all right, breaking news. the oscar nominations announced just minutes ago. let s bring in cnn entertainment report er chloe melas and the host of run tell this podcast ma ma mar maria schiacampo. west side story, the musical foray, he was nominated for best director this year, it didn t do very well at the box office. he is an academy award they love steven spielberg. i also want to talk about king richard. coda is a movie i finished this morning, a movie about a young girl, the only hearing child in her family, everyone else is deaf. it is an incredible movie. it did really, really great at the film festivals. what i think is interesting
mouth. wow, dude. it was a ji jane joke. keep my wife s name out of your mouth. i m going to, okay. okay. that was greatest night in the history of television. okay, so 45 minutes after smith slapped rock, he was back on stage accepting the oscar for best actor for his role in king richard where he plays the father of venus and serena williams. and joining me now the host of run tell this, a weekly podcast presenting news and analysis and pop culture from an african american perspective. ladies, great to have you to help digest everything that happened. you have new reporting. so you mentioned the fact that about a dozen academy members, now there are over 9,000 of them, but celebrities and actors, directors, getting
CNN Newsroom hosts Victor Blackwell and Alisyn Camerota, along with a panel of assorted guests, criticized President Biden from the left on Friday in the aftermath of his Summit for Democracy. They accused him of preaching democracy to the world while not doing enough to protect democracy at home.
Blackwell kicked things off by addressing CNN political director David Chalian,