving a deeply flawed movie does not erase its flaws.
I never heard of this movie until like 3 minutes ago.