We had one film release this past weekend with the potential for Oscar nominations.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

In 1993, Steven Spielberg adapted Michael Crichton’s cautionary tale about the hazards of scientific advancement and cloning into a blockbuster adventure where humans came face to face with long vanished dinosaurs. The film was filled with awe and wonder, Spielberg’s stock in trade. It made archaeology cool again, even if it was distant from Spielberg’s other archaeology-based adventures with Indiana Jones, and dinosaurs surged in popularity and interest among young audiences.

So realistic were the creatures Spielberg and legendary effects pioneers Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri created that it took home three Oscar nominations, winning each of them for Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects. The film, which would become one of the highest grossing films of all time, second only to Spielberg’s own E.T. at the time and currently ranking 17th on the all-time inflation-adjusted list, spawned two more sequels before the whole series was moth-ballsed for fourteen years and resurrected again three years ago with Jurassic World. The 1997 sequel, The Lost World managed a single Oscar nomination for Visual effects with Randal M. Dutra replacing Tippett on the nomination list. A further four years later, the third film couldn’t manage a single Oscar nomination.

What’s most surprising is that 2015’s Jurassic World followed a similar playbook to Jurassic Park borrowing heavily on music cues and almost duplicated senses of wonder and awe, limited not to the discovery of dinosaurs but to the idea that an entire theme park was built around them. The film sits 7 ranks below the original on the all-time inflation adjusted list, having made over $650 million at the box office. Yet the film’s popularity didn’t translate over to the Oscars where it was ignored for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Sound Editing, the categories in which the original thrived.

With so little support for two of the three Jurassic Park sequels from the Academy, it’s little wonder that the buzz surrounding the second film isn’t as high for Oscar consideration. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has already under-performed the opening weekend by roughly $50 million and is destined to finish far below the original. Combine that with the abysmal response from critics and it’s unlikely the film makes any play for Oscar this year, especially with so much competition. Still, there’s always the possibility that the new effects impress the Visual Effects Branch and they toss it a nom, but I suspect an appearance on their shortlist will be as far as the film ultimately goes.