Avengers: Endgame Director Joe Russo is Excited for Joker at the Oscars

Avengers: Endgame might not have gotten that much recognition at the Oscars this year, but it looks like the film's co-director Joe Russo is pretty glad that another comic book movie is making waves at the 92^nd Academy Awards.

Despite the controversy surrounding the film's release, Todd Phillip's Joker movie has become one of the leading films at this year's Oscars, taking in 11 nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences including nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.

Joe Russo just recently spoke with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the Academy Awards presentation this Sunday, and during the discussion, the filmmaker was asked what he thought of Joker and its overwhelming success.

The director wasn't in the least bit bitter about Joker overshadowing Endgame at the Awards circuit. Instead, Russo praised the movie, saying that it was representative of what people going through existential isolation and crisis are feeling.

"I just saw it recently. Unfortunately, I was shooting almost the entire time the movie was out. I loved it," Russo told the entertainment news outlet, "I thought it was a beautiful piece of filmmaking. It was a very tragic, very modern story and really representative of existential isolation and the crisis a lot of people are feeling. The moment in it when he's on the talk show, where it's the idea of everyone in the world right now grabbing their megaphones and trying to shout each other down, and he's reacting against that. It's certainly a dark movie and a disturbing movie with a very important message to it. We're ecstatic that it's being recognized. It broke through the stigma that seems to be against these films, certainly at the Academy."

We love how supportive Russo is of the movie. Joker was a commercial and critical success for DC, and it's been making waves for the comic book movie genre. If the film does win the Best Picture at the Oscars this weekend, it will be the first-ever film in its genre to do so.

That's not to say that Endgame wasn't great. The film was also a success, a fitting end to ten years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Avengers: Endgame is available on Digital HD, Blu-Ray, and DVD.

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