Black Panther being pushed for Best Film nomination

Sept 4, 2018 4:58:13 GMT DC-Fan said:

Sept 3, 2018 23:00:31 GMT lenlenlen1 said:

theres already a best picture category with up to ten possible nominations. Surely one of those ten could be Black Panther and problem solved.

Except that Black Panther isn't going to be 1 of those 10. Those 10 movies will most likely be from this list:

A Star is Born
Beautiful Boy
Boy Erased
The Favourite
First Man
The Front Runner
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mary, Queen of Scots
The Old Man & the Gun
On the Basis of Sex
Widows


Black Panther won't get a Best Picture nomination. That's why Disney bullied the Academy into creating the "Most Popular Film" category so Black Panther can get a non-technical Oscar.

You might be right, BUT the academy has done WAAAAY stranger things than remove one picture from a list and replace it with another. In this case a very strong argument could be made that Black Panther deserves to be that one movie. BP and Infinity War are CLEARLY the most popular movies this year. Even you cant deny that.

I for one would much rather they just nominate a movie in a category that already exists, than to create a whole new bogus category for it that doesn't really mean anything.

On the other hand, what does popular really mean anyway? Most money making? Most liked? What?

If we were to go by most popular one could argue BP or one could argue Crazy Rich Asians! Or even Star Wars The Last Jedi, which has the most divided audience I've ever seen for a star wars movie. Popular could be interpreted MANY ways.