Tyler Perry, ‘Ma Rainey’ Oscars mention Alabama history in powerful speeches
Updated 8:01 AM;
Oscar winners brought Alabama to the ceremony Sunday night, with Tyler Perry and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hairstylist Mia Neal referenced the state’s history during powerful acceptance speeches in Los Angeles.
Perry received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award “for his active engagement with philanthropy and charitable endeavors in recent years, including efforts to address homelessness and economic difficulties faced by members of the African-American community.”
Viola Davis, a nominee for playing Ma Rainey, presented Perry with the award. During his speech, he recalled an encounter with a woman who asked him for a pair of shoes, which he said reminded him of his own mother and experiences with homelessness.
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Robert, a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet.
Sylvie, who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same. Writer/director Eugene Ashe
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