Marvel Studios scored its first Oscar nomination for BLACK PANTHER in the coveted category of best picture.

The superhero hit was nominated alongside “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “Roma,” “A Star Is Born” and “Vice,” the Motion Picture Academy announced Tuesday morning.

The Wakanda-set blockbuster was also nominated for costume design, sound mixing, sound editing, original score, original song and production design.

Directed by Ryan Coogler, the billion-dollar-grossing “Black Panther” starred Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K. Brown and Winston Duke.

Its phenomenal success is believed to be one of the reasons that the academy momentarily created a “popular film” prize, as the group might have preemptively panicked over the possibility that “Black Panther” might be shut out of the best picture race.