Black Panther a serious contender for Best Picture at the Academy Awards

Film critic Richard Roeper sat down with FanSided’s Mark Carman to lay out some Oscars predictions. For the first time in Oscars history a superhero movie could walk away with the night’s biggest award. Critical and box office darling Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon when it was released in February 2018. Breaking all sorts of box office records, the most unique installment in the Marvel universe also carried a ton of cultural significance being the first major superhero movie to feature a predominately black cast. With the race for Best Picture as wide open as its been in years, film critic Richard Roeper sees a path for Black Panther to win the award. “In the last two years the Academy has added 1,500 new members, and they’re almost all under the age of 50, and 49 percent of them are individuals of color,” Roeper told FanSided’s Mark Carman. “It’s become a more diverse voting block, and it’s a huge box office success which The Academy does like to reward.” That increased diversity among voters is no coincidence. In fact it probably wouldn’t have happened if not for the criticism The Academy received in 2016 when every acting category featured nothing but white actors… Read full this story

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