‘No Time To Die’ Shut Out From Best Picture Category, But Takes James Bond’s Oscar Noms Count To 18 Including Billie Eilish Best Song Nod
deadline.comAs the Oscars wrestle with grabbing a larger millennial audience, the dissing of tentpoles in the Best Picture category continues this year.
In addition to AMPAS voters overlooking the sixth highest grossing movie ever at the global box office, Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home ($1.77 billion) for Best Picture, they also snubbed Daniel Craig’s swan song as James Bond in MGM/UAR/Eon’s No Time to Die in that slot as well.To date, no 007 movie has been nominated for Best Picture, this despite a push this year for No Time to Die and the franchise’s highest grossing movie of all-time, which also starred Craig, 2012’s Skyfall ($1.1 billion).No Time to Die was held for a theatrical release during the pandemic, repping one of the event titles to put global cinemas back in business after being shuttered for over a year.
No Time to Die grossed over $774M at the global box office.Still, the movie produced by Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson scored three Oscar noms in the categories of Sound, Visual Effects and for Billie Eilish and Finneas Baird O’Connell’s title theme song from the film.
Overall, this takes the 007 franchise’s Oscar nom count to 18.Previously, Bond films have won five Academy Awards, most recently in the original song slot for Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes’ tune “Writing’s on the Wall” from 2015’s Spectre and Adele and Paul Epworth’s “Skyfall” from the same 2012 movie.
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