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LOS ANGELES - Villainous roles snatched the supporting-acting prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards: "Precious" co-star Mo'Nique as a contemptible mother and "Inglourious Basterds" co-star Christoph Waltz as a sociable Nazi fiend.
"I would like to thank the academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics," said Mo'Nique, who plays the heartless, abusive welfare mother of an illiterate teen (Gabourey Sidibe, a best-actress nominee in her screen debut) in the
"I want to thank Miss Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to," she said, adding thanks to Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, who signed on as executive producers to spread the word about "Precious" after it premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival.
"Precious" also won the adapted-screenplay Oscar for Geoffrey Fletcher. Source: Associated Press
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By: OOOZZZZZ on 3/08/2010 11:19AM
Up to this point, here are the African American Academy Award Oscar winners:
Hattie McDaniel - Gone With The Wind.
Sidney Portier - Lillies In The Field.
Denzel Washington - Glory & Training Day
Jamie Foxx - Ray
Forest Whitaker - The Last King Of Scotland
Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Louis Gossett Jr. - An Officer and A Gentleman
Cuba Gooding - Jerry Maguire
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Whoppi Goldberg - Ghost
Jennifer Hudson - Dream Girls
Roger Ross Williams - won the Oscar for Documentary Best Short Story for "Music By Prudence"
Mo'Nique - Precious
Prince - Won Oscar for Best Original Music Score for "Purple Rain"
Herbie Hancock - Won Oscar for Best Original Music Score for "Round Midnight"
Isaac Hayes - Won Oscar for Best Original Song for "Shaft"
Irena Cara - Won Oscar for Best Original Song for the movie "Flashdance"
Stevie Wonder - Won Oscar for Best Original Song "I Just Called To Say I Love You" for the movie "The Woman In Red"
Three 6 Mafia - Won Ocsar for Best Original Song "It's Hard Out here For A Pimp" for the movie "Hustle & Flow"
Willie D. Burton - Won two Oscars for Best Sound Mixing for the movie "Bird" and the movie "Dream Girls"
Stevie Wonder - Won Oscar for Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me" for the movie "White Knights"
Russell Williams - Won two Oscars for Best Sound Mixing for the movies "Glory" & "Dancing With Wolves"
Geoffrey Fletcher - Won Oscar for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for the movie "Precious"
James Baskett - Won a Special Oscar for for his Characterization of Uncle Remus in "Song of the South" in the year 1948.
Sidney Poitier - Academy Honorary Award, "for his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence" in the year 2002.
Quincy Jones - Academy Special Award - Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for for an individual's outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes
Also there has been 92 African Americans nominated for the Oscar in all categories since the Academy Awards began.
So it kind for hard to say that the Oscars only chooses African Americans that depicts Blacks as ignorant, primitive, illiterate, poor, dirty. lazy, criminal, abusive, unhealthy and last but not least - violent.
It just seems that the only ones that some Blacks care to remember, critize or keep the negativity going are the Oscar winners who depict certain roles (Precious & Monster's Ball) and not the ones who won for not depicting those stereotypes ("Ray" & An Officer & A Gentleman" or working their magic and outstanding talents on Oscar winning films in other areas.
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By: Corey on 3/09/2010 12:59AM
Thanks Mr. Easton for once again putting it out there like so many others have, that "Precious" is a movie about poor uneducated black people with no job skills.
WRONG!!! This movie is not about that, it is about terrible situations that may go down in ANY household if one is not rasied in a loving and caring envirnoment. This movie is not based on any race of people. When will we get this message?
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By: James N. Smith on 5/02/2010 9:43AM
True the film isn't about that, but what the film is about sadly is one of the few subjects that seems to get noticed by the academy, (or the American mainstream for that matter)when it comes to getting depictions of Black life in American on screen. It does not depict I lifestyle that I grew up experiencing. In fact I have a difficult time trying to find any films about middle class black lifestyles in the 21st century depicted in a realistic fashion. Unfortunately for young black filmmakers of this generation when they wish to break into Hollywood, oft times they don't write about everything that Blacks might like or have interests in, they resort to writing movies like Precious that they know they can sell to a white dominated Hollywood. Precious they can understand. If a Black had gone to them with a project like say, Avatar, they would have said the idea would never fly what do Blacks know about SF. I know many Blacks that could not only have penned Avatar, but probably a movie that was better. This is the reason why I am not a big fan of the movie Precious. It's past time to show another side of the "Black experience"
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