A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Even though we are just days away from final Oscar voting, which starts for a week on February 20, talk of this year’s contenders is overshadowed by today’s debut of Black Panther, which threatens to be one of the biggest openings of all time, and even more significantly a major Oscar contender itself – for next year. I won’t be going too far out on a limb to predict right now that Marvel’s latest, and…