Megyn Kelly on Monday mocked the Oscars for being too woke for audiences
The former NBC host turned podcaster let rip as ratings for Sunday s ceremony dipped to an all-time low of 9.85 million viewers
It marks a 58 per cent drop compared to last year s already record-low 23.64 million viewers
The huge drop continues an overall multi-year downward trend for the Academy Awards, which were seen by more than 43 million people in 2014
The Grammys, Golden Globes and SAG Awards all experienced more than 50 per cent declines in viewership this year as well
Film fans had already derided this year s ceremony as the wokest ever after a string of virtue-signaling speeches by stars
Nomadland makes history, and Chadwick Boseman is upset at the Oscars
Colman Domingo, in pink, a star of Ma Raineys Black Bottom, arrives before the 93rd Academy Awards at Union Station in Los Angeles, April 25, 2021. Mark Terrill/Pool via The New York Times.
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.- Nomadland, Chloé Zhaos meditation on grief and the damaged American dream, won Academy Awards for best picture, director and actress at Sunday nights surreal ceremony, a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.
It was a sleepy event until the final minutes, when academy voters served up a dramatic twist ending: Anthony Hopkins, 83, won the best actor Oscar for The Father, beating out the late Chadwick Boseman (Ma Raineys Black Bottom), who was the runaway favorite going into the night, having been lauded by film organizations and critics groups for months.
Jackson State University alumna Mia Neal makes Oscars history with styling award win Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Mia Neal, a Jackson State University alumna, made history after becoming one of the first Black women to ever win the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar at the 93rd annual Academy Awards Sunday.
Neal, 41, headed the hair department and was a wig and hairstyle designer for the Netflix drama Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, which stars Viola Davis. Along with Jamika Wilson, the two became the first Black women to win the award since the category was created by the Academy in 1981.
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The pandemic has changed some things irrevocably, and some for the time being. We hope the Oscar Awards fall in the latter category. This year’s gala the 93rd year of the world’s biggest awards that recognise achievements in film was nothing like what we have witnessed in recent years. Pushed by two months from its traditional February date, the Academy Awards this year, designed by director Steven Soderbergh and his team, traded the customary Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the city’s Union Station and witnessed only nominees and presenters attending. Nominees from across t
Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson made on Oscar night. The two Hollywood makeup and hairstylists became the first Black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling for their amazing work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, along with Sergio Lopez-Rivera. Neal ran the hair department and Wilson is Viola Davis’ personal stylist. They also made history as the first Black women to be nominated in the category. Great win for these ladies and for the culture!
“I was raised by my grandfather James Holland,” said Neal in her speech, as reported in Variety. “He was an original Tuskegee Airmen, he represented the US in the first Pan Am games, he went to Argentina he met Evita, he graduated from Northwestern University at a time that they did not allow Blacks to stay on campus, so he stayed at the YMCA. And after all of his accomplishments, he went back to his hometown in hopes of becoming a teacher. But they did not hire Blacks in the school system. So I wanted to say thank you t