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    A Superhero Movie Got A Screenplay Nomination: Glitch Or Game-Changer?

    Some 40 years after Superman: The Movie launched the superhero film genre, a superhero movie earned an Oscar nomination outside of the tech categories. (And it wasn't Wonder Woman.)
    by Glen Weldon Jan 25, 2018 6 minutes
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    In the not-so-wee, not-so-small hours of the morning Tuesday — 8:30ish a.m. Eastern Time — a superhero film earned itself an Oscar nomination.

    That wasn't so unusual, really: The superhero film genre has been with us 40 years now — dating from that momentous December 1978 day Superman: The Movie busted its very first blocks — and superhero movies have racked up lots of nominations, and a few wins, over that time.

    ... For visual effects.

    For sound editing and/or mixing. LOTS of those.

    For hair and makeup.

    Which is to say: the technical awards.

    (See the bottom of this post for a rundown of the superhero films that have received Oscar nods, over the years.)

    I don't mean to minimize those achievements. After all, it's only of developments in the tech fields — in visual effects especially — and all the dedicated work of those tech Oscar winners, that the superhero film genre can exist at all. They're integral to the suspension of disbelief

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