If you watched this year’s Oscars ceremony, you may have noticed a film kept getting mentioned that wasn’t part of the festivities – “Black Panther.” The Marvel Studios film is blowing up the box office, with over $900 million worldwide, as of this writing, and doesn’t look to be stopping anytime soon. While the money has been a huge story, the near unanimous critical-acclaim and fan reaction has a lot of people talking about potential Oscar noms in the future.
One such person talking about “Black Panther’s” Oscars future is none other than director Christopher Nolan. No stranger to superheroes, Nolan’s great superhero epic, “The Dark Knight” became one of the driving factors for expanding the Best Picture category to include more films, after its perceived “snub” back in 2009. Mentioned in Deadline’s Oscars wrap-up, Nolan gave his support for “Black Panther” to be included into the Oscars race next year. While there was no quote, Deadline says, “[Nolan] predicted Black Panther will be among the Best Picture nominees in 2019.”
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Deadline backs up his statements by mentioning that Disney has already been talking about how they’ll be pushing hard for “Black Panther” to be represented at next year’s awards, with the outlet saying they’ve heard first-hand from a Disney executive that this is the case. Also mentioned as a potential Disney awards-contender is the upcoming “Mary Poppins Returns,” which stars actress Emily Blunt.
If “Black Panther” were to be nominated next year, it would be a massive accomplishment. No superhero film has ever been included in the Best Picture category. This year, however, “Logan” was able to break out of the technical awards basement that most superhero films find themselves in, and land itself a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. While it didn’t win, many people thought this was a sign that superhero films could eventually breakthrough into the major awards contention.
There was also talk about “Wonder Woman” being an outside contender at a big-time nomination, but alas, that never panned out. However, not even “Logan” or “Wonder Woman” is riding the high that “Black Panther” is riding, currently. It looks like if there was ever a time this could happen, “Black Panther” could be that movie.
Perhaps, next February, the Academy will say, “Wakanda forever!”
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I’m happy for the makers of Black Panther and apprdciate the film’s significance, but I hope that serious films won’t continue to get squeezed out by big superhero action blockbusters.
The Oscars is one of the few places where smaller, artier films can get some recognition.
But wasn’t the reason that the Best Pic nominee count was expanded to nine was to give the blockbuster films a shot? Sunday night’s telecast was the lowest-rated in history, right? I read it likely had a lot to do with the Best Pic nominees being almost entirely made up of art-house movies. Save for “Get Out” and “Dunkirk,” most nominated films didn’t crack $100M at the box office.
I’d rather the Academy continued to nominate the films it felt were deserving of awards, rather than pandering to audiences and populism (if they do however end up considering Black Panther to be one of the nine best films of the year, fair enough).
Anyway, I think there are other reasons why the Academy Awards are finding less favour with the public. The Weinstein fallout hasn’t done Hollywood any favours, and whilst #MeToo may be extremely admirable, it feels a lot like being lectured on race relations by the Trump administration.
Their is nothing Oscar worthy about BP. #sorrynotsorry
Agreed. While it’s a good film and a seminal cultural event to be sure, it’s not that good a film to rate a nomination. It is a Marvel film – slightly better than most of them, but still created from the same blueprint.
if it gets a nomination it will purely be on the basis of pop cultural impact instead of merit, that 3rd act cgi fest alone should make it ineligible
This conversation is irrelevant and completely redundant. Get some actual film news that is interesting!
And who gives a feck what Nolan says anyway.
Black Panther makes too much money to be nominated for Best Picture. The elitists will be so confused that there’s a Best Picture Nominee that everyone has seen. It’ll ruin their secret little club.