‘Army of the Dead’ won the Oscars Fan Favorite award. No, it did not win an Oscar

The web has spoken: “Military of the Lifeless” is the #OscarsFanFavorite film of the 12 months.

Introduced Sunday in the course of the 94th Academy Awards, the battle of Twitter fandoms noticed Zack Snyder’s zombie heist thriller beat out contenders together with box-office smash “Spider-Man: No Manner Dwelling” and finest image nominee “Dune” to take the fan-favorite award.

Contemplating Snyder’s followers manifested a whole four-hour director’s lower of “Justice League” by rallying behind a social media marketing campaign for years, “Military of the Lifeless” profitable a contest that relied on a Twitter hashtag is just not that shocking.

The gory (and prolonged) “Military of the Lifeless” sees Dave Bautista because the chief of a rag-tag group of mercenaries aiming to rob a on line casino amid a zombie apocalypse.

Snyder “is aware of he’s selecting on the bones of a style that’s already been cannibalized many occasions over; in pushing the carnage to numbing maximalist extremes, he’s saluting and mocking his forebears and attempting to high all of them anyway,” wrote Occasions movie critic Justin Chang in his evaluation. “Greater than something, he’s attempting to high himself, particularly his personal 2004 remake of George Romero’s ‘Daybreak of the Lifeless,’ his first and finest characteristic.”

Though this recognition is just not an precise Oscar, this marks the primary time the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences has introduced a fan-driven award in the course of the Oscars telecast.

In the meantime, the winners of eight Oscars classes — movie enhancing, make-up and hairstyling, authentic rating, manufacturing design, sound, documentary brief topic, animated brief and live-action brief — have been introduced earlier than the beginning of the reside broadcast.