Black Panther cannot be nominated for any Academy Awards until next January and yet it was the talk of last night’s Oscars® ceremony. Host Jimmy Kimmel hilighted the film in his opening monologue and later joked that it had made another $48 million since the broadcast started. Black Panther was also featured alongside Wonder Woman in a montage about the power of representation on screen.
Two of the film’s stars, Chadwick Boseman (T’Challa) and Lupita Nyong’o (Nakia), presented during the show while Danai Gurira (Okoye) and Winston Duke (M’Baku) were also in attendance. Daniel Kaluuya (W’Kabi) was there for his Best Actor nomination for Get Out, but also joined his Black Panther castmates on the red carpet.
As wonderful as it was to see Black Panther celebrated last night, the film deserves more than an honorary place at the Oscars®. The Ryan Coogler-directed film warrants strong consideration in several categories for next year’s ceremony. It should remain on the minds of Academy voters all year long, as they watch and evaluate the rest of 2018’s releases.
For your consideration: Let the ‘Black Panther’ Oscar campaign begin
6 comments
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Hell no. It was good. But not Oscar worthy.
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Maybe not in every category but it should definitely be nominated for costume design.
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Yeah. I’ll give it costume and set design.
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Funny how we’re completely ignoring all of last night’s Marvel nominations (how many Oscars did they win last night?) and going straight into campaign mode for Black Panther. Like I keep saying, one comes out, people like Gerber give it a verbal handjob, three months later it’s forgotten.
Anyway, I stopped reading after Gerber basically said “This film needs proper consideration even though I just said it’s too early in the year and I’m not saying it should be nominated.”
What a joke.
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Not gonna happen unless the studio is willing to pay millions in campaigns and parties. And probably bribe. Which is how they nominate movies in the first place…
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“There’s nowhere to go but up, as Marvel Studios, despite being nominated for ten Academy Awards hasn’t won any. That just doesn’t seem right,…”
This is what happens when people live in a superhero bubble. Most of those nominations were for visual effects. You can’t sit there with a straight face and say the effects in Iron Man, Winter Soldier, Guardians 2, etc. were better than Interstellar or Blade Runner or Inception and so forth. Outside of RDJ in the first Iron Man there’s no real standout performances, the stories are nothing to write home about and the directing, well, I know they all have a bunch of different names on them but I still wonder who the real directors are.
So yeah, for those of us who live in reality, it does seem right.