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Angelique Jackson As the 2021 Oscars prepare to go hostless for the third year in a row, Whoopi Goldberg shares what it takes to emcee the biggest night in movies.The 1991 best supporting actress Oscar winner has also hosted the Academy Awards four times, making history as the first (and still only) Black woman to emcee the broadcast solo in 1994 and hosting again in 1996, 1999 and 2002.“I had a great time,” Goldberg tells Variety of her experiences hosting the show.
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Variety for a wide-reaching profile piece to celebrate 30 years since she won her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the supernatural love story Ghost.During the interview, she talked about some of her upcoming projects including a superhero movie she’s writing about “an older Black woman who acquires new powers and has to learn to use them”.“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been obsessed with superheroes,” Goldberg said. “They’re all saving the earth all the time.
Chadwick Boseman sadly didn’t win the Oscar for Best Actor tonight, but his wife Simone Ledward Boseman was there to accept the award on his behalf in the chance he would win.
Riz Ahmed and his wife, novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, turned heads on the red carpet of the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday.The 38-year-old British actor, who's nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (his first nomination from the Academy), looked sharp in a sleek black suit by Prada.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been announced as the host of Saturday Night Live on 8th May but not everyone is eager to see the South African entrepreneur front the show. Musk will be appearing alongside musician Miley Cyrus on the show in two weeks time and given his antics on Twitter, shouldn’t come as a huge shock to anyone.
Gallery: Oscars Hosts Throughout The Years (And How They Were Ranked) (ELLE (UK))The actress and writer used her own experience of sexual assault to tell the story of Arabella, who rebuilds her life after she is assaulted in London, in the acclaimed comedy-drama. And Michaela recalled arriving in Los Angeles to meet executives to pitch I May Destroy You to them and being so jet-lagged that she ended up falling asleep in a truck outside the offices.
In a typical Oscar week, Essence's Black Women in Hollywood Awards is a star-studded, tears-and-laughter packed, invitation-only luncheon celebrating the industry's Black female talent. This year, Essence’s 14th time hosting the event, called for a more pandemic friendly, virtual approach, albeit one that still packed plenty of emotion.
Gallery: Hey, I'm talking to you! The most memorable moments of the SAG Awards (BANG Showbiz)Michaela also believes those she pitched to probably thought she was "unstable" because she didn't present them with a treatment or pilot for the show. She shared: "When I look back at that meeting, I think the executives deemed me unstable.
Whoopi Goldberg wants in on the superhero trend.
Ghost actor is currently writing won't look like your typical Avengers fare, a.k.a a bunch of straight white dudes running around in tights. No, instead, an older Black woman will be at the center of the storyline.
Whoopi Goldberg is pulling up her own chair to the realm of superhero films. The 65-year-old actress and often outspoken co-host of "The View" revealed to Variety that she is actively underway penning a script for an original superhero film centered on an older Black woman who acquires superhuman powers but has to teach herself how to control and use them.
Whoopi Goldberg is looking back on her Oscar win in 1990.
It’s been nearly 30 years since Whoopi Goldberg donned a nun’s habit for 1992’s blockbuster comedy Sister Act, where her lounge singer character Deloris Van Cartier was put into a convent for witness protection after her mobster boyfriend commits murder in front of her. But she’s getting ready for the third installment for Disney Plus after years of an idea for the movie being kicked around in development.