Disney is so confident in Marvel’s Black Panther that they’re campaigning the critically-acclaimed superhero movie in 16 major categories for next year’s Academy Awards, with one notable exception.
The only major category for a live-action feature that Disney is not pursuing is Best Actress. Instead, Disney is running the film’s main female actors in the Best Supporting Actress category. This makes a lot of sense, as even though Black Panther has a number of excellent female performers, none of them — including Lupita Nyong’o — really qualify as being in a “leading” role.
Disney has revealed the categories and candidates they’re campaigning for on its official For Your Consideration site, but here’s the list in full:
BEST PICTURE
- KEVIN FEIGE, p.g.a.
BEST DIRECTOR
- RYAN COOGLER
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
- RYAN COOGLER & JOE ROBERT COLE
BEST ACTOR
- CHADWICK BOSEMAN
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- MICHAEL B. JORDAN
- MARTIN FREEMAN
- DANIEL KALUUYA
- WINSTON DUKE
- STERLING K. BROWN
- FOREST WHITAKER
- ANDY SERKIS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- LUPITA NYONG’O
- DANAI GURIRA
- LETITIA WRIGHT
- ANGELA BASSETT
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
- RACHEL MORRISON
BEST FILM EDITING
- MICHAEL P. SHAWVER
- DEBBIE BERMAN, ACE
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
- PRODUCTION DESIGNER – HANNAH BEACHLER
- SET DECORATOR – JAY HART
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
- RUTH CARTER
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
- JOEL HARLOW
- CAMILLE FRIEND
- KEN DIAZ
BEST SOUND MIXING
- RE-RECORDING MIXERS – STEVE BOEDDEKER, BRANDON PROCTOR
- SOUND MIXER – PETER DEVLIN
BEST SOUND EDITING
- SUPERVISING SOUND EDITORS- BENJAMIN A. BURTT, STEVE BOEDDEKER
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
- GEOFFREY BAUMANN
- JESSE JAMES CHISHOLM
- CRAIG HAMMACK
- DAN SUDICK
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
- LUDWIG GÖRANSSON
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
- “ALL THE STARS,” WRITTEN BY K. DUCKWORTH, MARK ANTHONY SPEARS, AL SHUCKBURGH, SOLANA ROWE
PERFORMED BY KENDRICK LAMAR, SZA
Though Marvel movies have been nominated for Oscars in technical categories before, Black Panther is the first of the studio’s films to receive a significant awards season budget behind it. Part of Disney and Marvel’s strategy is to reportedly focus on what the film has meant to underrepresented artists and audiences of color around the world.
Oscar voting for nominations opens January 7, 2019 and closes January 14th, with nominations announced January 22, 2019. Here’s hoping Black Panther will receive a few nominations in a major category that doesn’t have anything to do with visual effects or sound design.
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