Among the candidate films for the next Oscars is Antoine Fuqua’s powerful drama produced by Apple and with the participation of Will Smith“Emancipation”. Fuqua, is the same one who gave Denzel Washington his long-awaited statuette as leading actor for “Training Day” (2001). And the film is Apple’s great card to go for a statuette again: the platform won the Oscar for Best Picture this year with “CODABut it’s not clear how aggressively he will campaign for a movie that has Smith.
A film for which the actor pocketed US$ 35 million dollarsand in which Smith plays Peter, a character based on the famous “whipped peter“, a runaway slave whose photo – of his flogged back – became one of the most widely circulated images of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War.
A powerful character. But even if Smith becomes the first actor since Tom Hanks in getting consecutive Oscars to the best actor, will not be able to accept it. Didn’t even record a message. After the slap to Chris Rockthe Academy resolved to ban Smith from broadcasting the Oscars and associated events for a decade.
But even though he can’t accept his award, Smith can still be nominated and even win. and heThe Academy would have welcomed the apology video that the protagonist of “King Richard” recorded.
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