Harry Potter fails to enchant Oscar voters

Over the past decade Harry Potter has captured the hearts of a generation. Spanning numerous books, movies, and merchandise it has become one of the most successful franchises in the world. Aside from enchanting children and making millions of dollars, the last instalment in the series was unsuccessful at mesmerizing the Oscar voters.
                                                                  

Many people believe Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was snubbed at the February 26, broadcast of the 2012 Oscars.  The movie was nominated for best art direction, makeup, and visual effects but lost all three.  
            Diehard Harry Potter fan Christine O’Neal, 21, expressed her reaction to the film not being nominated for a more significant Oscar.
“My immediate thoughts about Harry Potter not being nominated was that it’s so sad that a series of movies that have made this much of an impact on the world could be simply disregarded when it came to some of the major award categories,”
            The eight films in the series were nominated 12 times but have not won a single Oscar.

                                               

            Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch took to her Twitter to express her frustration tweeting “Agggghhhh this is infuriating… bloody muggles #oscarfail.”
            Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the third highest-grossing film of all time behind Titanic and Avatar. However sometimes box office revenue doesn’t translate to Oscar success.  
            “I think Harry Potter deserves an Oscar because of the sheer amount of talent that is in the cast,” O’Neal said.
            O’Neal feels that a main reason the series was snubbed was because of the content and demographic of the films.
            “I think that if they had been in any other franchise for this long, portraying such strong characters that they would have been nominated a while ago, but because it’s Harry Potter and it’s a ‘kids movie’ and has so much of a cult following that people don’t take it so seriously,” she said.
            Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe agrees with O’Neal saying in an interview that there is some “snobbery” in the Academy.  
            “I do think that the talent deserves Oscar recognition, but I do think that the impact on our culture merits some recognition as well,” O’Neal said.
            Although the series did not receive an Oscar or an achievement award it did get recognition from host Billy Crystal, who acknowledged the financial impact of the films.

Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and Daniel Radcliffe at the premiere of the eighth and last Harry Potter film.