Oh thank god, the Snyder Cut managed to shove its way into the 2022 Oscars

The 2022 Oscars ceremony is set to be revolutionary for more than just COVID numbers in some of Hollywood’s richest neighborhoods. It also saw the arrival of the first truly populist Oscars award, in the form of the #OscarsCheerMoment, an accolade decided by, and for, the baying Twitter hordes who get oh so very angry when you try to suggest that cramming three Spiders-Men into a single frame is not automatically an Academy Award-demanding achievement.

And, really: This thing was Zack Snyder’s to lose, right? Say what you like about his bona fides as a filmmaker—and we’d like to be incredibly clear that we’re not saying anything right now about his bona fides as a filmmaker—Snyder has an undeniable knack for stoking fan, let’s call it… enthusiasm for his projects, either uncompleted or not. So it was not entirely shocking that, out of all of the entire vast tapestry of filmmaking that voters had to choose from for this inaugural award—really, the span of all cinematic history, containing every emotional, exciting, beautiful, thrilling, potentially life-changing scene ever—the ultimate winner was a clip of Ezra Miller giving himself a little Sonic The Hedgehog pep talk while standing near some non-existant lightning, from Zack Snyder’s Justice League.