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12 Years A Slave Makes History At Oscar 2014 …As Lupita Nyongo Wins Best Supporting Actress Award
The slavery drama, “12
Years A Slave,” has won the Academy Award for best picture, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honour in 86 years of the Oscars.
British Director, Steve McQueen’s unflinching portrayal of pre-civil war American slavery also won two other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyongo and best adapted screen play based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man sold into slavery in Louisiana.
“12 years a slave” prevailed over space thriller Gravity”, from Mexican film maker, Alfonso Cuaron, which never the less racked up the most Oscars of the Night with seven including the best director honour for Cuaron, a first for a latin America Director.
Low budget “Dallas Buyers Club,” a biopic of an early Aids activities two decades in the making won three Oscars, including the two male acting awards. Matthew McConanghey won best actor for his portrayal of the homophobe turned AIDs victim turned treatment crusader, Ron Woodroof his co-star, Lared Leto won best supporting actor for his role as Woodroof’s unlikely business sidekick the transgender woman Rayon.
Mathew David Mc Conanghey in the 2000s, became best known for starring in romantic comedies, including the Wedding planner (2001), “How to lose a Guy in 10 days” (2003), “Failure to Launch” (2006) and “Ghost of Girl Friends Past” (2009).
Since 2010, he has moved away from romantic comedies and has had critically acclaimed roles in the films, the Lincoln Lawyer (2011) Bernie (2011), Killer Joe (2011), Mud (2012), Mud (2012), Magic Mike (2012) and the Wolf of Wall Street (2013) for portraying a cowboy diagnosed with Aids in the biographical film” Dallas Buyers Club,” which earned him the Golden Glob award for Best Actor-Drama, among other awards and nominations. He currently stars in the 2014 HBO crime anthology series, True Detectives alongside Woody Harrelson.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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