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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How Best Picture nominee ‘Black Panther’ is a rebuke to white supremacy

    Marvel’s “Black Panther” made history last year as the first big budget superhero movie with a black director and a predominantly black cast.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 13, 2019 • 1 min read

    Marvel’s “Black Panther” made history last year as the first big budget superhero movie with a black director and a predominantly black cast. It made history again earlier this year when it became the first superhero movie ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It’s actually up for seven Oscars total, including Original Score, Costume Design and Production Design. When the movie came out, we talked to journalist Jamil Smith, who wrote a TIME cover story about why Black Panther was an important cultural moment for black America.

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    Press Play Oscars Edition: Barry Jenkins, Black Panther, and more
    1. 0:00Tim Blake Nelson on ‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ and being the Coen brothers’ muse of sorts
    2. 13:26How Best Picture nominee ‘Black Panther’ is a rebuke to white supremacyYou’re reading this
    3. 24:58The tiniest details matter in the stop-motion world of ‘Isle of Dogs’
    4. 34:42Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Amy Ta

      Digital News & Culture Editor

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      Jamil Smith

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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    Press Play Oscars Edition: Barry Jenkins, Black Panther, and more
    1. 0:00Tim Blake Nelson on ‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ and being the Coen brothers’ muse of sorts
    2. 13:26How Best Picture nominee ‘Black Panther’ is a rebuke to white supremacyYou’re reading this
    3. 24:58The tiniest details matter in the stop-motion world of ‘Isle of Dogs’
    4. 34:42Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
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