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Eddie Murphy Cracks First ‘Will Smith Slap’ Joke During His 2023 Golden Globes Speech

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During his Golden Globe Awards speech, legendary actor Eddie Murphy cracked a joke about Will Smith’s 2022 Oscars slap. Murphy originally started his speech by advising new actors with three tips for success. Recently, iconic actor and comedian Eddie Murphy joked about Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars. Eddie Murphy’s Top […]

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Tyler Perry Accepts Humanitarian Award at 2021 Oscars With Plea To Not Hate Police Officers

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Recent remarks from Tyler Perry have confused fans after announcing his refusal to hate police officers during his Academy Awards speech.

On Sunday (April 25), the Atlanta media mogul recently took home the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his work in helping others and feeding people during the pandemic, per a Fox 5 Atlanta report. 

Perry using his billion-dollar wallet to help people in their time of need has been well documented over the year. His good deeds include: leaving $21,000 in tips at an Atlanta restaurant, paying the tab for seniors shopping at 73 groceries stores, offering to pay for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks and Secoriea Turner, donating $100,000 to the legal defense fund of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend, and feeding 5,000 families during Thanksgiving last year.   

And if you recall, he also offered his home as a refuge for the displaced former royals, Harry and Megan, during their riff with their colonizing family in England.  

Anyway, In his emotional story, Perry credited his late mother’s experience growing up in the Jim Crow South for learning how “to refuse blanket judgment” in the face of hate and adversity.   

“My mother taught me to refuse hate,” the 51-year-old said on stage at the Oscars. “She taught me to refuse blanket judgment, and in this time, and with all of the Internet and social media and algorithms and everything that wants us to think a certain way, the 24-hour news cycle, it is my hope that all of us, we teach our kids and I want to remember, just refuse hate.”

His plea for peace is a response to the nation’s increase in police shootings, hate crimes, and coronavirus deaths over the past year. However, his compassionate campaign for unity with people of different races and orientations randomly extended to law enforcement, which lost traction with supporters as they continued to watch the show. 

“Don’t hate anybody. I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are Black or white or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian.”

Did he forget that less than a week ago, the nation watched the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as he was found guilty on all charges for the murder of George Floyd?  How does one find peace with the organizations responsible for the tragic deaths of teenagers Ma’Khia Bryant and Adam Toledo within weeks of each other?  Make it make sense.

Moving on. Perry ended by dedicating his award to “anyone who wants to stand in the middle,” noting the space as a healing ground for those seeking peace and change.

“I would hope that we would refuse hate and I want to take this Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and dedicate it to anyone who wants to stand in the middle, no matter what’s around the wall. Stand in the middle ’cause that’s where healing happens. That’s where conversation happens. That’s where change happens. It happens in the middle. So, anyone who wants to meet me in the middle, to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment, and to help lift someone’s feet off the ground, this one is for you too.”

No offense, but the energy isn’t going anywhere as long police officers keep murdering people instead of using their botched training to deescalate problems in communities whenever they arrive on the scene. 

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HHW Gaming: The Video Game Industry Found Its Way Into The Oscars Thanks To Huge Win

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Unfortunately, The Academy has yet to acknowledge video games as a medium worthy of an Oscar, but the video game industry might have just found its way in.

Some video games are basically like films. Both have scripts, great stories, with amazing actors and actresses bringing characters to life. The only difference is you can directly interact with one, while viewers can only observe movies. That’s not enough to win a coveted Oscar award…yet, but video games did find a way to be recognized on Hollywood’s biggest night.

Sunday night (Apr.25), during The Oscars, the documentary short Colette won an Academy Award, a huge first for the video game industry. The doc was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA’s Respawn Entertainment and was featured in the first-person shooter VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. The game is widely recognized for its historical accuracy, and keeping with that theme, players can unlock short “Gallery” films highlighting real World War II vets as they progress through the game.

Colette, which is directed by Anthony Giacchino, which is one of those “Gallery” films, tells the story of 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine, one of the last surviving French Resistance members. In the film, she is convinced by a young history student, Lucie Fouble, to return to Germany after vowing never to return to the country. Once there, she visits the Nazi concentration camp where her brother, Jean-Pierre, was sadly killed.

It was acquired and distributed by The Guardian and won the award for best short film at the Big Sky Festival, which made it eligible for Oscar contention. The film went on to win the gold statuette, not only making it the first Oscar-related video game win but a first for The Guardian as well.

In a statement speaking on the historical win, Oculus Studios director of production Mike Doran said in a statement, “The real hero here is Colette herself, who has shared her story with integrity and strength.” He further added,  “As we see in the film, resistance takes courage, but facing one’s past may take even more. Allowing us to preserve this pilgrimage for future generations was a true act of bravery and trust.”

A huge win for the video game industry.

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#Oscars: The Full Academy Awards Winners List, Snubs On Deck As Well

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The 93rd Academy Awards have concluded and the winners, losers, and snubs are at the top of the discussion on Monday (April 26). While award ceremonies are always heavily debated, this year’s event landed mostly where it should have according to most.

Like other ceremonies that have taken place during the age of COVID-19, the Oscars did their best to keep things socially distanced and safe for the attendees. Much has already been said regarding Glenn Close’s Go-Go viral moment, and Daniel Kaluuya’s awkward acceptance speech is getting a lot of burn on various airwaves.

One moment that more than a few onlookers had some issues with was the late Chadwick Boseman not winning the Best Actor award for his final role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7 was also seen as a snub for some folks despite the film winning the SAG Ensemble Award and deservingly so.

Regina King, who opened the ceremony in epic fashion while referencing Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict, her directorial debut One Night In Miami didn’t win for its adapted screenplay, supporting actor, and best song nominations which was a miss by some.

History was made this night with Chloé Zhao becoming the first woman of color and just the second woman period to win Best Director for Nomadland. Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson become the first Black-led team to win the Best Makeup and Hairstyling award.

The full list of winners is listed out below.

Best Original Screenplay
Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, and Kenny Lucas)
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)
WINNER: Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
Sound of Metal (Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder, and Darius Marder)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja, and Dan Swimer)
WINNER: The Father (Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)
The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)

Best International Feature Film
WINNER: Another Round
Better Days
Collective
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Quo Vadis, Aida?

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7
WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami
Paul Raci, Sound of Metal
LaKeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Emma (Marese Langan, Laura Allen, and Claudia Stolze)
Hillbilly Elegy (Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, and Matthew Mungle)
WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, and Jamika Wilson)
Mank (Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams, and Colleen LaBaff)
Pinocchio (Mark Coulier, Dalia Colli, and Francesco Pegoretti)

Best Costume Design
Emma (Alexandra Byrne)
WINNER: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Ann Roth)
Mank (Trish Summerville)
Mulan (Bina Daigeler
Pinocchio (Massimo Cantini Parrini)

Best Directing
Thomas Vinterberg, Another Round
David Fincher, Mank
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
WINNER: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman

Best Sound
Greyhound (Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman)
Mank (Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin)
News of the World (Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett)
Soul (Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker)
WINNER: Sound of Metal (Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh)

Best Live-Action Short Film
Feeling Through
The Letter Room
The Present
WINNER: Two Distant Strangers
White Eye

Best Animated Short Film
Burrow
Genius Loci
WINNER: If Anything Happens I Love You
Opera
Yes-People

Best Animated Feature Film
Onward
Over the Moon
A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
WINNER: Soul
Wolfwalkers

Best Documentary Short Subject
WINNER: Colette
A Concerto Is a Conversation
Do Not Split
Hunger Ward
A Love Song for Latasha

Best Documentary Feature
Collective
Crip Camp
The Mole Agent
WINNER: My Octopus Teacher
Time

Best Visual Effects
Love and Monsters (Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt, and Brian Cox)
The Midnight Sky (Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon, and David Watkins)
Mulan (Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury, and Steve Ingram)
The One and Only Ivan (Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones, and Santiago Colomo Martinez)
WINNER: Tenet (Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy
Olivia Colman, The Father
Amanda Seyfried, Mank
WINNER: Yuh-Jung Youn, Minari

Best Production Design
The Father (Peter Francis, production design; Cathy Featherstone, set decoration)
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Mark Ricker, production design; Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton, set decoration)
WINNER: Mank (Donald Graham Burt, production design; Jan Pascale, set decoration)
News of the World (David Crank, production design; Elizabeth Keenan, set decoration)
Tenet (Nathan Crowley, production design; Kathy Lucas, set decoration)

Best Cinematography
Judas and the Black Messiah (Sean Bobbitt)
WINNER: Mank (Erik Messerschmidt)
News of the World (Dariusz Wolski)
Nomadland (Joshua James Richards)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Phedon Papamichael)

Best Film Editing
The Father (Yorgos Lamprinos)
Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)
Promising Young Woman (Frédéric Thoraval)
WINNER: Sound of Metal (Mikkel E.G. Nielsen)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Alan Baumgarten)

Best Original Score
Da 5 Bloods (Terence Blanchard)
Mank (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Minari (Emile Mosseri)
News of the World (James Newton Howard)
WINNER: Soul (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste)

Best Original Song
WINNER: “Fight for You,” Judas and the Black Messiah
“Hear My Voice,” The Trial of the Chicago 7
“Husavik,” Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
“Io Si (Seen),” The Life Ahead”
Speak Now,” One Night in Miami

Best Picture
The Father
Judas and the Black Messiah
Mank
Minari
WINNER: Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Sound of Metal
The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Andra Day, United States vs. Billie Holiday
Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
WINNER: Frances McDormand, Nomadland
Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
Steven Yeun, Minari
Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
WINNER: Anthony Hopkins, The Father
Gary Oldman, Mank

(The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was given to both Tyler Perry and the Motion Picture & Television Fund.)

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‘Hair Love’ Wins Best Animated Short Film Oscar, Matthew A. Cherry Dedicated Award To Kobe Bryant

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Film director and screenwriter Matthew A. Cherry dared to dream big after his NFL career didn’t pan out and can now call himself an Academy Award winner. The animated short film Hair Love, which Cherry wrote and co-directed and produced, won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and Cherry dedicated the win to the late Kobe Bryant.

Hair Love, which was co-produced by Karen Rupert Toliver, was also directed by Everett Downing and Bruce W. Smith and features the tale of a Black father trying to style his young daughter’s hair. Voiced by Issa Rae, the film’s budget was seeded by a Kickstarter campaign that began in 2017 and far surpassed its $75,000 goal and made over $300,000.

Cherry, 38, took to the stage and shouted out Bryant after first explaining, just as Toliver did, that the film was a necessary entry in the space due to the lack of Black representation in mainstream cartoons and also the normalizing of Black hair.

“This award is dedicated to Kobe Bryant,” Cherry said. “May we all have a second act as great as his was.”

Cherry also gave a nod to DeAndre Arnold, a Texas high school student who was told by high school officials that he wouldn’t be able to walk with his class unless he cut his dreadlocked hair. Arnold was in attendance at the Oscars for the moment of a lifetime. Cherry then made mention of the CROWN Act, a law that was recently passed in a county of Maryland that forbids employers to discriminate against natural hairstyles.

Watch the Hair Love acceptance speech below.

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Blac Chyna Roasted Ferociously Over Her Oscar Awards Red Carpet Fit

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Blac Chyna has found innovative ways to keep herself aligned with the struggle, and her latest dip in the pool has Twitter piling on the jokes. The social media star made an appearance on the red carpet that the Oscar Awards and her outfit has many firing off joke after joke.

Chyna, born Angela White, was at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday (Feb. 9) surrounded by several stars from the film and television world. Chyna, 31, arrived at the event in a blue and Black dress that featured a plunging neckline and a waist-high slit which showed a lot of legs. Chyna’s hair was cropped short and styled into finger waves and also sported some simple Black heels.

It was the starlet’s first time at the Oscars and was something of a curiosity for many since she isn’t known as an actress nor has a film in the works. At any rate, Chyna’s appearance sparked fans on Twitter to come with the slander and we’ve collected some of those reactions below.

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Beyoncé and Pharrell Snubbed By The Oscars

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Award shows can always be an exciting time for those who create over the year and are looking to be honored. Especially if you are nominated to win at the 2020 Oscars, but that excitement may fade away when things don’t go as planned. For artists, Beyoncé and Pharell, they may not be too fond of the nomination list for the February ceremony.

Back in December, the two were on the Oscars shortlist for potential nominees but their names were nowhere to be found on the final list just dropped by the award show, this past Monday. When the Oscars shared their shortlist for the nominees of the “Best Original Song” category, both Beyoncé and Pharell made the cut. Beyoncé was nominated for her song, “Spirit” from The Lion King and Pharrell and Chad Hugo were nominated for their song “Letter to my Godfather” from The Black Godfather.

The singers that remain in the category will be Elton John and Bernie Taupin, Diane Warren, Randy Newman, Idina Menzel, and Cynthia Erivo.

Insecure actress, Issa Rae also seemed to be disappointed in the list of nominees. She announced the nominees on the official Livestream of the Academy and said: “Congratulations to those men” possibly throwing shade at the fact that women were absent from the “Best Director” category. 

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Lupita Nyong’o Snubbed In Oscar Nominations, Twitter Points Out Other Omissions

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April Reign’s #OscarsSoWhite hashtag should be especially relevant for the upcoming 92nd Academy Awards ceremony, and the snubbing of actors and actresses of color appears to be rampant yet again. Fans on Twitter are livid after Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o was passed over despite her scene-stealing role in Jordan Peele’s Us.

Many on Twitter believe that Nyong’o essentially playing the role of two characters to great effect, in a chilling horror film no less, should have merited an acknowledgment from the Academy. But there were other omissions that Twitter found glaring, including Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers, and Awkwafina in The Farewell. Fans also noted that Netflix’s Eddie Murphy-led vehicle, Dolemite Is My Name, also didn’t make that cut nor did any women directors get a nod, which got a reply from Issa Rae in her typically clever fashion after she and John Cho announced the nominees via US Weekly.

Fans are also a little taken aback that Scarlett Johansson received not one, but two nominations for her roles in Marriage Story and JoJo Rabbit, while Charlize Theron got a nod for Bombshell. There were some splashes of good news and diversity with Matthew A. Cherry and Karen Rupert Toliver’s Hair Love getting a nomination for the Animated Short Film award. The standalone Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix dominated the nominations list in a number of categories.

But the prevailing sense on Twitter is that Nyong’o, who won her lone Academy Award for her role in 12 Years A Slave, adds to a growing thought that the Academy only nominates or awards Black actors playing roles of slaves or criminals, citing Denzel Washington’s win for Training Day.

Check out the reactions below.

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Ashley Graham Insists Jason Momoa Do “Haka Moves” At The Oscars, Twitter (& Lisa Bonet) Nauseated

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Lisa Bonet wasn’t here for it when Ashley Graham insisted Jason Momoa do some “Haka moves” on the 2019 Oscars red carpet. Unfortunately for the model, Twitter noticed Bonet’s disgust and took issue with Graham and her tasteless request too.

So what did the internet have to say?

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Oscars Not So White: The Blackest Moments From The 2019 Academy Awards

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Last night’s (Feb. 24) Academy Awards, for the most part, wasn’t as white as previous years. There were plenty of Black joy moments thanks to Spike Lee, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Regina King and Mahershala Ali all taking home Oscars.

Typically when it comes to the Academy Awards, there isn’t much for us Black folks to cheer about due to Black Hollywood rarely getting the recognition it deserves. But this year was entirely different despite the White savior trope Greenbook taking home the big award for the night denying Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman the glory they both deserved cause they were honestly better films.

Anyway, we finally saw Spike Lee get his first Oscar (still crazy we are saying that) while rocking a gold pair of Air Jordans and act accordingly after doing so. Witnessed a comic book film with a predominantly Black cast win three awards with two black women Ruth Carter and Hannah Beacher bringing home the gold. Rejoice as Regina King get the recognition she so deserved for her brilliant performance in If Beale Street Could Talk and Mahershala become the first actor to win two Oscars for Best Supporting Actor with his exceptional portrayal as Dr. Don Shirly in the Greenbook.

If you happened to miss the many Black moments that happened last night don’t worry we compiled all of them in the gallery below for you.

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