BLACK PANTHER Gets A WGA Nomination; Does This Fare Well For the Screenplay's Oscar Chances?

BLACK PANTHER Gets A WGA Nomination; Does This Fare Well For the Screenplay's Oscar Chances?

In its first major screenplay nomination of awards season, will BLACK PANTHER follow the steps of LOGAN to achieve a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination?

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By Dragonsfoe - Jan 08, 2019 07:01 AM EST
Filed Under: Black Panther
Source: Deadline
The WGA nominations are huge indicators of the Best Original and Adapted Screenplay nominations for this year's Oscar ceremony, and over the past few years, the Writer's Guild has been obsessed with superhero movies. Deadpool secured a nomination in 2016, while Guardians of the Galaxy achieved a nomination in the past half-decade as well. But it is worth noting that only Logan has been a constant in both the Writer's Guild and the Academy's picks. The question is - on which side will Black Panther fall?

Yesterday, the WGA nominations were announced, for Best Adapted Screenplay, their list is as follows:
  • BlackKklansman
  • Black Panther
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
  • A Star Is Born
  • Can You Ever Forgive Me?

With no other real competiion, Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole's screenplay is expected to secure a nomination when voting is all said and done. The WGA nod can only be a benefit for the film's awards campaign. The closest competion analysts believe the film has is Damien Chazelle's First Man, though many believe that the film has fallen off the radar entirely. For the superhero genre, it's about time it gets its due.

Do you think Black Panther will be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay?
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aflynn
aflynn - 1/8/2019, 8:08 AM
Kurne
Kurne - 1/8/2019, 8:13 AM
Black Panther was a genuinely great film. The general audience say so as much as fans and critics. Have no idea why people have been throwing around the "it was just a typical MCU movie" thing these last few weeks.
WakandanQueen
WakandanQueen - 1/8/2019, 8:15 AM
That's awesome. Out of the cbms that got WGA nominations, only Logan ended up getting an Oscar nomination. So we'll see. Great writing anyways, especially the Ancestral Plane scenes.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 1/8/2019, 8:16 AM
@WakandanQueen - those were all well done; my favorite was Killmonger's
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 1/8/2019, 8:48 AM
@WakandanQueen - My favorite scenes of the film, for sure.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 1/8/2019, 9:23 AM
@WakandanQueen - Ancestral Plane scenes aside, I really loved the scene with T'Challa confronting Zuri and Killmonger and T'Challa's head to head in the throne for the writing.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 1/8/2019, 8:16 AM
When you put it up with the likes of Moonlight, The Big Short, The Imitation Game, 12 Years A Slave, Argo, The Social, Network, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, etc. etc., just feels like it doesn't belong quite in the ranks of top 5 of the year.
Skrull
Skrull - 1/8/2019, 9:12 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - None of those films is in contention this year.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 1/8/2019, 9:14 AM
@Skrull - Previous winners.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 1/8/2019, 9:25 AM
@MosquitoFarmer - No offense man, but you basically said I'm gonna say a 2018 movie isn't amongst the best of other 2018 movies by comparing to movies that didn't come out in 2018.

That doesn't really make sense.
MosquitoFarmer
MosquitoFarmer - 1/8/2019, 9:48 AM
@DnA - No that's true. That's more me saying it shouldn't win, but even compared to those other nominees and other lesser seen films out this year, it just seems like a bit of a stretch. But in all fairness, because it is an adapted screenplay from a long history of its comicbook counterpart, I'm certainly not saying it was bad or un-worth merit, because they did an incredible job bringing that to life. But several poignant scenes aside, I just think it's out of place for this Oscar category. Who cares though? If it wins, all the more power to it.
Kurne
Kurne - 1/8/2019, 8:20 AM
I really do wonder if BP didn't get as great reviews as it did, people wouldn't be so down on it.

Aquaman got OK reviews and one of the main selling points I've seen from people online is pretty much that; they simply think its much better than those "OK" reviews/that it deserves more praise.

Same with Venom. People defend that thing to the death, only ever talking about how its simply better than the reviews said it is/at least a fun time at the movies.

All that, and BP has the complete opposite talk. It didn't "deserve" its stellar reviews.

Where is the middle ground, I'm asking. People are making the critics out to be the villains all by themselves. No matter what score they give.
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