Fans are moved when Robert Downey Jr. sacrifice himself as Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame and cheer when Tom Hiddleston schemes as Loki. But even if they are repeatedly asked to consider this with film awards, there have not been such individual awards among the big, reputable awards until now. This has now changed.
Angela Bassett: First MCU Feature Film Award and first MCU Golden Globe
Angela Bassett won the Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It is the first time that a role in a Marvel film has won such a prestigious acting film award.
And it’s not the only story Bassett made with it. It really is also the very first Golden Globe for an MCU movie. So far there have been only three nominations for “Black Panther” (movie, song and score) and now, alongside Bassett, another nomination for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (for the song). Another reason for this is that unlike the Oscars, there are no technical categories at the Globes.
Incidentally, Bassett is only the second actress ever to be nominated for a Marvel role at one of the major American film awards. – previously just Ryan Reynolds for “Deadpool”, also at the Golden Globes.
At competitor DC, on the other hand, there were already examples that acting performances can also be worth a price – at least if the Joker is embodied. Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix won Golden Globes for their respective portrayals of the legendary villain (in “The Dark Knight” and in “Joker”) (who previously won fellow Joker Jack Nicholson for his performance in Tim Burton’s “Batman.” Ledger and Phoenix both won the Oscar, which is a few notches above the Golden Globes in terms of reputation and is considered the most important film award in the world.Is that also conceivable for Bassett?
Is there an Oscar for Angela Bassett?
Basically, you should know that journalists vote for the Golden Globes, while filmmakers vote for the Oscars. Contests don’t come naturally to begin with, especially since the Globes have been criticized in the past for favoring big names. With the partial subdivision there into ‘drama’ and ‘musical and comedy’, it is also a bit easier for lighter subjects to win prizes for acting, for example.
However, there is no such distinction in the categories of supporting actors. And while Bassett’s win isn’t an indication, it could still be an indication that the Golden Globe award will also make her more aware of many Oscar voters. At least for a nomination, the overlapping dates could also help her. The nominations for the Oscars start tomorrow, January 12, 2023. They will then run until January 17, 2023 and the nominations will be announced on January 24, 2023.
At the Globes, Bassett competed against Kerry Condon (“The Banshees Inisherin”), Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Dolly de Leon (“Triangle Of Sadness”) and Carey Mulligan (“She Said”) by means of. Condon is currently considered a hot Oscar favorite. That Bassett will surprise and triumph here at the award ceremony on March 12, 2023, is still not completely excluded. We consider a nomination very likely at this time.
Oscars for the MCU? This is the yield so far
That alone would make Angela Bassett history again. To date, no actor has been nominated for an Oscar for an MCU role. Usually MCU movies only make the final list in more technical or feature categories. 18 of the 21 MCU movie nominations to date fall in the categories of visual effects, sound editing, sound mixing, production design, costumes and makeup. There are also nominations for best song, best film score and one for best film – the last three nominations were all for “Black Panther”. It is the only film to date that also won an Oscar: for costume, film music and production design.
In the following article you will find an overview of all Golden Globes winners: