The 7 Marvel films that deserved best picture nominations from the Oscars when they released

The Oscars are nearly upon us. It’s the biggest night of the year in Hollywood.

All of the stars gather together to honor some of the best work from that year in film — the highlight of which is usually the award for best picture. This is essentially the movie of the year in Hollywood. This year, it looks like Everything, Everywhere, All At Once will completely run the show, but we’ll see soon.

What’s a bit odd about the best picture award, and just the Academy Awards in general is that the blockbuster films that we see almost never get shine at these sorts of things. We’ve particularly seen that with Marvel properties over the years.

Despite absolute dominance from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Hollywood and some pretty great performances from other Marvel films done by Sony and FOX, a Marvel movie has never actually won — or been nominated for — a best picture award.

But there have been more than a fair share of Marvel films that should absolutely have been considered. Now, would these movies win? No idea. And we’re also not going to play the game of, “Movie X didn’t deserve the award” because that’s unfair and totally untrue.

But what we are going to do here is highlight some Marvel films that could’ve won it. Let’s dig in.