2016 oscars

After a week of wondering whether Jada Pinkett Smith or Will Smith would respond to Chris Rock's jabs during his Oscars monologue, Jada has finally broken her silence.

Whether Will Smith has any ill will toward Chris Rock or not regarding his comments on Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith is still a mystery. What can be said is that Smith is practicing his right to remain silent. Upon spotting the rapper-actor when he left a restaurant in New York City, TMZ questioned Smith […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t blame the effort to promote an Oscars boycott among blacks because of diversity concerns for the drop in Academy Awards viewership this year. The Nielsen company said Tuesday that an estimated 3.22 million black viewers watched the Oscars on ABC Sunday, a decline of 2 percent from the 2015 show. […]

Chris Rock’s time as host of the 88th Academy Awards drew different reactions all over, but Tyrese Gibson’s reaction to the funnyman’s monologue was anything but mixed. The singer-actor was clearly not a fan of Rock taking aim at Jada Pinkett Smith during his scathing commentary on Hollywood’s lack of diversity on Sunday night. Pinkett […]

  02/29/16 – Tom and the crew open the show talking about the 2016 Oscars. Like BlackAmericaWeb.com on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.

The 2016 Oscars may be centered around a lack of diversity and hopefully Leonardo DiCaprio's first win, but we can't forget about the music.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton has announced plans to stage a rally on Sunday prior to the Oscars to protest a lack of diversity in Hollywood. The rally, announced Thursday, also is intended to support a push for a nationwide TV tune-out of the Academy Awards ceremony. Critics say the awards show, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Movies make more money when exactly half their casts are non-white, according to an annual analysis released Thursday that shows an increasing demand for diversity in film. In previous years, movies did better at the box office if two or three of the top eight billed actors were non-white. The latest […]

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Guests at the first American Black Film Festival Honors are ready for Chris Rock to shake up the Oscars. Don Cheadle, Ice Cube, Adina Porter and Michelle Mitchenor are among the entertainers eager to hear the comedian’s take on Hollywood’s diversity crisis when he hosts Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I think […]

LONDON (AP) — Academy Award-nominated British actress Charlotte Rampling has entered the debate over a lack of diversity at the Oscars, saying the calls for a boycott are “racist to white people.” All this year’s acting nominees are white. Rampling, 69, told France’s Europe 1 radio Friday that, while it’s impossible to know for sure, […]

Whoopi Goldberg says she’s not going to boycott the 2016 Academy Awards because of the lack of diversity, but she will “continue to bitch as I have all year round because I’m tired of seeing movies where no one is represented except a bit of the population, not all of it,” she told her “The […]