{"id":3900,"date":"2018-08-26T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/08\/26\/marvel-is-pushing-for-black-panther-to-be-nominated-for-best-picture-not-best-popular-film\/"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T16:22:12","slug":"marvel-is-pushing-for-black-panther-to-be-nominated-for-best-picture-not-best-popular-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/08\/26\/marvel-is-pushing-for-black-panther-to-be-nominated-for-best-picture-not-best-popular-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Is Pushing for \u2018Black Panther\u2019 to Be Nominated for Best Picture, Not Best Popular Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reactions to the Academy&#8217;s announcement of a new Best Popular Film award have been mixed, which is a polite way of saying that most consider it a bad idea \u2014 especially in the year of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/black-panther\/\" id=\"auto-tag_black-panther\">Black Panther<\/a>,&#8221; the rare superhero movie to be as well received among critics as it is among audiences. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-black-panther-oscars-best-picture-20180823-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a new Los Angeles Times report<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/marvel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvel\">Marvel<\/a> Studios head Kevin Fiege has invested in a &#8220;significant awards season budget&#8221; for the first time, and doesn&#8217;t want to settle for the new award.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/08\/sterling-k-brown-reacts-popular-film-oscar-black-panther-art-1201994433\/\" title=\"Sterling K. Brown Reacts to Best Popular Film Oscar, Calls \u2018Black Panther\u2019 a \u2018Piece of Art\u2019 Regardless of Popularity\">Sterling K. Brown Reacts to Best Popular Film Oscar, Calls \u2018Black Panther\u2019 a \u2018Piece of Art\u2019 Regardless of Popularity<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I think [Academy CEO] Dawn Hudson would crawl in a hole if &#8216;Black Panther&#8217; gets snubbed for best picture and winds up landing in the popular film category,\u201d one anonymous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/oscars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oscars\">Oscars<\/a> consultant said to the Times. \u201cThe funny thing is that Dawn would be way more disappointed than anyone at Marvel.\u201d\u00a0Disney has hired Cynthia Swartz, a veteran Oscar strategist, to lead the film&#8217;s award campaign.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/08\/mark-wahlberg-oscars-best-popular-film-1201993256\/\" title=\"Mark Wahlberg Is Into the Oscars\u2019 Best Popular Film Award: \u2018We\u2019d Have Won a Couple\u2019\">Mark Wahlberg Is Into the Oscars\u2019 Best Popular Film Award: \u2018We\u2019d Have Won a Couple\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see the hard work and the effort and the vision and the belief of the talented filmmaker Ryan Coogler, who sat across the table from us a few years ago and said, \u2018I have been wrestling with questions about my past and my heritage and I think I really want to tell a story within this movie,\u2019 \u201d Feige said. \u201cAnd that he did it so unbelievably well and with so much impact\u2026seeing that potentially being recognized is what excites me the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reactions to the Academy&#8217;s announcement of a new Best Popular Film award have been mixed, which is a polite way of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-10U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}