it is not a secret that the academy is extremely afraid not to cater to minorities since the backlash they received two years ago.
So you adopt the laziest possible approach and, without even listening to the other nominees, reflexively attribute the win to racial apology. Congratulations.
....that Black Panther was nominated for Best Movie is an utter joke (I'm a Marvel fan btw. I watch all of those movies, but I'm also not delusional). In fact the whole "cult" following this film is just ridiculous.
More ridiculous than, say, Avengers, or Ant-Man and the Wasp? Or Hulk or Guardians or Thor? And what's "ridiculous" about Black Panther? Thought Dr. Strange was more "realistic" or hewed closer to your idea of what's correct and what's not in a Marvel movie? Didn't care for the costumes or the gizmos? Found even more plot holes than usual?
It's not necessarily essential to know all the other scores,
Nice you feel absolved from actually comparing the score to others before pronouncing it unworthy.
Common sense tells me that's exactly what happened.
"Common sense" -- and utter carelessness about actually making an effort to compare the score to others. I find it telling that your initial "link" was a playlist that was replete with incorrect cues.
Before I publicly denigrate the work of someone else, I try to make a little bit of effort. Besides, with projects like this it's pretty much impossible to know whether the stuff you didn't like -- or did -- arose primarily from the composer, the director, some producer, or somebody's girlfriend/boyfriend.
I'm not saying it's the best or it's not. Why? Because I haven't listened to all of the scores. I did listen to this one and found more to like than not, and more than a little effort was obviously put in to make it different from the other scores we hear all the time.
Most of those could be transferred from any one Marvel movie to any other without the audience noticing a single thing. Not so with Black Panther's score.
I'm not holding it out to be the best, but I detest lazy attacks.