The first comic book movie ever to get one.
If the Academy hadn’t widened its gaze,Black Panthermight not have gotten the nomination.
Despite its critical acclaim according to Rotten Tomatoes, it’s the best-reviewed (and most reviewed!)
wide release of 2018 Black Pantherisn’t a traditional Black Oscar movie.
There is a place for films like that, of course.
We should never forget those history lessons.
But until now, every black Oscar film has felt, to some degree or another, like homework.
NotBlack Panther.It doesn’t feel that way because it’s not about pain; It’s about excellence.
What challenges face a man trying to be good, confronted by voluminous evidence of the bad?
How does it feel to be young, black, brilliant, and angry?
Costumes by Ruth E. Carter that melded the traditional with the timely.
I saw the film three times before I fell in love with it.
“We are home.”
Because “home” is a concept that’s difficult for the average African-American to wrap their mind around.
Too few of us know where home is.
Of course, I know where I was born, I even know where my parents were born.
A place that isn’t marked by pain, but instead by progress.
And it speaks to their elders who might’ve forgotten how to believe in fairy tales.
For the first time, I saw white kids dressing up as a black hero at comic-book conventions.
WillBlack Pantherwin the best picture Oscar?
If I had to guess, I’d say no.
It simply isn’t miserable enough for a Best Pictureora Black Best Picture.
