Actor Adam Goldberg has expressed disgust at Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars while also slamming the Hollywood industry at large for the way it protected Smith that night.
The Academy’s Board of Governors is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars. Smith could face disciplinary measures, and possibly expulsion, and the forfeiture of the Oscar he won on Sunday for his performance in King Richard.
Many Hollywood celebrities who aren’t normally shy about voicing their left-wing political opinions on social media are remaining conspicuously silent about actor Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock during Sunday’s Oscars ceremony.
The 94th Academy Awards were anything but a bore this year, and neither was the red carpet. In this Fashion Notes, I break down my best and worst dressed for the evening.
Actress Tiffany Haddish has offered what may be the most bizarre reaction to Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday, calling it the “most beautiful thing” she’s ever seen.
Actor Will Smith’s son Jaden Smith hit Twitter after the 94th Academy Awards that saw his father slap Chris Rock, writing, “And that’s how we do it.”
For 30 seconds, the Oscars went silent for Ukraine.
Actor Will Smith revealed in his Oscar-winning acceptance speech on Sunday that Denzel Washington gave him a word of warning after Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in face earlier in the evening.
Celebrities attending Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony will still win big, even if they don’t take home an award, as nominees will receive gift bags worth $100k, including trips to a castle in Scotland — proving yet again the hollowness of the film industry’s climate activism.
In what is sure to be the most baffling and talked about moments of Sunday’s Oscars, actor Will Smith appeared to strike presenter Chris Rock in the face on stage apparently over a joke that Rock told about Smith’s wife.
The Academy Awards wasted little time getting political on Sunday as co-host Wanda Sykes slammed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, announcing on live television that “we’re going to have a gay night.”
Hollywood stars chose to go maskless for the 94th annual Academy Awards on Sunday even as local preschoolers enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still being forced to wear masks while indoors.
After going hostless for several years, the Academy Awards have not one but three hosts to help juice the Oscars’ low ratings — but producers have baffingly tapped some of Hollywood’s most politically divisive celebrities for the job.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, one of this year’s most prominent Oscar nominees, will sit out the ceremony after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.
As inflation continues to soar, gas prices skyrocket, and the southern border crisis goes unaddressed, President Joe Biden (D) spent time this week rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars as the cast of the Oscar-nominated movie “CODA” visited the White House.
In its latest bid to boost its sinking ratings, the Academy Awards is turning in desperation to Instagram influencers in what appears like an effort to persuade younger viewers to watch ABC’s live telecast.
After years of prostrating itself before Communist China, Hollywood is now reaping the results of its Faustian bargain. China is blocking more and more Hollywood blockbusters from domestic screens, including major Marvel and Pixar titles that depend heavily on foreign audiences to break even.
Faced with collapsing ratings, ABC reportedly threatened to cancel this year’s Oscars unless the Academy took the drastic step of cutting several categories from the live telecast.
The Academy Awards is taking the unprecedented step of demoting eight categories — including film editing and original score — from its upcoming live ABC telecast on March 27 in what appears to be an attempt to reverse the show’s plummeting ratings, which hit an all-time low last year.
The upcoming Academy Awards will have a two-tier system of coronavirus restrictions by requiring nominees and guests to be vaccinated but not presenters.
The Academy Awards is aiming to lift its TV ratings out of the toilet with the introduction of a “fan favorite” award for best picture, which will be voted on by Twitter users. While the new award isn’t an official category and therefore won’t receive an Oscar statuette, the winner will be announced on ABC’s live Oscars telecast on March 27.
The Academy Awards is about to get a triple dose of left-wing wokeness as Amy Schumer is reportedly set to host this year’s Oscars ceremony along with comedian Wanda Sykes and Scary Movie star Regina Hall. Together, they have smeared Trump voters as racists, demanded the rollback of voter identification requirements, and joined forces with Michelle Obama to push vote by mail.
The Academy Awards reportedly won’t require the COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendees of the March 27 ceremony, though attendees will have to submit a negative COVID-19 test taken the day of the Oscars.
Congratulations to newly minted Oscar nominees “Denoo Vellnoove,” “Korine Hines,” and “Yooakim Treer”– or as they’re known in real life, director Denis Villeneuve, actor Ciarán Hinds, and director Joachim Trier.
The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we’ve seen in a long time.
Feb. 8 (UPI) — Netflix’s The Power of the Dog was nominated for a leading 12 Academy Awards — including Best Picture — in Los Angeles Tuesday morning.
Longtime movie critic Owen Gleiberman is afraid that the woke Oscars Awards telecast is doomed to extinction unless the Academy starts recognizing wildly popular movies, including Marvel/Disney’s assembly-line superhero flicks.
Hollywood’s annual ritual of self-congratulation is in danger of cancellation as the Los Angeles area experiences a three-fold rise in coronavirus cases due in large part to the omicron variant. Pre-Oscar events are already being canceled as the entertainment industry prepares for what could be another season of empty red carpets.
Acclaimed screenwriter and director Paul Schrader has condemned woke cancel culture, calling it “infectious” and comparing it to the coronavirus Delta variant.
Hollywood & Highland, the retail and theater complex that also serves as home to the annual Academy Awards, has reportedly removed the statues of large white elephants that have presided over the venue for two decades due to concerns that they are racist.
Actor Stephen Dorff, said “My business is becoming a big game show. You have actors that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. You have filmmakers that don’t have a clue what they’re doing. We’re all in these little boxes on these streamers. TV, film — it’s all one big clusterf**k of content now.”
Millions of Americans who have grown weary of left-wing lectures from celebrities decided against watching this year’s Academy Awards, helping to send ratings for the ABC telecast plummeting to their lowest level in modern history. Now the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC, is acknowledging the “hard impact” the disastrous broadcast has had on the company.
Billy Crystal is the latest Hollywood figure to come down hard against cancel culture and the current state of comedy. The former Oscars host also threw shade at this year’s Academy Awards telecast, which was the lowest rated in modern Oscars history.
“Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins said the infamous Oscars mix-up at the end of the 2017 ceremony has unfairly reinforced the belief that the movie won best picture only because “it was the black film.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appears to have a strange love-hate relationship with filmmaker Chloe Zhao, alternately praising her achievements and using its censorship powers to suppress all mention of her Oscar wins on Sunday. It is hard to see why the CCP would decide to erase Zhao, who has not been a strident public critic of China’s authoritarian regime.
Former president Donald Trump excoriated ABC’s telecast of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, noting the show’s record-low ratings while also urging the show to be less “politically correct and boring.”
Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.
Actor John Leguizamo found himself unhappy with the results of the 2021 Oscars ceremony, lamenting on social media that Latino artists were “excluded again.”
A Throng of those watching the telecast of the 93rd Academy Awards were outraged to see that actresses Jessica Walter and Naya Rivera, as well as musician Adam Schlesinger, were left out of the 2021 “In Memoriam” segment on Sunday.
The 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday evening brought back, at least somewhat, the red carpet after an award’s season that was crushed by little-to-no red carpets, lame socially-distanced stage settings, and unwatchable acceptance speeches over Zoom.
