The controversial new Academy Awards category honoring “outstanding achievement in popular film" seems tailor-made for a feature like Marvel's critically acclaimed Black Panther. But much like the studio itself, star Chadwick Boseman has set his sights on the coveted Best Picture prize.

Appearing on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, Bosman explained his dissatisfaction with the possibility of the blockbuster being recognized in the "popular" category, rather than earning Hollywood's top award. "We don't know what it [the new prize] is, so I don't know whether to be happy about it or not," he said. "What I can say is that there's no campaign [that we are mounting] for popular film; like, if there's a campaign, it's for best picture, and that's all there is to it."

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"A good movie is a good movie," Boseman continued, "and clearly it doesn't matter how much money a movie makes in order for it to be 'a good movie' [in the minds of Academy members] because if [it did], the movies that get nominated and win [which have tended in recent years to not be blockbusters] wouldn't get nominated; and if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter on both sides. For my money, the only thing that matters is the level of difficulty. What we did was very difficult. We created a world, we created a culture ... we had to create a religion, a spirituality, a politics; we had to create an accent; we had to pull from different cultures to create clothing styles and hair styles. It's very much like a period piece. ... So, as far as that's concerned, I dare any movie to try to compare to the [level of] difficulty of this one. And the fact that so many people liked it — if you just say it's [merely] popular, that's elitist."

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In an era where superhero based movies are drawing in larger audiences, Boseman's words have a truth to them. While "Most Popular" may be fine, winning Best Picture award may help to comic book adaptations to be viewed in an even higher regard than they are now.