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  • Emilia Perez (starring Selena Gomez) lauded in Hollywood but criticized in Mexico

    01/27/2025 5:03:59 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 14 replies
    Buenos Aires Times ^ | Jan 24, 2025
    Despite its huge international success, including a leading 13 Oscar nominations, Emilia Pérez faces criticism in Mexico, where the transgender narco-musical has been accused of trivialising raging drug-related violence. The film stars Karla Sofía Gascón as a bloodthirsty narco who, after transitioning to life as a woman, helps relatives of the missing. The movie also features "Avatar" star Zoe Saldaña, singer-actress Selena Gomez and Mexican actress Adriana Paz. Gascón became the first openly trans acting Oscar nominee, in the best actress category, while Saldaña was nominated for best supporting actress. "The film trivialises the problem of the missing in Mexico,"...
  • Hollywood Nominates a Dude for 'Best Actress'

    01/23/2025 8:09:06 PM PST · by bitt · 53 replies
    https://pjmedia.com/ ^ | 1/23/2025 | sarah anderson
    Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Sandra Bullock, Viola Davis, Helen Mirren... Carlos Gascon? Even though one of these things is not like the other, they all have something in common: They've been nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Actress." Look, I couldn't care less about the Oscars, and I'm sure most of you agree. Hollywood has long proven that it is out of touch with reality and out of touch with the rest of the country. But as a woman — an actual biological woman in case we have any confused liberals lurking around — I'm so sick of...
  • 2025 Oscar nominations: 'Emilia Pérez' leads with 13 nods, followed by 'The Brutalist' and 'Wicked' with 10. See the full list.

    01/23/2025 8:09:39 AM PST · by Red Badger · 47 replies
    Yahoo! - Entertainment ^ | January 23, 2025 | Suzy Byrne
    The Oscar nominations are here. Despite the debate over whether the big show should go on amid the devastation in Los Angeles from the wildfires, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pressed ahead and the Academy Award nominees for 2025 were announced on Jan. 23. [SNIP] Rachel Sennott (Saturday Night, Shiva Baby) and Bowen Yang (Wicked, Saturday Night Live) helmed the early morning nominations ceremony at the academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater and announced the 23 categories. The presentation was livestreamed on Oscar.com, Oscars.org and the academy’s social media accounts, and aired on ABC’s Good Morning America. Emilia Pérez...
  • Oscars 2025 See the full list of nominees (fat unattractive man nominated as Best Actress)

    01/23/2025 7:56:19 AM PST · by CaptainK · 40 replies
    CNN ^ | 1/23/25 | Sandra Gonzalez
    CNN — The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday and it was a big morning for “Emilia Pérez,” “The Brutalist” and “Wicked.” After acknowledgement of the impact of ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles by Academy leadership, Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees for the film industry’s top prize, previewing the race that will play out in the weeks to come, culminating at the March ceremony.
  • Joaquin Phoenix, 150 Hollywood Jewish creatives defend Oscar winner's speech condemning Israel

    04/08/2024 3:46:56 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 35 replies
    Fox News ^ | 4/4/24
    The open letter denounced those who wrote in objection to director Jonathan Glazer's moral equivalence between the Jewish State and Hamas Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Debra Winger, Chloe Fineman and nearly 150 other Jewish Hollywood creatives signed a letter Friday defending filmmaker Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech last month that critics saw as equating Israel with the Nazis and Hamas. The open letter accused Glazer’s critics of suppressing speech within Hollywood, stating, "The attacks on Glazer also have a silencing effect on our industry, contributing to a broader climate of suppression of free speech and dissent, the very qualities our field...
  • Hooray for Hollywood

    03/31/2024 11:19:44 AM PDT · by Twotone · 7 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | March 10, 2024 | Mark Steyn
    "Hooray for Hollywood" is the name of the song, not my general disposition toward that industry in its contemporary incarnation. For almost the more than two-decade history of this website, we have marked Oscar Night by celebrating an Oscar-winning song from the last nine decades, even though the Best Original Song category was one of the first to start running on fumes. Now the whole show is. I wasn't even aware tonight was Oscar Night until it was pointed out to me, and I would wager that general lack of interest will be confirmed by the ratings: it's a long...
  • 'Hell yes': A thousand Hollywood creatives sign letter to Jonathan Glazer after horrible Oscars speech

    03/21/2024 6:11:06 AM PDT · by NetAddicted · 7 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 3/20/2024 | Amy Curtis
    Early last week, we told you about Hollywood director Jonathan Glazer, and his awful, bitterly ironic Oscars acceptance speech. He was soundly, and justifiably, criticized for it at the time, and now an open letter signed by hundreds of Hollywood professionals is taking Glazer to task for what he said. More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech. https://t.co/nA5zDAk9N0 — Variety (@Variety) March 18, 2024 More from Variety: More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s...
  • Bill Maher Fires CAA After Oscar Party Snub (Exclusive)

    03/15/2024 4:56:29 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 36 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | MARCH 15, 2024 | Kim Masters, Lesley Goldberg
    Sources say the ‘Real Time’ host was furious after he wasn’t invited to Bryan Lourd’s Academy Awards bash.Sources say the host of HBO’s Real Time fired CAA, his reps for more than two decades, on Monday after he was not invited to CEO Bryan Lourd’s private Oscar party at his home on Saturday night. Maher, according to sources, was furious that he was snubbed for the event — which was scheduled opposite the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Night Before bash. The party at Lourd’s home drew the likes of J.J. Abrams, Barry Diller, Kamala Harris, Margot Robbie, Bob Iger,...
  • That Bloody Anti-Jewish Genocidal 'Red Hand': Nazi-Arab Farhoud Pogrom 1941 Or 2000 Ramallah Lynching

    03/15/2024 9:21:36 AM PDT · by Freeleesy · 3 replies
    THAT BLOODY ANTI-JEWISH GENOCIDAL 'RED HAND': NAZI-ARAB FAHOUD POGROM 1941 OR 2000 RAMALAH LYNCHING * Noted Those who wore red pins—which bear an eerie resemblance to the bloody hands of a Palestinian Arab who had participated in the lynching of two Israelis at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000 in an iconic photograph of that awful moment—in support of an immediate ceasefire, was doing at the Oscars this year* And: Bloody hands, bloody fools. That symbol the Hollywood glitterati sported is rooted in the horrific lynching of two Israeli men by a Palestinian mob..* Oct 7 'reliving the...
  • Pro-Israel ‘Zone of Interest’ Producer Len Blavatnik Did Not Sign Off on Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars Statement (Exclusive)

    03/13/2024 9:37:05 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    The Hollywood Reporter ^ | MARCH 13, 2024 | Jordan Hoffman
    "He didn't clear the speech," says a spokesperson for the billionaire, who stood behind the director on stage as he made his controversial comments.As Oscar night fades in the rearview, arguments over who got robbed and who had the nicest dress continue to recede. One story, however, continues to rage on — a backlash (and backlash to the backlash) to the acceptance speech given by Jonathan Glazer alongside producers James Wilson and Len Blavatnik when The Zone of Interest won for best international film. THR has learned that that, even though Glazer claimed to speak for all three of them,...
  • You’ll Be Shocked at the True Meaning of the Pin Worn by Billie Eilish and Mark Ruffalo

    03/12/2024 5:36:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 42 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 12, 2024
    Back in 2000, two Jewish IDF reservists mistakenly drove through Ramallah and were detained by Palestinian police — and then brutally murdered in their jail cell by a crowd of savage, blood-hungry thugs, one of whom showed his bloodied hand in a now-infamous photo. That is, like so much of American “advocacy” for Palestinians, the pins are a wink-wink, nudge-nudge endorsement of violent terror against Jews. It’s no coincidence that these stars are hard leftoids: Institutional antisemitism is now part of the American left’s core DNA. Ruffalo is an empty-brained Sanders fanatic, despite being a millionaire many times over himself:...
  • Dying Oscar Telecast Bombs with 4th Lowest Ratings in History

    03/12/2024 6:13:54 AM PDT · by Bon of Babble · 50 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 3/12/2024 | JOHN NOLTE
    With only 19.5 million viewers, Sunday night’s Academy Awards bombed with the fourth-lowest viewership in Oscar history.
  • Mia Khalifa Oscars Comment Goes Viral

    03/11/2024 8:19:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 22 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 11, 2024 | Mar 11, 2024
    Mia Khalifa weighed in on the anti-war messaging at Sunday night's 96th Academy Awards, specifically regarding the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. The former adult film star has been a vocal supporter of Palestinians and critic of Israel amid the war in Gaza. The latest round of bloodshed erupted on October 7, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages back to Gaza. Israel's subsequent airstrikes and invasion have killed about 30,000 Palestinians in the territory, many of them women and children, according to Reuters, citing Gaza's Health ministry. With the conflict...
  • Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech Sparks Jewish Fury: 'Betrayed His People'

    03/11/2024 7:45:12 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 25 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Mar 11, 2024
    While accepting his award for Best International Film for The Zone of Interest at the Oscars on Sunday, director Jonathan Glazer spoke about the ongoing attack on Gaza, and not everyone was impressed. Glazer's film follows the life of a Nazi commandant whose house is just outside Auschwitz concentration camp. During his speech, Glazer addressed the Israel-Hamas war. SNIP Glazer took to the stage with producer James Wilson, both of whom are Jewish, and said: "Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for...
  • What the red hands on the ceasefire pins mean to many of us who love Israel

    03/11/2024 2:15:31 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 13 replies
    Let’s talk about the red hands on the Oscar pins and why it’s a fraught and painful issue for many of us who care about Israel: You didn’t know me then, but back in 2000, I was a freshman at UC Berkeley when things got crazy in Israel when the Second Intifada erupted. I will never forget the first time it hit me hard – I had just finished taking an anthro 1 quiz. I was drinking a green tea boba tea. And I was reading CNN online when I saw the story about the lynching in Ramallah. Two Israelis,...
  • Jimmy Kimmel Says He Was Told Not to Read Trump’s Oscars Criticism

    03/11/2024 1:37:50 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 32 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/11/2024 | David Ng
    Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel said he was told not to read former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post during Sunday’s live ABC telecast. Speaking to Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos for their post-Oscars coverage, Kimmel said some people advised him against reading Trump’s post in which the former president dissed both Kimmel and the Oscars. “They’re like, ‘You’ve got a little bit of time’ and I was like, ‘I’m reading the Trump tweet,’ and they’re like, ‘No, no, don’t read that,’” Kimmel said, adding that he didn’t heed their orders. “‘Yes I am.’” Kimmel didn’t elaborate on who gave...
  • Anti-Israel Demonstration Causes Chaos Outside Oscars, Slightly Delays Broadcast

    03/11/2024 12:50:48 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 10, 2024 | David Propper
    A pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the Oscars ceremony caused chaos on Sunday evening as the broadcast of Hollywood’s biggest night was reportedly delayed because of unruly protesters. Attendees were briefly prevented from reaching the awards ceremony taking place inside the Dolby Theatre, causing the show to be pushed back by a few minutes, the Los Angeles Times reported. Some of the demonstrators shouted “shame” at guests as they joined the start of the 96th Academy Awards. The star-studded event didn’t take off until six minutes past 4 p.m. local time. Red carpet coverage ran longer than scheduled and then a commercial...
  • Oscars 2024: Hollywood Celebrities Laugh Maniacally as Host Jimmy Kimmel Roasts MAGA

    03/11/2024 6:05:29 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/10/2024 | David Ng
    Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel waited to the very end of the Oscars broadcast on Sunday to take aim at former President Donald Trump and the MAGA base. “Isn’t it past your jail time?” Kimmel said, sending the celebrity audience into paroxysms of maniacal laughter and enthusiastic applause. Just before the final award of the evening, Jimmy Kimmel read aloud a Truth Social post that Trump published during the broadcast in which the former president mocked Kimmel’s hosting abilities while also noteing the Oscars’ poor ratings in recent years. “Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at...
  • Jimmy Kimmel Stops the Oscars to Fire Back at Donald Trump, Who Slammed the Show as ‘Boring’: ‘Isn’t It Past Your Jail Time?’

    03/10/2024 7:52:33 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 112 replies
    Variety ^ | 3/10/24 | Zach Sharf
    Jimmy Kimmel took a moment during the Oscars telecast right before Al Pacino took the stage to present best picture to “Oppenheimer” to read aloud Donald Trump‘s latest social media post that bashed Kimmel as this year’s Oscars host. “Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump asked his followers. “His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos. He...
  • Academy Awards 2024 (Live Thread)

    03/10/2024 4:32:45 PM PDT · by L.A.Justice · 104 replies
    ABC 7 L.A. ^ | 03/10/24 | self
    Academy Awards show...On the air... I am waiting to find out if Oppenheimer will win the best picture... The black lady in THE HOLDOVERS just won best supporting actress award...It was a good movie...