Welcome to the Marvel Studios news podcast. My name is Sean Gerber.

I am joined as always by Paul Herman.

Paul, how's it going?

It's pretty good, pretty good.

Just going through all the crazy Academy Award nominees you know movies I need to see and we go see Vice this weekend with my with my wife and her family and it's going to be fun so yeah it's going to be

got a lot of talk about for Academy Award stuff it's also surreal very surreal yes

yes the subject of this conversation is going to be the seven

Oscar nominations that Black Panther received this week, including the first ever Best Picture nomination for a movie

based on comic book superheroes.

There was also a Best Visual effects Academy Award nomination for

Avengers infinity war. I don't want to slight that in any sort of way. But mainly

we're going to talk about Black Panther and the nominations that it

received but before we get into it Paul please join me in thanking Connor

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Yes, yes, I love the discord man.

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and for more information on the different tiers that we have available

and all of the different exclusive content that we have and the different Studios News. So I'm not going to say I told you so Paul even though I did tell you so.

You did. We recorded our show. I couldn't believe it. Yeah we recorded our show last week and then after

the show we were talking about what are we going to talk about next week and I said well I'm pretty sure the Oscar nominations are going to be on Tuesday the 22nd

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