The Oscars nominations for this year have officially been released a few hours ago. Even though female nominations in the director category are rare, this year two women are nominated and one of them is Chloé Zhao for Nomadland. The odds that I will watch this movie are slim, but I do care about Chloé Zhao because she directed Eternals for Marvel.
Eternals was set to hit theater on November 2020, but COVID made Marvel delay all of their movies. Eternals is now set to come out on February 2021. It's a little over a year of a delay. But in the meantime Chloé Zhao is building her reputation as an awards director. Which means that by the time Eternals will hit theaters, it might say directed by an Oscar winning director. Especially since Zhao is now the leading nominee after she won at the Golden Globes.
I don't think that Eternals will be an awards movie. But it will have this feather in its cap to boost. Eternals is already ground breaking with its cast, and for having a female director directing just an ordinary action movie, not a female-lead movie. So why not also be a superhero movie directed by an Oscar winner?
Marvel usually prefers new talent as oppose to old and familiar directors. Plus they never went for awards winning directors. Now they have a new director which happens to be an awarded director as well. It's an extra bonus that they didn't expect I guess, but I'm sure that they are really happy about.
Marvel took a director which no one ever heard of, took a risk, and now they have an Oscar nominated director. This is great news for everyone.
Now let's get a trailer for the movie during the Oscar maybe? What do you think?
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