Despite its majorMarvel Cinematic Universesuccess in 2024, the Academy Awards just delivered some bad news forDeadpool & Wolverine. As the 2025 Oscars season is approaching, numerous 2024 films are getting their due in various categories. However, one of the burning questions every year when Oscar nominations are rolling out is whether or not the superhero genre is getting recognized in any capacity, particularly fromthe MCU timeline.
TheOscarsnominations were finally announced for the 97th Academy Awards, and whileDeadpool & Wolverinewas the only outing from Marvel Studios in 2024,the Phase 5 installment ended up not landing a single nomination. In the category of Visual Effects, which is the one thatDeadpool & Wolverinewere expected to land in, the following films were instead nominated:
What Deadpool & Wolverine’s Oscar White Out Means
When it comes to Marvel Studios, they tend to usually land a handful of nominations every year in the technical categories, especially for Visual Effects. However, withDeadpool & Wolverineofficially being left out of the Oscars for 2025,it marks the first time in a decade that Marvel Studios has not been nominated for a single category. The last time this happened for Marvel Studios was in 2015, during the MCU’s Phase 2 era.
While Marvel Studios technically didn’t get any Academy Award nominations in 2021, this was a result of the fact that they didn’t have any releases in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In many ways,it is surprising thatDeadpool & Wolverinedidn’t get a nomination for Visual Effects, especially given how strong the VFX work was for the 2024 installment. Throughout the film, all the way totheDeadpool & Wolverineending, the MCU had some of its best VFX in quite a while, following numerous films having been slammed for some of their rushed post-production work. This is especially true given the movie featured characters like Cassandra Nova, whose power set brought some of the MCU’s most disturbing but well-executed sequences of all time.
Our Take On Deadpool & Wolverine Getting No Oscar Nominations
While it’s sad to see all the work that was put intotheDeadpool & Wolverinecharactersand story not be recognized by the Academy Awards,it doesn’t take away any of the MCU film’s massive win in 2024 as both a critical and commercial success for Marvel Studios. In the end, with the amount of movies that get released on a yearly basis, it will always be extremely competitive at the awards. Nevertheless, the MCU audience will always be able to relive the great adventures inDeadpool & Wolverineand its many solid aspects, including its visual effects.
Deadpool & Wolverine
Cast
A follow-up to the highly successful Deadpool and Deadpool 2 films starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth. The third film will be the first in the franchise to be developed under the Marvel Studios banner following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
