The newest Marvel film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is out and Ryan Coogler has returned to write and direct the sequel. The film stars Letitia Wright, Angela Basset, Lupita Nyong’o, Martin Freeman, Winston Duke, Tenoch Huerta, Danai Gurira, etc. Letitia Wright’s Shuri as you may know, is the real protagonist of the film since Chadwick Boseman tragically passed away. I conjured a lot of hope as I stepped into the theatres to watch Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, hoping that the film is good. I knew this would hit my breaking point if I saw another mediocre venture from Marvel but Ryan Coogler managed to make this film work. As it happens, the Academy agrees with me as the sequel has been shortlisted in 5 Categories for Oscar nominations.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Leads MCU as the Oscars!
The Academy Awards of Merit announced their pre-nominations today and it looks like despite having a lackluster 2022, Marvel Studios is able to actively participate in the prestigious awards ceremony because of Ryan Coogler’s follow-up to Black Panther, which itself won big at the 2019 Oscars. The sequel wasn’t able to match the number of nods Black Panther had gotten (7), but it has the most number pre-nominations than any MCU film in a while. Without further ado, let’s see in which categories has the film impressed the Academy.
Makeup and Hairstyling
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Amsterdam
- Babylon
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Blonde
- Crimes of the Future
- Elvis
- Emancipation
- The Whale
Sound
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Batman
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Elvis
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Moonage Daydream
- Top Gun: Maverick
Visual Effects
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
- Jurassic World Dominion
- Nope
- Thirteen Lives
- Top Gun: Maverick
Music (Original Score)
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Devotion
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- The Fablemans
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Guillermo del Toro’s Pinnocchio
- Nope
- She Said
- The Woman King
- Women Talking
Music (Original Song)
- “Time” from Amsterdam
- “Nothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)” from Avatar: The Way of Water
- “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- “This is A Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once
- “Ciao Papa” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- “Til You’re Home” from A Man Called Otto
- “Naatu Naatu” from RRR
- “My Mind & Me” from Slenda Gomez: My Mind & Me
- “Good Afternoon” from Spirited
- “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman
- “Stand Up” from Till
- “Holy My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick
- “Dust & Ash” from The Voice of Dust and Ash
- “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing
- “New Body Rhumba” from White Noise
It’s important to know that these are simply the shortlisted films and only 5 of these from each category would go on to the next round i.e., the official nominations which are supposed to revealed on January 24th 2023. In the visual effects, department another Marvel movie has made its place at least till the pre-nominations phase- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The Sam Raimi film happens to be the only film in the Oscar race except for Coogler’s sequel.
The 95th Oscars Ceremony is going to take place on 12th March 2023. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is playing in theatres near you.
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