Warner Bros launching 'groundbreaking campaign' to get Wonder Woman nominated for Best Picture Oscar

A comic book movie has never been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture or Best Director, but Wonder Woman is hoping to change that.

According to Variety, Warner Bros is mounting a major campaign to push the film for the 2018 ceremony's top prizes.

If Wonder Woman won either of the awards it would achieve a feat not even Christopher Nolan could with The Dark Knight and make director Patty Jenkins only the second woman ever to win the Best Director prize (following Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010).

It won't come cheap though, as the cost of putting a film up for Oscar consideration gets more expensive every year as more advertising, screeners, screenings and talent time is required.

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