Chris Rock Calls
the Oscars ‘the White BET Awards’
by Kipp Jones 16 Jan 2016Los Angeles, CA
Chris Rock, the host of the upcoming 88th
Academy Awards, shared a 15-second promo on Twitter Friday,
calling the awards show “the White BET Awards.”
Alongside a video in which Rock teased three reasons why
viewers should tune in to this year’s awards show, the comedian wrote, “The
#Oscars. The White BET Awards.”
For the second year in a row,
the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced that all 20
Oscar nominations in the four main acting categories had gone to white actors.
The tag #OscarsSoWhite began trending on social media,
and many online demanded to know why black-led films like Concussion, Creed,
Beasts of No Nation, and Straight Outta Compton had been snubbed.
In a statement on
Thursday, Rev. Al Sharpton blasted the film industry for
its so-called “fraudulent image of progressive and liberal politics and
policies.”
“Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher up you
get the whiter it gets and this year’s Academy Awards will be yet another Rocky
Mountain Oscars,” Sharpton said. “Yet again, deserving Black actors and
directors were ignored by the Academy — which reinforces the fact that there
are few if any Blacks with real power in Hollywood.”
AMPAS president Cheryl Boone Isaacs said that
after last year’s controversial nominations the Academy had been working to
become more “diverse and inclusive.”
She told Deadline
on Thursday, “Of course I am disappointed, but this is not to take away the
greatness [of the films nominated]. This has been a great year in film, it
really has across the board.”
Oscars producer Reginald Hudlin also spoke out about the
issue of diversity on Thursday, telling Deadline, “I thought there was an
extraordinary amount of Oscar-worthy work by black artists and they all got
overlooked.”
Chris Rock will host the 88th Academy Awards on Feb. 8.
He perviously hosted the 77th Oscars in 2005.
Chris Rock
Chris
Rock is married to Malaak
Compton-Rock.
Note: Malaak
Compton-Rock is married to Chris
Rock, and a director at the Children's
Defense Fund.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Children's Defense Fund, and the Aspen Institute (think tank).
George
Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Daniel R.
Glickman is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, a director, Congressional Program for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a
trustee at the American Film Institute.
Cheryl Boone
Isaacs is a trustee at the American
Film Institute, and the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
Jeff
Zucker was a trustee at
the American Film Institute, and is
the president of CNN Worldwide.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of CNN.
Walter Isaacson
was the chairman & CEO for CNN,
and is the president & CEO for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
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