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Oscars: How 'Black Panther' Can Win Best Picture
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:16 pm
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Two black filmmakers — Steve McQueen ('12 Years a Slave') and Barry Jenkins ('Moonlight') — have won the Academy's top prize recently, and Ryan Coogler's Marvel superhero movie could make that three ... if the film plays its cards shrewdly and strategically.
Lost in the brouhaha that followed Moonlight's upset victory over La La Land at the 2017 Oscars was this simple fact: A movie from black writers, filmed by a black director and featuring a black cast had been named best picture for the second time in three years, joining 2014 winner 12 Years a Slave. Now, as a new awards season heats up, can a third black-themed picture — one with the added hurdle of being a superhero film, a genre the Academy rarely honors — do the same?
To go all the way, Panther needs to upstage not only such near-certain nominees as A Star Is Born, Roma and The Favourite, but also other contenders from nonwhite filmmakers, many of which engage with contemporary issues around race in a more direct way: Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman tells a story whose urgency is underscored by a Nov. 3 New York Times exposé outlining the FBI's failure to keep tabs on the growth of a violent supremacist movement. The Hate U Give and If Beale Street Could Talk, from Moonlight helmer Barry Jenkins, both amplify Black Lives Matter themes.
It's crazy that we're even having this discussion. It was a fine comic book film, but best picture? GTFO.
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This post was edited on 11/15/18 at 2:19 pm
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:19 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Ryan Coogler's Marvel superhero movie could make that three
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:20 pm to RLDSC FAN
It's a really good movie, but it's not even the best Marvel movie this year.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:22 pm to RLDSC FAN
To be fair, of all the films mentioned in the OP, Black Panther is the only one I bothered seeing. I don't go to films to be told how bad I am for being white.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:25 pm to RLDSC FAN
12 Years a Slave and Moonlight tackled highly sensitive politicized topics (homosexuality and slavery)... They were pure Oscar Bait the whole way.
Black Panther is your run of the mill comic book movie with better acting than most and a villain that you can somewhat empathize with
Black Panther is your run of the mill comic book movie with better acting than most and a villain that you can somewhat empathize with
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:26 pm to RLDSC FAN
please happen. this board hasnt had a good melt since TLJ
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
It's got zero chance to win Best Picture.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:32 pm to WestCoastAg
Good melts are always entertaining, but this one would be justified. If you love film like many of us on here do, this is just completely ridiculous. It's just another run of the mill MCU film, only with black people. IW is a far better film.
This post was edited on 11/15/18 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:40 pm to RLDSC FAN
It was an alright movie.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman tells a story whose urgency is underscored by a Nov. 3 New York Times exposé outlining the FBI's failure to keep tabs on the growth of a violent supremacist movement. The Hate U Give and If Beale Street Could Talk, from Moonlight helmer Barry Jenkins, both amplify Black Lives Matter themes.
So we're just forgetting this monumental film?
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:50 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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It's a really good movie, but it's not even the best Marvel movie this year.
Waiting for someone to use the "vote for it for Stan" argument.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 2:52 pm to RLDSC FAN
but...it wasn't the best picture? by any stretch of the imagination
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:03 pm to KirkLazarus
It was basically the same overall plot as the lion king.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:10 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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t's a really good movie, but it's not even the best Marvel movie this year.
+1000
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:10 pm to RLDSC FAN
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can a third black-themed picture — one with the added hurdle of being a superhero film, a genre the Academy rarely honors — do the same?
No.
If this is about a black director winning, there are better ones to choose from this year.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
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How 'Black Panther' Can Win Best Picture
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Black
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
quote:it wasnt even the best comic book movie of the year.
It's crazy that we're even having this discussion. It was a fine comic book film, but best picture? GTFO.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
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It's crazy that we're even having this discussion. It was a fine comic book film, but best picture?
I would take a movie like Black Panther any day of the week over the abomination academy nod to the filth that was Crash.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:37 pm to CarRamrod
Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, and Ant Man were all far superior comic book films. Black
Panther was decent I guess.
Panther was decent I guess.
Posted on 11/15/18 at 3:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Steve McQueen ('12 Years a Slave')
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Barry Jenkins ('Moonlight')
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Ryan Coogler's 'Black Panther'
One of these is not like the others.
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