them around backwards and you buckle in the car seats. that means you have to buy another seat, and it s no longer free for the baby. you have to pay for the other seat. yeah. we also know adam sandler from his work on saturday night live, his comedy classics like the water boy , and happy gilmore. there is no way that you could have been as bad at hockey as you are at golf. let s go. you like that old man? you want a piece of me? i don t want a piece of you. i want the whole thing. of course everyone watched that. there are also his block busters, grownups, big daddy yts, last night, adam sandler, better known as the sandman received recognition for his prolific career that has stretched over three decades. he was awarded the kennedy center s mark twain prize for american humor. i was lucky enough to be there for the laughs and the tributes
they want live programing and awards shows are live programing. reporter: a grammy ratings boost this year offers hope for other shows, especially with familiar block busters getting nominated. from elvis he was always about uniting different kinds of people, different age groups, bringing the difference together. reporter: and top gun: maverick. how does it feel like to be in a movie that single-handedly brought people back to the theater, jay ellis? you know, you re welcome. reporter: everything everywhere all at once was a box office success. what s happening? reporter: the cast is nominated for a sag award, as is michelle yeoh who plays an aging immigrant who visits the alternate lives she could have led. sometimes people get overwhelm and sidelined. he is someone that you look at and say come on, you can do this. reporter: the s.a.g. awards will be the last time fans can vote for viola davis in the woman king. she is one of the stars edged out of an o
the will smith slap it is a reversal, you re going back to something tried and true. you see that even in the movies that are nominated. there s not as much diversity as we would like. top gun, avatar, black panther. block busters, true, but we want angela bassett, will the queen finally get her due? it s angela bassett and viola davis. these are african american women whose names we are familiar with and it doesn t seem that the academy stretched itself really. it s still a lot of the same. there is a bio pic with austin butler in elvis, there is a come back with brendan frazier and the whale. it s basically paint by numbers again. i m looking at these. it used to be like in the old days, back in my day, the people who were nominated and the films you would know every single one of them. absolutely. i know top gun, elvis i
kind of know, avatar obviously i know, but everything everywhere all at once. that is michelle yeoh. it is a fantastic concept and it s a concept of a film, but movies used to entertain us and take us to a different place and really with these block busters finally the academy is saying the entertainment factor of a movie counts. like top gun. like top gun, avatar. these are huge movies with huge box office and that if you are a fan of the movies, that s what you want to see. you want there could be what you like as well as the art house flicks. so they opened it up, it used to be four or five and now i m like, wow, this is a ton of films. let s think of that for a moment. they open it up for way more movies and we still don t get the diversity in film. the same directors that we ve heard for decades, spielberg,
out stronger in the end? absolutely. you know, change takes time, and sometimes it takes a crisis to start change. so pamela, among the changes that hollywood foreign press has made, in recent months they ve added 103 new voters and touting now that they are 52% female in their voting body, so it will be interesting to see if the tone of the night is different and if this is addressed by the host that everyone is so excited to see take the stage, gerard car michael and we haven t heard much of anything leading up to tuesday s ceremony. let s talk about the awards themselves. what are you excited about? okay. avatar top gun, some of the year s biggest block busters are nominated an i think that is a really big deal. i was talking to the hfpa