Trump accused the Oscar-winning African-American director of racism

Trump said he has done more for African Americans than almost any other president in US history. And director Spike Lee called during the ceremony to "mobilize" for the 2020 elections and make the right "moral choice." US President Donald Trump on his Twitter ...

'Oscar-2019': who and why received the coveted statuette

The Academy Awards were presented for the 91st time in Los Angeles, California. For the first time in 30 years, the ceremony was held without a host: comedian Kevin Hart withdrew his candidacy after finding himself at the center of a homophobic scandal; They didn’t look for a replacement. Shortly before the ceremony began, artist Plastic...

Interesting facts about the Oscar 2019, Soviet and Russian nominations and victories

The biggest night of the year is approaching: the Oscars. The 91st awards ceremony will take place in Los Angeles, California at the Dolby Theater on Sunday, February 24. The nominees were announced on January 22. In terms of the number of nominations (10 for each film), the films “Roma” by Mexican Alfonso Cuaron and “The Favorite” are in the lead...

For the first time in 30 years, the Oscar will be held without a host: who will present the statuettes

For the first time in three decades, the Oscars ceremony will be held without a main presenter. On Monday evening, a publicist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially confirmed the information. Previously it was assumed that there would still be a presenter. Actor and comedian Kevin Hart was...

Comedian Kevin Hart refuses to host the 2019 Oscars over seven-year-old tweets

Just two days after I agreed. On December 7, comedian and actor Kevin Hart refused to host the 2019 Academy Awards. According to him, the reason is the accusations of homophobia that followed his Twitter jokes left ...

Konstantin Khabensky - about the nomination of the film "Sobibor" for "Oscar" and freedom in Russia

The Russian Oscar Committee nominated Sobibor, a military drama by Konstantin Khabensky, for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. In an interview with Ekaterina Kotrikadze on the RTVI channel, Khabensky told why he chose Sobibor for his directorial debut; about how the Ministry of Culture of Russia influenced ...

Khabensky's film is included in the list of Oscar contenders

The nominees for the award will be announced on January 22, 2019. The picture of Konstantin Khabensky "Sobibor" was among 87 nominees for the "Oscar" in the category "Best Foreign Language Film", the organizers said. The long list in this nomination also included, in particular, the Belarusian film "Crystal" directed by Daria Zhuk, ...

As a former electrician from Kharkov, conquered Hollywood and won an Oscar for a film with Schwarzenegger

21 years ago, when Hollywood did not yet know computer graphics, the fantastic action movie “Predator” was released with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. Unique at that time special effects for this film were invented by an immigrant from Ukraine Evgeniy Mamut. In 1988 he...

Harvard, HBO, Oscar nomination and friendship with Portman: as an immigrant from Belarus embodies the American dream

For the first time in the history of the country, a Belarusian film has been nominated for an Oscar. Alina Nasibullina, the wife of rapper Husky, played the main role in the film about the failed immigration "Crystal". The KYKY edition told the story of director Daria Zhuk, who has been living between ...

The producers of “The Wolf of Wall Street” will pay the US authorities 60 million in the case of fraud

Red Granite, which funded Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, has agreed to pay the US government $ 60 million to settle a financial fraud case. As the RBC agency reports with reference to Reuters, in 2016 the American prosecutor's office suspected the Red company ...

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