Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman
Patti Jenkins's Wonder Woman has already broken records, with its $103.1 million opening weekend marking the best North American debut for a female director to date, and its $781 million global box office takings making it the most profitable female-directed film ever.
Now, however, the critically acclaimed comic book adaptation, which stars Gal Gadot as the titular Amazonian warrior, is setting its sights on another first: namely, becoming the first superhero movie to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Bolstered by the film's overwhelmingly positive reviews, and perhaps by its undeniably weighty, Oscar-worthy subject matter (the inevitability of war vs the human instinct for compassion, for instance), the studio behind the movie, Warner Bros, is now considering funding a "formidable" Best Picture nomination campaign, as well as a Best Director campaign for Jenkins.
According to Variety, studio executives are hopeful that a recent shake-up of the Academy Awards membership, which will allow a wider, younger pool of people to vote, might raise the film's chances.
Early this year, there was some speculation that the tongue-in-cheek Deadpool would gain a Best Picture nomination, but this was not to be. More recently, some have also suggested that the gritty, remarkably downbeat X-Men movie Logan could be in with a shot for the 2018 awards ceremony. Read More Here
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