Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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A lot of people argued about whether Black Panther, a comic book film, should have been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and whether politics were involved. In this video we'll talk about how Awards work in art, and an alternate way of looking at these questions and understanding who wins what.

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