Variety reports that Warner Bros are planning to campaign for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II to get an Academy Award nomination for Best Motion Picture.  As fans may know the Harry Potter films have received 9 nominations in the past for technical categories but have never won.  According to the article:

Warners will “absolutely, hands-down, across-the-board” push the last installment of “Harry Potter” hoping Academy members will consider a vote for “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” as a wider nod to the entire franchise, a notion that very much helped propel “Return of the King” to Oscar glory.

While the Acad often shuns fantasy and kid fare, Warners believes it has a real shot at a nom given the pic’s emotional weight, capping a franchise that’s delivered more than $7 billion in worldwide B.O. and traced its stars from childhood to young adulthood.

For those of you who are also Lord of the Rings fans you will know that the first two films didn’t receive Oscars but Return of the King was nominated AND won in ELEVEN categories.  Hopefully something similar will happen for the Potter films, we all know they deserve it!

Thanks Mugglenet!