50 God-Tier Acting Moments Buried in Bad Movies

Angela Bassett's performance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever became the first performance in a Marvel film to ever receive an Oscar nomination. She eventually lost to Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All at Once, a stupid Oscar win if there ever was, but that doesn't take away from Bassett's excellent work, reprising her role as Queen Ramonda, who's now dealing with the loss of her son T'Challa (reflecting the real-life passing of actor Chadwick Boseman).

Ramonda can be a tad unlikable throughout the film, mainly because of the way she goes back on her son's promise to share Wakanda's resources with the world, and yet this is easy to forget due to how powerful Bassett's performance is. In fact, with this scene alone - in which she berates Wakandan general Okoye (Danai Gurira) for allowing Namor's troops to capture Shuri (Letitia Wright) - she fixes this problem by allowing the audience to understand Ramonda's pain. 

She mourns the loss of her entire family, and her terrible anguish reverberates through every word. The speech does feature a questionable line where she describes Wakanda as the most powerful nation on Earth, but even that sounds convincing thanks to Basset's sublime performance.

This is probably the scene that got Angela Bassett the Oscar nomination, and it's a bright spot in an otherwise bloated, self-indulgent, and thoroughly boring sequel.