Avengers: Endgame Director Says Robert Downey Jr. Deserves An Oscar

Though the next Academy Awards ceremony is still over nine months away, you may have noticed that some Marvel fans have started campaigning early, taking to social media to push for Robert Downey Jr. to receive an Oscar nod. And as it turns out, Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo is very much on the same page.

In an interview with the Washington Post, the filmmaker went as far as to argue that the Iron Man actor deserves an Academy Award perhaps more than anyone else in recent decades.

“His cumulative body of work from these movies is staggering,” Russo said. “If you look at the work over just even the last four [Marvel] films he’s done, it’s phenomenal. . . . He deserves an Oscar perhaps more than anyone in the last 40 years because of the way that he has motivated popular culture.”

Russo went on to describe some of Downey’s onscreen moments as “heartbreaking,” before adding that he “has the world in tears right now.”

So, could Downey finally land an Oscar nod for his work in the MCU? Honestly, it feels like a long shot. The Academy has a long history of paying little mind to superhero cinema beyond the technical categories, and even Black Panther – which received seven nominations, including Best Picture – saw none of its cast members recognized at this year’s ceremony.

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Still, an Oscar nomination for a performance in a superhero movie wouldn’t be completely unprecedented. After all, Heath Ledger posthumously won a Best Supporting Actor award for The Dark Knight. And it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that Downey got some recognition from the Academy, having been nominated previously for 1992’s Chaplin and 2008’s Tropic Thunder (the latter of which, funnily enough, saw him lose to Ledger).

In any case, recent reports indicate that Marvel Studios might be planning a big Oscar push for Avengers: Endgame. But regardless of what the next year brings, it’s not like the highest grossing film of 2019 (and possibly ever) needs any awards attention to be recognized as a pretty big deal.

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Cable Network Sued For Showing Pirated Version Of Avengers: Endgame

A touching biopic about Earth’s mightiest heroes, which goes by the moniker Avengers: Endgame, has been making the rounds in theaters lately, making a pretty penny at the box office in the process. Some people, however, apparently don’t wish to give our Disney overlords any more of their hard earned cash. Going around the greedy showbiz goons, a cable network in the Philippines aired, in its entirety, a pirated copy of the MCU’s golden child.

Yep, someone got their hands on a terrible, awful, no good, very bad camcorder quality rip of Avengers: Endgame and proudly displayed it as a pay-per-view event. The cable organization, Orient Cable and Telecommunications, now faces up to a $30,000 fine and, potentially, the imprisonment of the executives of the company. Much like the Russo brothers had you locked in your seats for three hours, these movie fraudsters may wind up locked up somewhere else for a little longer.

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In all honesty though, that probably won’t happen. Since the quality was so low, making it technically not Marvel’s genuine version of the film, not much will come of this. The only reason it caught any traction in the first place was because some fans had, or still have, major cases of FOAS (Fear of Avengers Spoilers). Most of the complaints were only filed because nobody wanted to see Iron Man and Captain America make out…I mean, nothing! Just kidding, guys, no spoilers here…not yet, anyway.

Anyways, when faced with the request to remove the film from their library, they did. But, uh, they immediately put up a pirated copy of Captain Marvel instead, so, uh, ya know, these guys may not be the brightest bulbs on your LED display. Maybe don’t steal movies, folks. You wouldn’t steal a car. So don’t steal Avengers: Endgame.

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The company that dashed our sapphire-covered iPhone dreams is being charged with fraud

In 2014, it looked like Apple was poised to do for sapphire what it had done for aluminum — turn an exceptionally useful but difficult-to-machine raw material into a selling point for its flagship consumer gadgets. Apple announced a new factory in Arizona where its supplier, GT Advanced Technologies, would be loaned $578 million to produce huge synthetic sapphire crystals — known as boules — to be chopped up into incredibly scratch-resistant covers for the screens of the iPhone 6.

That iPhone never arrived. GT Advanced quickly imploded under the strain of trying to mass-produce sapphire glass, filing for bankruptcy mere months after beginning work at the Arizona plant. And today, we’re learning that the US Securities and Exchange...

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Tesla to employees: if you leak, we’ll catch you, we’ll fire you, and we might sue you

PSA: If you’ve got a Dell computer, you might want to fix this now

Your new Windows laptop typically ships with an awful lot of bloatware you don’t need. Often, it’ll just slow down your computer a tad. But occasionally, a pre-installed piece of manufacturer cruft can pose a serious security risk — and that’s why you should probably update or uninstall Dell’s SupportAssist right away.

The app, which Dell’s support page states is preinstalled on “most of all new Dell devices running Windows” and billed as “the industry’s first automated proactive and predictive support technology,” has apparently been vulnerable to a hack since at least last October, according to 17-year-old security researcher Bill Demirkapi. It’s not clear why it’s only getting patched just now.

It’s a potentially nasty one: Dell’s...

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Electric racing series Formula E lost $29 million in its fourth season

Electric racing series Formula E posted a €26.4 million (about $29 million) loss during its fiscal year ending July 31st, 2018, despite generating a record €133.4 million (about $149 million) of revenue, according to a new financial statement filed with the United Kingdom’s Companies House registry.

The results for the fiscal year Formula E reported in this filing cover the racing series’ fourth season, which began in late 2017 and ended with a pair of races in New York City in July 2018. Formula E had lost €20.8 million (about $23.2 million) on €94.5 million (about $105.7 million) worth of revenue in the previous year. It lost €35.2 million (about $39 million) on revenues of €56.6 million (about $63 million) the year before that.

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Detective Pikachu director weighs in on Sonic the Hedgehog live-action backlash

Video game adaptations used to mean dressing up attractive actors in iconic costumes and trying to stuff 20 hours of gameplay into a 90-minute movie. It didn’t really work. Now, video game adaptations are more reliant on CGI versions of favorite childhood characters appearing both realistic and either terrifying or adorable. It’s the difference between Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider and recent films like Rampage.

Detective Pikachu director Rob Letterman knows how important nailing the CGI adaptation of beloved 2D characters is to ensuring longtime fans are on board. Getting it right leads to praise for a thoughtful reworking of a character like Pikachu or Bulbasaur. Getting it wrong, unfortunately, leads to the Sonic the...

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Why century-old ship logs are key to today’s climate research

Through both sunny days and torrential storms, sailors cutting through the waters around New Zealand and Antarctica faithfully recorded the weather they encountered, building up a treasure trove of data. Over a century later, scientists are digging through these maritime records for insights about the past and future of the region’s climate — and they need the public’s help.

Knowing what the weather was up to in the past can help scientists calibrate climate models like the ones they use to predict how weather conditions are likely to change as global temperatures continue to rise. Sailors traveling around New Zealand from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s to trade goods, hunt whales, or explore Antarctica kept logs about the water and air...

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