The 44th Annual Saturn Awards took place recently, and guess what? Black Panther came away as a big winner. Now, it’s not a well-known award show, therefore, you might not care, but at least a comic book movie walked away with five prizes.
According to what we’ve gathered from the award show, Black Panther managed to win the gold trophy for Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture, Best Director (Ryan Coogler), Best Supporting Actress (Danai Gurira), Best Production Design, and Best Make-Up.
The movie was nominated for several other awards but lost out to other films. The writing in the movie was off, therefore, it failed to win in the Best Writing category. Furthermore, while Chadwick Boseman looked the part as Black Panther, his acting wasn’t that great, so the Best Actor award went to someone else.
The biggest surprise at the award show is The Flash winning Best Superhero Adaptation Television Series over Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that shouldn’t be happening. Make no mistake, the last season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was much better than the last season of The Flash.
Additionally, Jon Bernthal won Best Actor on Television for his role in The Punisher, while Melissa Benoist took the female equivalent for her lead role in Supergirl.
We should point out that Patrick Stewart won the award for Best Supporting Actor after playing Professor Xavier in Logan back in 2017. This should come as no surprise because Mr. Stewart performed extremely well. It’s sad we may never get the chance to see him as Professor Xavier again.
We have to say, comic book movies were well represented at the Saturn Awards, and this makes us increasingly hopeful that things might change at the Oscars and other major award show in the near future.