Scarlett Johansson Calls Out Oscars For Snubbing Avengers: Endgame: 'It Was An Impossible Film That Shouldn't Have Worked'

Actress Scarlett Johansson has 2 Academy Award nominations nether her belt, but she inactive can’t recognize wherefore Avengers: Endgame, which she starred successful arsenic Black Widow, didn’t locomotion distant with much than its 1 information for ocular effects.

“How did this movie not get nominated for an Oscar?” Johansson wondered astir the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe smash deed successful a caller interrogation with Vanity Fair. “It was an intolerable movie that should not person worked, that truly works arsenic a movie — and also, it’s 1 of the astir palmy films of each time.”

Avengers: Endgame is surely considered 1 of the champion of the MCU outputs successful caller years, but the Academy has seldom afforded apical honors — specified arsenic the acting and directing categories for illustration — to superhero (or adjacent genre) fare. In fact, the lone Marvel movie to day to snag a information is 2018’s Black Panther. That said, Johansson’s crook arsenic Natasha Romanoff was beauteous award-worthy, from her archetypal quality successful 2010’s Iron Man to her decease successful Endgame.

However, the histrion besides told Vanity Fair that she astir apt would ne'er instrumentality to that world. “It would beryllium precise hard for maine to recognize successful what capableness [returning] would marque consciousness for me, for the quality that I play,” she explained.

“I miss my buddies and truly would emotion to beryllium with them forever, but what works astir the quality is that her communicative is complete. I don’t privation to messiness with that. For fans, excessively — it’s important for them.”

After Black Widow’s decease successful Endgame, Johansson returned for 1 much rotation arsenic Romanoff. She starred successful the prequel movie Black Widow successful 2021, which she besides enforcement produced.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.