British actor Daniel Kaluuya was up against LaKeith Stanfield, his co-star in director Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah — the former for his turn as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, and the latter as William O’Neal, who became a Panther informant for the …
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On Friday, Sacha Baron Cohen participated in Netflix‘s Chicago 7 Town Hall: Voices for Change, a virtual town hall event centered around discussing the Chicago 7 activists and the recent feature film based on them, which Baron Cohen starred in. He’s up for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for …
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The Academy Awards plummeted to an all-time ratings low with the 2020 telecast, drawing 3 million fewer viewers than the previous bottom in 2018. Sunday’s broadcast on ABC, according to Nielsen figures, earned 23.6 million viewers — a sharp 20 percent decline from the 2019 ceremony. The show also dropped …
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After weeks of hand-wringing and Twitter-screaming, the 2019 Academy Award nominations were announced, and the results were relatively predictable – Roma! A Star is Born! The Favourite! And [weary sigh] Green Book! Naturally, this early wake-up call also held fast to one of the Oscars‘ most enduring traditions: the surprise …
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