Not long ago, Sony Pictures stated that they would send the movie “Spider-Man: No Way Home” to compete for the best film at the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.
The reason why Sony Pictures chose to send “Spider-Man: No Way Home” to compete for the Oscars is that the film’s reputation in North America and its box office performance are very good.
They believe that these results of this film can be comparable to the original “The Lord of the Rings 3”, so the film should at least be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture.
Because “Spider-Man: No Way Home” performed well at the box office and word of mouth in North America, Sony Pictures chose to send this film to compete for the Oscar for Best Picture. This is an expression of self-confidence.
However, compared with Sony Pictures, Disney Pictures seems to be more confident in its films.
Recently, Disney Pictures announced the list of Oscars that the movie “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” wants to compete for.
These include multiple heavyweight awards such as the Best Picture Award, the Best Director Award, and the Best Actor Award.
The actor who is going to compete for the Oscar for Best Actor is Canadian Chinese Simu Liu.
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” is the second film in the fourth stage of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” and the world’s first superhero movie with a Chinese as the protagonist.
The film was released in various markets around the world in early September 2019, and the overall performance was very good. Especially in North America, its reputation and box office are far ahead of other films.
Simu Liu, the first star in the film, has become the hottest star in Marvel movies.
However, although “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has a double harvest at the North American box office and word of mouth, actor Simu Liu is famous internationally for his role as Shang-Chi.
But this movie is not at the level of Oscar for Best Picture, and Simu Liu’s acting skills also failed to get nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor Award.
Maybe, this is just a way for Disney Pictures to entertain themselves.
It is indeed very difficult for Simu Liu to be shortlisted for the Best Actor Oscar, but it has become a fact that he has become the main actor in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”.
In the future, he will play “Shang-Chi”, which will be a frequent guest of Marvel movies.
It was reported not long ago that Simu Liu has participated in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”.
However, Simu Liu did not admit this. He said that he did not appear in “Doctor Strange 2” and also called on fans to stop spreading news about his participation in this film.
The phenomenon of denying that he appeared in a movie like Simu Liu is very common in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”, but the final fact is just like the original rumors.
So even if Simu Liu denied that he played in “Doctor Strange 2”, the audience still believed that there must be Shang-Chi played by Simu Liu in this movie.
There are three main reasons why the audience is sure that there will be Shang-Chi in “Doctor Strange 2”.
The first is that because of the existence of a multiverse in the film, everything can happen.
Secondly, in the previous “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, there was a cameo of “Wong” in Doctor Strange.
Then there is “Shang-Chi” as a new role in the “Marvel Cinematic Universe”. In order to maintain his high popularity, Marvel will also let him appear in the next movie as soon as possible.
“Doctor Strange 2” is now scheduled to be released in North America on May 6. This is the first movie released by the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” this year.
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