Marvel kicks off Wakanda Forever Oscar campaign with Angela Bassett Praise
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Marvel Studios kicks off its Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Oscar campaign by highlighting Angela Bassett’s acclaimed performance as Queen Ramonda.
Marvel Studios releases its Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Oscar campaign highlighting the performance of actor Angela Bassett. Since its release in cinemas this month, the Black Panther The sequel has grossed $676 million worldwide, showing no signs of slowing down. Also, like its predecessor, the release has been met with critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences. Black Panther: Wakanda forever marks the end of Phase 4 of the MCU.
Marvel highlights Queen Ramonda de Bassett at the start of the Oscars campaign Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Sitting front and center, the campaign stands out varietyit faces that of the actor “Mesmerizing” performance The emotional weight, “deep” The themes and cultural impact are also included as reasons for how the film has distinguished itself this awards season. The poster makes it clear that Marvel intends to submit the film for Oscar nominations “all categories.”
Black Panther Oscar Story
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In 2019, the original Black Panther It was nominated for 7 Academy Awards, making history as the first film in the superhero genre to receive an award for Best Picture. The film won three awards: Best Costume Design, Best Original Score and Best Production Design. Seeing how Black Panther was considered a huge draw, the wins and nominations were unprecedented and further cemented the film’s phenomenon status, accompanied by its record-breaking box office revenue of $1.3 billion.
A similar campaign is planned for Oscar season 2023. Marvel will no doubt be campaigning for Bassett’s spot in the Best Supporting Actress category, and rightly so. Bassett’s portrait of Ramonda, the sovereign Queen Mother of Wakanda, is one Black Panther: Wakanda foreverthe most outstanding. Simultaneously mourning the death of T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), supporting an equally grieving Shuri (Letitia Wright) and leading her country, Bassett perfectly portrays Ramonda in the weight of her responsibilities. There’s a quiet grace and a powerfully heartbreaking quality to her performance that left many wondering how Bassett hasn’t already won an Oscar over the course of her substantial career (which includes a spot-on performance as Tina Turner in What does this have to do with love?).
Bassett is surrounded by many other strong performances, notable ones from Wright, Danai Gurira and Tenoch Huerta Mejía. All are fair game for this awards season, though Bassett currently has the best shot at being honored. As Marvel suggests, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a richly told story of loss, healing and legacy. It is also an allegory about power, colonization and gray areas. Along with dazzling visual effects and stellar production quality, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever makes a great case for itself, the efforts that viewers expect will not be in vain.
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