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Jeff Bezos endured some mild roasting at the 92nd annual Academy Awards. During the ceremony’s opening monologue, comedians Chris Rock and Steve Martin singled out the Amazon CEO, making a number of jokes at his obscene wealth and highly publicized divorce. “He’s got cash. When he writes a check, the bank bounce,” Rock said. “Jeff Bezos is so rich, he got […]
Adam Sandler just walked away with the Best Male Lead prize at the 2020 Spirit Awards. And his acceptance speech was very on brand. The 53-year-old actor secured the award for Uncut Gems, in which he portrayed the gambling-addicted New York jeweler Howard Ratner. Though the A24 film had generated serious awards season buzz, it was ultimately snubbed […]
It’s probably fair to assume that Adam Sandler wasn’t getting a whole lot of award show practice following the releases of Pixels, The Ridiculous 6, and, well, we’ll just leave it at “others.” But that didn’t stop Conan O’Brien from busting his balls after he botched basic award show procedure by advancing to the stage […]
It’s 2020 and the Oscars are whiter than ever. The number of black nominees for the prestigious award show has hit a three-year low, Variety reports. Just five black people were nominated for Oscars in 2020. The number was at its highest in 2017, when 18 black people were nominated. That year, a record six […]
On Wednesday night, Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho received the award at the African American Film Critics Association Awards for best foreign film (perhaps a prelude to an Oscar?), and then he used his acceptance speech to charm the crowd with an anecdote about how Spike Lee taught him to properly swear in English. That’s the magic […]
Following his long-awaited first Grammy win Sunday night, Tyler, the Creator spoke to reporters backstage about how placing IGOR “in a Rap or Urban category” represents deep-rooted issues in the institutional recognition often given to black artists. “I don’t like that ‘Urban’ word,” Tyler said. “It is just the politically correct way to say the n-word to me. So […]
Recently suspended Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan, who was the first woman to hold the title, says the voting system for the Grammys is “rigged.” In charge of discrimination documents filed with the Los Angeles district office for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Dugan alleged exactly how the Grammys voting process is “ripe [sic] […]
Following the acquisition of his SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture,” due to his performance as Joker in Joker, Joaquin Phoenix only briefly attended an after party before quickly bailing to attend a demonstration for animal rights, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Stating that […]
The nominations for the 2020 BAFTA Film Awards are in, with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ previous vow of pushing for diversity immediately called into question once everyone noticed a distinct lack of exactly that. In a press release that dropped back in June of 2018, the Academy detailed and touted the BFI Diversity […]
Joaquin Phoenix took home the award for Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture at the Golden Globes Sunday night, and he received a standing ovation. However, shortly after the awards took place, some Twitter users noticed that Beyoncé wasn’t among those standing for Phoenix, who won the award for his role as Arthur Fleck […]
