It looks like Marvel Studios' groundbreaking comic book movie Black Panther is being set to receive the nominative Hollywood Film Award at the 2018 Hollywood Film Awards ceremony.
The Hollywood Film Awards just recently announced in a press release its decision to grant its Hollywood Film Award at the 22nd annual Hollywood Film Awards Ceremony event on November 4 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.
"Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon that has broken boundaries and created a movement, gracing the cover of Time Magazine," reads the press release. "Black Panther had the highest grossing non-sequel opening weekend of all time, showing that diversity and representation in front of and behind the camera can equal global box office success."
The Hollywood Film Awards isn't wrong of course. Not only was Black Panther the very first standalone movie to showcase a black superhero, but it was also the first all-black comic book movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Raking in more than $700 million at the domestic box office and then $1.34 billion at the global box office market, Black Panther proved to Hollywood that moviegoers were yearning for diversity and representation in the films that they watched.
Because of its success, Disney has even decided to put Black Panther at the forefront of its Oscar campaign, going as far as to put Avengers: Infinity War in the backseat while it puts all its focus on the Ryan Coogler-directed Marvel movie.
Marvel has yet to announce Black Panther 2, however, fans can get to see T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and Wakanda again in Avengers 4 when it hits cinemas on May 3, 2019.
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