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*Saturday, October 28, at 8pm, 3-time Grammy Award winner Oscar Hernandez, will be celebrating the 15th Annual Anniversary of the renowned Spanish Harlem Orchestra, at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West in the Bronx where Oscar will be sharing the bill with Cuban bandleader Elito Reve with his […]

[…] this one is actually going to cost me money,” Sykes told Kimmel, admitting she didn’t know how much she’s earning for the hosting gig.  Kimmel hosted the Oscars in 2017 and 2018 and revealed that he was paid $15,000 to host. READ MORE: Wanda Sykes Says Don’t Expect ‘Sober Wanda’ At the Oscars | VIDEO […]

[…] Best Picture award afer initially losing to ‘La La Land.’ *What da hell?! Yeah, that’s what lot of folks are saying tonight that insane ending at the Oscars and boy-oh-boy was it a whopper. As expected by most watchers, “La La Land” was initially given the Academy Award for Best Picture, but half way […]

[…] 74th annual Cannes Film Festival on July 11, 2021, in Cannes, France. (Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images) *Actor Sean Penn said he wanted to melt down his Oscars after seeing Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the 94th Academy Awards so they could be used as bullets in Ukraine. In a new interview with […]

*Spirits are still high in Tinsel Town thanks to the glitz & glamour of the Academy Awards, where one heartfelt story after another told of filmmakers whose journey to the big screen took many years and a dedicated team. It is almost unheard of for a film to get pitched and produced with a major […]

*Now that he’s got the wherewithal to do it, Jay Z is showing some muscle by deciding to put on an Oscar afterparty/soiree that Tinseltown can hardly wait for. More on that shortly. But FIRST … Normally the Oscar weekend box office isn’t expected to bring in any kind of record breaking revenue. But that […]

*Here’s the latest on the threatened 2016 Oscars boycott. According to a statement sent to EURweb from Najee Ali, Los Angeles based political director, National Action Network/NAN, the boycott threat is still on. The decision to move forward with the boycott comes on the heels of the Academy announcing  sweeping changes in the nomination procedures […]

[…] — which has so far seen Beyoncé become the most awarded artist in Grammy history and feature the most Asian nominees in a single year at the Oscars — questions about these shows’ commitment to equity persist. Many have criticized this year’s Academy Awards — which takes place Sunday — for failing to recognize […]

[…] Lee Curtis, Mary Steenburgen, Lupita Nyong’o, Rita Moreno, Regina King presents the Oscar® for Actress in a Supporting Role during the live ABC telecast of the 96th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Jimmy Kimmel returned as the host of the 96th Academy Awards. He kept the […]

[…] Awards on March 12, 2023 in Hollywood blocking view – abc *Social Heat is on one tuhday. Nigerian singer and songwriter Tems caught some flack for her Oscars gown that had blocked the view of the audience members who sat behind due to her dress’ massive headpiece. Social media weighed in and felt the […]

[…] a bit that was perhaps the evening’s most shocking moment outside of Chadwick Boseman’s Best Actor snub to end the show. When asked by comedian, actor and Oscars co-host Lil’ Rel Howery to play an Oscars-themed game of name-that-tune, Close immediately identified “Da Butt,” by Washington D.C. go-go band Experience Unlimited, even calling them […]

Will Packer *Emmy®-nominated producer Will Packer will produce the 94th Oscars®, Academy President David Rubin announced today.  It will be his first involvement with the Oscars, which will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 27, 2022. “Will is a powerhouse producer who has enjoyed success across all movie genres.  […]

 *John Legend called hosting the Oscars a “thankless job” but said he and wife Chrissy Teigen haven’t ruled out hosting the show. “I feel like it’s a thankless job. Nobody really wins from hosting the Oscars,” Legend said at the Fred Segal Loves Ralph Lauren pop-up space on Monday. “It doesn’t really end […]

[…] Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Friday, January 22 called on Kevin Mansell, President and CEO of retail giant Kohl’s  which is the official sponsor of the Oscars Telecast on ABC, February 28 to tune out the Oscars with its ad dollars. Hutchinson said in an email to Mansell ([email protected]): “Take special Note: As […]

*(CNN) — Michelle Yeoh has won best actress at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday night, becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win the award. Yeoh, who earned the trophy for her acclaimed performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” has also entered the history books for becoming the first Malaysian-born performer to […]