Oprah Winfrey believes that Black Panther was 'something bigger than a movie' as she recalled the moment she watched the Oscars heavyweight earlier this year.
The media mogul made the remarks on Monday in front of more than 100 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Disney chief Bob Iger, whom she said she emailed right after seeing the blockbuster.
'I sent an email to my friend Bobby and said, "Hi Bobby! Just saw it. It's worth everything I've heard and more. A phenomenon in every way, on every level. Makes me tear up to think that little black children will grow up with 'Wakanda forever.' It's game-changing, it's pride-making, it's dazzling, it's phenomenal,"' Winfrey said.
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Oprah Winfrey believes that Black Panther was 'something bigger than a movie' as she recalled the moment she watched the Oscars heavyweight earlier this year. Winfrey made the remarks on Monday in front of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Winfrey said the Ryan Coogler-directed Marvel movie brought out 'throngs and throngs' of people who brought their families 'and then they went back and they got more family members, and then they went back and told their coworkers and their friends, because everybody recognized that something bigger than a movie was happening up on that screen'.
'We all knew — those of us who have come from the culture and the history — how lit it was. It just gave us life! It gave us life! But it was so affirming for everyone who saw it because you knew that it was bigger than this moment — it was a cultural happening — and just to be in the theater was to be a part of all of that,' Winfrey said.
Winfrey said Black Panther the movie was a 'cultural happening' that 'gave us life'
As Hollywood's awards season properly gets under way, Black Panther is poised to potentially be a major nominee for best picture.
Coogler's superhero sensation has notched countless records, pulverized box-office myths and set new marks for inclusivity. And now, Black Panther is in line to shatter Oscar norms, too.
All of this year's contenders have by now screened, and Oscar prognosticators generally have Black Panther in, comfortably, as a best picture nominee.
Both the pundit survey Gurus of Gold and Hollywood Reporter awards analyst Scott Feinberg place Black Panther fifth, behind front-runners A Star Is Born, Roma, Green Book and The Favourite.
Gold Derby slots Black Panther in at No. 7, still easily within the category's range of up to 10 nominees.
And unless something drastic happens, next month Black Panther will become the first comic book film to be nominated for best picture and easily Marvel Studios' most significant Oscar contender ever.
That's very good news for ABC's February 24 telecast which is coming off an all-time low of 26.5 million viewers.
'Makes me tear up to think that little black children will grow up with "Wakanda forever." It's game-changing, it's pride-making, it's dazzling, it's phenomenal,' Winfrey said
For the makers of Black Panther, it's a new chapter for a film - with more than $1.3billion in ticket sales, the third-highest all-time domestic gross and the biggest box-office hit ever directed by a black man - that has already filled record books
Some 55.2 million watched Titanic sweep the 1997 Oscars, and producers have long harbored dreams of another big-tent blockbuster pulling viewers to a broadcast increasingly dominated by independent films like The Shape of Water, Moonlight and Spotlight.
Usually, bigger movies mean bigger ratings.
For the makers of Black Panther, it's a new chapter for a film - with more than $1.3billion in ticket sales, the third-highest all-time domestic gross and the biggest box-office hit ever directed by a black man - that has already filled record books.
For Coogler, making Black Panther couldn't be more personal.
It was a journey in finding his own connection to Africa. While developing the script, he visited South Africa, Kenya and the Kingdom of Lesotho - a tiny nation that inspired Coogler's Wakanda.
'In simple terms, the film is what brought me to the continent,' says Coogler.
Ryan Coogler's superhero sensation has notched countless records, pulverized box-office myths and set new marks for inclusivity
'It was kind of a lifelong thing just to get there and see it. The thing that I found was a sense of identity as an African person. I found in those trips and through that research a definition for myself of what it means to be African. That was a question I was seeking as a filmmaker.'
Coogler had a sense he wasn't alone in wanting that connection, that others felt a need for it, too. 'But,' he says, 'I could never imagine to the extent that it did.'
Black Panther arrived to feverish enthusiasm and debuted in the most resplendent and regal Hollywood premiere of the decade.
It has been called 'a defining moment for Black America,' pop-culture myth-making at its best and the best big-budget studio epic in ages.
Parents took their kids and kids took their parents in a groundbreaking generational event. Theaters were rented out.
And it was the No. 1 film at the US box office for five straight weeks.
'We always saw it as a film to watch with your loved ones, with your friends and with strangers, in communal settings,' says Coogler. 'People are still interested in doing that and it feels fortunate.'
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The media mogul made the remarks on Monday in front of more than 100 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...
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