Author: Brian Truitt / Source: USA TODAY
From “Black Panther” to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” here are the eight movies nominated for an Oscar in the best-picture category. USA TODAY
Academy Awards nominations don’t always get it right, but on Tuesday, the Oscars killed it: The first superhero movie to really deserve an Oscar nod for best picture got one.
Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther” roared to seven nominations as Hollywood heads into the 91st annual Academy Awards on Feb.
24. It scored mostly in technical categories, but it landed the one that matters the most and everyone wants.Of the history being made this Oscars year – thank goodness Spike Lee is finally getting best-picture and best-director accolades for “BlacKkKlansman,” and hats off to “Taxi Driver” writer Paul Schrader earning his first screenplay nod for “First Reformed” – “Black Panther” means more to those outside Hollywood and especially to us superhero junkies who’ve been yearning for one of our own to be a major part of Oscar night. Audiences made it the highest-grossing movie of 2018, and the motion picture academy also apparently considers it quite a standout.
Superhero films for the longest time have missed out on the honor for any number of reasons, like the academy snootily not seeing them as “quality” films, perhaps. With a voting contingent becoming younger…
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