How Zack Snyder Won Big at the Oscars Despite Not Being Nominated

Zack Snyder had a very successful night at the 2022 Academy Awards, but he wasn’t even present at the event or nominated for any awards.After all the drama surrounding his departure from Justice League in 2017, Snyder returned in force in 2021 with the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Army of the Dead, both of which won the Academy Awards’ fan-voted awards announced during the Oscars ceremony.

In an effort to increase audience engagement and improve ratings for the 2022 Oscars live broadcast, a number of changes were made to the normal show process, including some awards being announced prior to the rest of the live broadcast as well as the addition of two fan awards determined through online voting for “Fan Favorite Movie” and “Most Cheer Worthy Moment.” Unlike the other Academy Awards typically announced at the Oscars, which are voted on by the members of the Academy For Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Fan Favorite Movie and Most Cheer Worthy Moment awards had a website where fans could submit one vote daily as well as the ability to vote via Twitter hashtags for their favorite movie from 2021 and Most Cheer Worthy Moment from any moment in movie history.

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Considering the campaign to get Zack Snyder’ cut of Justice League released was largely orchestrated via massive Twitter campaigns with the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut hashtag, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that fans of Zack Snyder’s movies had no trouble organizing around a new Twitter hashtag contest, voting Zack Snyder’s Justice League‘s Flash entering the Speed Force scene to the top spot for the Most Cheer Worthy Moment and Army of the Dead to the top spot for Fan Favorite Movie. Zack Snyder’s Justice League beat out moments from Spider-Man: No Way HomeAvengers EndgameDreamgirls, and The Matrix, while Army of the Dead beat Cinderella, Minamata, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and tick, tick…BOOM!.

 

Considering the awards were oriented towards fan campaigns, it’s no coincidence there was also a plane with a #RestoreTheSnyderVerse banner flying over the Dolby theater where the Oscars were being held, procured thanks to a fundraiser, of which half the funds were spent on the plane and the other half were split between a charity to send medical supplies to Ukraine and the other half was donated to the Association For Suicide Prevention, for which previous Snyder Cut campaigns have raised over $750,000 dollars in honor of Snyder’s daughter.

While Snyder wasn’t nominated for any of the Academy-voted awards, the odd fan-centric voting process for these awards is actually a very fitting way for the Academy to recognize the historical achievement of the three-year campaign to get the Snyder Cut released. Whether or not the Restore the Snyderverse campaign for Snyder to return to complete his Justice League story with parts 2 and 3 remains to be seen considering the changing of the guard with the Warner Bros. Discovery merger and Snyder’s full schedule and multiple franchises at Netflix, but whatever the outcome, it’s clear these movies (both made and unmade) will likely continue to find their way into the spotlight for the foreseeable future.

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