When the nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday, fans were disappointed to see that the Marvel-Sony blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home failed to win a nomination for Best Picture. The critically acclaimed and commercially successful film was tipped to be one of the rare superhero films to earn a Best Picture Oscar nod. But in the end, it failed to find a place among the ten nominees. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel is among those who feel the film has been unjustly ‘snubbed’. The late-night chat show host used the February 8 episode of his show Jimmy Kimmel Live to attack the Academy Awards. During his monologue, he referred to No Way Home and said, “How did it not get one of the 10 nominations for best picture? Forget the fact that the movie made $750 million [in the US] and is still going. This was a great movie. It wasn’t in the top 10 best movies of the year?”

Jimmy particularly took offence to satirical comedy Don’t Look Up pipping No Way Home in the nominees’ list. “There were three Spider-Men in it. You’re telling me Don’t Look Up was better than Spider-Man? It most certainly was not,” he said.

The host argued that the voters of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences, who determine the nominees, were swayed by Don’t Look Up’s heavyweight cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep.