

Sony can be assured that a large number of voters likely caught it on the big screen like the rest of the world (the way it should be seen) or have watched at home in the past few days, so it has a fighting chance at one of those slots. That’s something that became very clear to moviegoers, who had an ecstatic emotional reaction when the two previous Spider-Man stars - Tobey Maguire, who played Peter Parker/Spidey in the first three films, and Andrew Garfield, who donned the suit in the next two - turned up onscreen to join Holland (plus a who’s who of past villains) for the ultimate finale.īut can it make it into Best Picture, especially competing with Dune and No Time To Die (the similarly emotional culmination for Daniel Craig’s quintet of films as 007) in terms of the high-budget-epic slots the Academy might consider now that there will be 10 guaranteed Best Picture nominations again? It only hit the Academy’s digital screening platform 10 days ago. Suddenly, Sony and Marvel execs were starting to think about an Oscar campaign and framing the movie as more of a “culmination” of the 20-year franchise than as just another sequel, and, like The Lord of the Rings, the three films starring Tom Holland and Zendaya were referred to as a trilogy, bringing the whole enterprise to a satisfying conclusion.

6 on the all-time global box office list and climbing. Then came instant critical acclaim - sitting at an impressive 93% Fresh from nearly 400 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes - and audience reaction well beyond the norm: The film stands at No. As the eighth entry in the webslinger franchise, box office success and fan enthusiasm obviously was expected, but until it was screened in early December before its mid-month opening, that was about it.
