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For the second time in recent months, Silicon Valley giant Apple has been the butt of the joke at an award show, this time Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi urged Tim Cook’s company to fix the notoriously bad MacBook keyboards.

Teen climate alarmist Greta Thunberg appeared in a video at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday evening highlighting the power of documentary films, explaining that documentaries about nature inspired her to take up her global warming crusade.

Actress and left-wing activist Jane Fonda wore an old gown she had in her wardrobe to this year’s 92nd Academy Awards to fight climate change.

Actress Renée Zellweger honored American military service members in her acceptance speech for Best Actress at the 92nd Academy Awards — a fierce contrast to the partisan speeches by Joaquin Phoenix and Brad Pitt at the award’s ceremony. 

Former President Barack Obama played a direct role in the hardships of the workers featured in American Factory, the Oscar-winning documentary his new production company produced.

Actresses Brie Larson, Gal Gadot, and Sigourney Weaver told the crowd of Hollywood A-listers at the 92nd Academy Awards that “all women are superheroes.” 

Actress Cynthia Erivo performed a show-stopping performance of the song “Stand Up” from the film Harriet which chronicles the story of Harriet Tubman.

Disney corporate synergy shifted into high gear at the Oscars on Sunday with a musical plug for the movie Frozen II and the Broadway stage musical based on Frozen, which is playing in cities around the world.

The Netflix film backed by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company won Best Documentary Sunday night at the Oscars.

Actor and comedian Josh Gad mocked “climate deniers” and America’s healthcare system while introducing singer Idina Menzel’s “Frozen 2” performance during the 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Veteran comedians Steve Martin and Chris Rock helped open the 92nd Academy Awards and called out the Academy from the stage, saying “vaginas” and “black nominees” were missing from the Oscars’ nomination’s lists.

Actress Natalie Portman hit the Oscars red carpet with a political statement embroidering her Dior cape with the names of women who directed films in 2019 but were not nominated for the 92nd Academy Awards.

Calling it “too graphic,” the Motion Picture Academy rejected an ad for Sunday’s Oscars telecast featuring a new mother dealing with postpartum pain in the bathroom.

Students at American University told a reporter this week that the number of white males nominated for Academy Awards is a problem. According to one student interviewed, “White men need to understand that not every thought that they have is worth saying.”

Sabo, the Los Angeles street artist, is once again trolling liberal Hollywood and its sacred cows, this time lampooning Democratic presidential candidates including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders in a spoof of the Oscar-nominated movie Parasite.

The PBS children’s show Sesame Street announced that Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor Billy Porter will be featured wearing his Oscars dress when the program returns to TV for its 51st season, set to premiere on HBO Max later this year.

Hollywood’s hypocritical gun control elites, including Rosie O’Donnell, Darryl Hannah, Amy Schumer, and others are applying pressure on studio executives to cut ties with the NRA.

Hillary Clinton said that it is “really a shame” that no women were nominated for best director for this year’s Academy Awards, adding that Greta Gerwig deserved to be nominated for her work on Little Women.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences served an entirely plant-based menu for its Oscar Nominees Luncheon on Monday, noting “We owe our global membership a commitment to supporting the planet.”

Author Stephen King wrote in a Washington Post editorial on Monday that the Academy Awards are “rigged in favor of white folks” and that the Oscars still have a lot of work to do in terms of ensuring diversity among

Actors Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan, stars of the new film Just Mercy, said given the lack of racial diversity among this year’s Academy Award nominees that their motivation to make movies isn’t to win Awards. 

Left-wing actress Bette Midler has vented her frustration with the Academy Awards by proposing to create the alternative “Osc-hers” in order to redress the absence of female nominees in this year’s directing category.

The New York Times called out the irony of TV’s left-wing late-night hosts complaining about the lack of diversity among this year’s Oscar nominees, pointing out that the hosts are also mostly white and male.

Author and Trump hater Stephen King is feeling the heat from fellow liberals following his tweets about the Academy Award nominations, in which he said that quality is more important than diversity when it comes to creating works of art.

No, the problem here is not America or Americans, it is Hollywood.

Those slights overshadowed the happier news that across all categories, a record 62 women (about a third of nominees) were nominated.

Granted, I haven’t seen Gerwig’s Little Women, and according to the Wokesters in the Fake Media, that makes me “problematic.”

American Factory, the Netflix release backed by Barack and Michelle Obama, received an Academy Award nomination in the documentary feature category, making it the first time that a movie associated with the former first couple has been up for Hollywood’s highest honor.

Los Angeles (AFP) — The Oscar nominations will Monday reveal which stars and movies have a shot at Hollywood’s ultimate prize, as the industry nervously awaits the number of women and minorities selected.

The nominees for the Academy Awards have been announced in Los Angeles.

It was once one of the most highly coveted gigs in comedy. Now no one wants the job as viewers at home are tuning out in droves.

Actor Asia Kate Dillon, star of Showtime’s “Billions,” wants to see non-gendered acting awards at the Emmys, but so far Hollywood is resisting the pressure to make categories gender neutral.

“All of a sudden, now it’s just another show because people got tired of people getting up and making fools of themselves and disrespecting the people in this room and the people that won the election in 2016,” Trump said as the room applauded.

Obviously, the Trump-bashing Tonys kept the promise to bash Trump, which only means the public has been forewarned to avoid tuning in next year.

A long battle between streaming services such as Netflix and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences came to a close this week.

Actor and comedian Kevin Hart told Joe Rogan on Saturday that efforts to censor comedy along “politically correct” lines amount to a “push to destroy,” offering his remarks on the latter’s eponymous podcast.