Warner Bros' A Minecraft Movie targets Best Picture, Director and Actor after impressive $957M box office haul

Following A Minecraft Movie’s commercial success, finishing its run with a $957 million revenue, Warner Bros. has officially launched an awards campaign for the movie, titled “For Your Consideration.”

Warner Bros. has set up an entire page campaigning for A Minecraft Movie, positioning it to win numerous accolades during awards season. Targeting top honors, Warner Bros. is pushing Jack Black for Best Actor, Jared Hess as Best Director, and also aiming for Best Picture, Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, and more.

Furthermore, the campaign is also gunning for the Best Original Song award, pushing “I Feel Alive” and “Steve’s Lava Chicken.”

While many critics question the odds of A Minecraft Movie winning awards in a season dominated by the likes of Superman, Weapons, Sinners, F1: The Movie, One Battle After Another, and more, Warner Bros. seems to believe in A Minecraft Movie, considering the studio has already greenlit a sequel, alongside a release date.

A Minecraft Movie released on April 4, 2025, and was expected to bomb at the box office, but to the surprise of everyone, the movie raked in a domestic 162.8 million across 4,263 theaters, 423.9 million in the U.S. and Canada, $533.8 million internationally, pulling in a total of $957 million by July.

This makes A Minecraft Movie the third-highest-grossing film of 2025, behind the live-action Lilo & Stitch and Ne Zha 2, particularly due to newfound memes and internet culture, such as the infamous “Chicken Jockey” scene.

Following the success of A Minecraft Movie, Warner Bros. has already announced that it’s greenlit a sequel, Minecraft 2, which is scheduled for a July 23, 2027, release. However, it will face tough competition at the box office, as The Simpsons Movie 2, the sequel to the 2007 original, is also releasing on the same day.

So far, Warner Bros. hasn’t revealed much information about Minecraft 2, but teased that details for the sequel “remain deep in the mine for now. Jared Hess will return as director and co-writer of the screenplay, along with Chris Galletta, with Jack Black and Jason Momoa expected to reprise their roles as Steve and Garret “The Garbage Man” Garrison.

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