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Summary
- Ridley Scott’s trend of Oscar nominations without wins continues with Napoleon, despite recognition for Visual Effects and Production Design.
- Movies like American Gangster and The Martian by Scott were also nominated but didn’t win Oscars, unlike his past success with Black Hawk Down.
- Gladiator 2 may finally break the streak for Scott, potentially bringing him some coveted Academy Awards for his directing.
Napoleon just continued a terrible 22-year Ridley Scott trend, but it might finally be broken by Gladiator 2. Ridley Scott is an immensley popular director, and while he has made some massively successful films, Napoleon has fallen into a negative trend that the director can’t escape.
The 2024 Oscars are finally happening, awarding and nominating some of the best films of 2023. The 2024 Oscar nominees consist of some of the most commercially and critically successful films of the year, with movies like Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things, and more receiving praise. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is one of the 2023 films that received some recognition at the awards show, but it didn’t fare as well as some of its contemporaries.
Napoleon Continues Ridley Scott’s 22-Year Oscars Loss Streak
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon was a 2023 film that led to all kinds of Oscars buzz, leading to it getting several nominations. Although it was nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design, Napoleon didn’t win anything, leaving Scott empty-handed.
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Sadly, several of Scott’s other movies have been nominated for Oscars but didn’t win any. Movies like American Gangster, The Martian, and House of Gucci were nominated. The last Scott movie that won an Academy Award was Black Hawk Down, which won Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing.
Gladiator 2 Can End Scott’s Oscars Losing Streak
Ridley Scott’s next film is Gladiator 2, and this is the movie that could bring back Ridley Scott’s Academy Awards success. 2000’s Gladiator was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, with it winning five Academy Awards, those being Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design.
Gladiator has a history of being massively successful at the Oscars, something that Gladiator 2 could recapture. Gladiator 2 will feature several key talents that have been nominated for Oscars, and the reputation of the franchise may help recapture Ridley Scott’s previous Oscars successes. Although Napoleon lost once again at the 2024 Academy Awards, Gladiator 2 could be the movie that has the power to bring Scott some more Oscars gold.
Napoleon
From director Ridley Scott and writer David Scarpa comes Napoleon, a dramatic historical-epic film that follows the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as he embarks on a lengthy French campaign of conquest. The film also focuses on his relationship with Josephine, his Empress and the love of his life, a relationship that was equal parts romantically intense and self-destructive.
- Release Date
- November 22, 2023
- Studio(s)
- Apple , Scott Free Productions
- Distributor(s)
- Apple TV+ , Columbia Pictures
- Writers
- David Scarpa
- Runtime
- 158 Minutes
This story originally appeared on Screenrant
