Exclusive! EUR Covers the First Annual All Def Movie Awards (WATCH)

*With all the controversy surrounding the 2016 Oscars, the 1st Annual All Def Movie Awards couldn’t have come at a better time.

Russell Simmons, Founder of All Def everything put together the show to highlight major movies that were excluded from being recognized at the Academy Awards such as “Creed,” “Concussion,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “Chi-Raq,” “Dope” and “Beasts of No Nation.”

The event was held on Wednesday Feb. 24 in Hollywood at Lure Nightclub and hosted by Tony Rock who will be competing as his brother Chris Rock hosts the Oscars. Celebrities in attendance included Will Smith and Norman Lear who were both honored. Other public figures to hit the carpet included Ice Cube, his son O’Shea Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Nick Cannon, Affion Crockett, Michael Ealy and Gary Owen.

“Every ethnicity, the darker people in the world all over the world, are undeserved in many ways,” said Simmons. “In Hollywood in no different and so sometimes you have to get off your butt and do it yourself.”

Actor Christian Keyes told us that he also believes shows like the All Def Movie awards are important because black people have to celebrate themselves first before they expect others to.

“We need to celebrate the craft and not the color,” he said.

The Oscars weren’t the only topic of conversations this year. So was Donald Trump and the idea of him becoming president. A lot of people have said they would leave the country if he got elected, so EURweb associate Kiki Ayers hit the red carpet to find out 1. If people would really leave and 2. where they would go?

“Black people ain’t leaving the country. Black people sometimes don’t even leave their own neighborhood’s,” offered Affion Crockett.

Keyes said he would go to Europe or Canada if Trump were elected whereas Snoop Dogg said “hell no” to leaving the country. “I know that N*gga…I’m trying to get some of his money,” he added.

Fusion will air a 1-hour special spotlighting the award show at 7pm today, Sunday Feb. 28, which of course is the same day the Oscars air.