COMMENTARY: Endgame’s Cultural Dominance Makes It Deserving of an Oscar1 min read
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Independent filmmaker Alex Ross Perry writes:
I would like to see Avengers: Endgame win Best Picture at the 2020 Oscars. Not because I think there won’t be some Q4 movie with artistic merit and inherent filmmaking quality irrefutably higher. (Or, irrefutably lower but likely to win anyway.) I want this because The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King achieved this in 2004, and there has simply been no other accomplishment in the art (yes, it is an art) of blockbuster studio filmmaking since then that could justifiably warrant such an honor.
This is no doubt a notion that will cause much eye-rolling, just as the celebration of the unprecedented financial dominance for Endgame has done. But to dismiss this as a reality is, to me, no different than being a person who, still in the spring of 2019, says “superhero movies boo,” and stubbornly refuses to engage with the absolute fact that we live in a world where the Avengers teaming up one final time — on the same weekend as the Battle of Winterfell — is more culturally relevant, exciting and important than the World Series and Superbowl combined. If people haven’t accepted this by now, they are free to remain obstinate, I guess.
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