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"Black Panther" Breaks Barriers As the 1st Superhero Movie to Be Nominated For 'Best Picture'

Updated: Nov 18, 2019

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"Black Panther" Breaks Barriers As the 1st Superhero Movie to Be Nominated For 'Best Picture'
📸: Marvel Studios

Wakanda mania has taken over pop culture and now it is making it's way to the Oscar stage. The first majority Black superhero Marvel movie continues to break the glass ceiling being the first superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture.


"Black Panther" is up against "BlackKkKlansman," "Bohemian Rhapsody," "The Favourite," "Green Book," "A Star is Born" and "Vice." The superhero film that came closest to snagging a Best Picture nomination was "The Dark Knight" back in 2009, but it didn't make the category to many people's dismay.


The Ryan Coogler-directed film is also nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Original Song, Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design. The film was able to gross $400 million domestically and $1.3 billion internationally making it the third highest grossing film in the country behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" and "Avatar."


Look below for the full list of the Oscar nominees:


Best Director


Alfonso Cuaron (Roma) Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favourite) Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman) Adam McKay (Vice) Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War)


Best Actress


Yalitza Aparicio (Roma) Glenn Close (The Wife) Olivia Colman (The Favourite) Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born) Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)


Best Actor


Christian Bale (Vice) Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born) Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)


Best Supporting Actress


Amy Adams (Vice) Marina de Tavira (Roma) Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) Emma Stone (The Favourite) Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)


Best Supporting Actor


Mahershala Ali (Green Book) Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born) Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) Sam Rockwell (Vice)


Best Original Screenplay


The Favourite (Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara) First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Green Book (Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly and Nick Vallelonga) Roma (Alfonso Cuaron) Vice (Adam McKay)


Best Adapted Screenplay


A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters and Eric Roth) The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and Kevin Willmott) If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)


Best Makeup & Hairstyling


Border Mary Queen of Scots Vice


Best Costume Design


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Mary Zophres) Black Panther (Ruth E. Carter) The Favourite (Sandy Powell) Mary Poppins Returns (Sandy Powell) Mary Queen of Scots (Alexandra Byrne)

Best Cinematography


The Favourite (Robbie Ryan) Never Look Away (Caleb Deschanel) Roma (Alfonso Cuaron) A Star Is Born (Matty Libatique) Cold War (Lukasz Zal)


Best Original Song


"All the Stars" (Black Panther, written by Kendrick Lamar, Al Shux, Sounwave, SZA and Anthony Tiffith) Performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA

"I'll Fight" (R.B.G., written by Diane Warren) Performed by Jennifer Hudson

"The Place Where Lost Things Go" (Mary Poppins Returns, written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman) Performed by Emily Blunt

"Shallow" (A Star Is Born, written by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt) Performed by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

"When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings" (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, written by Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch) Performed by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson


Best Original Score


Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson) BlacKkKlansman (Terence Blanchard) If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell) Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat) Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman)


Best Documentary Feature


Free Solo Hale County This Morning, This Evening Minding the Gap Of Fathers and Sons R.B.G.


Best Animated Feature


Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Mirai Ralph Breaks the Internet Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse


Best Foreign-Language Film


Capernaum (Lebanon) Cold War (Poland) Never Look Away (Germany) Roma (Mexico) Shoplifters (Japan)


Best Sound Mixing


Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody First Man Roma A Star Is Born


Best Sound Editing


Black Panther Bohemian Rhapsody First Man A Quiet Place Roma


Best Production Design


Black Panther (Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart) The Favourite (Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton) First Man (Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas) Mary Poppins Returns (John Myhre and Gordon Sim) Roma (Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez)


Best Visual Effects


Avengers: Infinity War Christopher Robin First Man Ready Player One Solo: A Star Wars Story


Best Film Editing


BlacKkKlansman (Barry Alexander Brown) Bohemian Rhapsody (John Ottman) The Favourite (Yorgos Mavropsaridis) Green Book (Patrick J. Don Vito) Vice (Hank Corwin)


Best Animated Short


Animal Behaviour Bao Late Afternoon One Small Step Weekends


Best Live-Action Short


Detainment Fauve Marguerite Mother Skin


Best Documentary Short


Black Sheep End Game Lifeboat A Night at the Garden Period. End of Sentence.


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