‘Black Panther’

Nominated for: best picture, costume design, original score, original song, production design, sound editing, sound mixing

How to watch: Stream it on Netflix; rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.

The first superhero movie to be nominated for best picture — for all its acclaim, even “The Dark Knight” missed the list — “Black Panther” goes further than any previous Marvel production in bringing thematic weight to escapist spectacle. Michael B. Jordan makes a particularly vivid contribution as Killmonger, a villain whose threat to T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), the newly crowned king of the techno-utopian nation of Wakanda, is rooted in competing notions of black identity.