Oscars: Harvey Weinstein Discourages Boycott, Predicts Chris Rock Will 'Annihilate' Hollywood

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Oscars: Harvey Weinstein Discourages Boycott, Predicts Chris Rock Will 'Annihilate' Hollywood

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/r...tein-predicts-chris-869755?utm_source=twitter

"I just can imagine Chris Rock's opening remarks," Harvey Weinstein, the co-chief of The Weinstein Co., says as we sit down to record an episode of the 'Awards Chatter' podcast days ahead of Sunday's Rock-hosted 88th Academy Awards. (You can listen to the entire conversation below.) "If anybody's [planning on] boycotting the Oscars, don't, because Chris Rock is gonna annihilate every one of us [leaders of Hollywood studios/distribution companies] in the first 20 minutes of the show, and it will be well worth watching. It will be an Oscars to remember."

(Click below to listen to this episode now or click here to access all of our episodes via iTunes. Past guests includeSteven Spielberg, Lady Gaga, Will Smith, Amy Schumer, Samuel L. Jackson, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams, Brie Larson, Ridley Scott, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Sarah Silverman, Michael Moore, Benicio Del Toro and Lily Tomlin.)


This year, for the first time since 2008, and one of the few times in the last 25 years, none of Weinstein's films are nominated for best picture — Carol and The Hateful Eight came up short — but he's still going to the show, hoping for a best original score win for Hateful composer Ennio Morricone, among others associated with Weinstein Co. films, as well as a best actor win for "my buddy Leo [DiCaprio]" for The Revenant. That film, like the last two best picture Oscar winners 12 Years a Slave and Birdman, was guided to fruition by New Regency president/CEO Brad Weston, who used to be co-president of The Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films division.

Weinstein says he understands, from experience, the frustrations of the people calling for a boycott of the Oscars over the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and feels they have made a difference — but he does not support their ultimate objective. "It's that voice, actually, that gets people motivated," he says, "because you don't want the boycott. That's how people use their personal power to force change. So I look at that and go, 'Great,' because everybody's thinking about that now. I thought about it a couple of years ago because it had bugged me over the years that the films that I did about ethnic diversity never got anything. So I said, 'I'm gonna stack the deck for myself: I'm gonna put out The Butler, Mandela and Fruitvale Station in the same year,' okay? We got one nomination — for U2 — out of three movies." Was race the driving consideration? "I have no idea," he says, "but it has to make you think." He continues, "And then, that year, there was 12 Years a Slave, and I said, 'What is it, only one?'"

Even so, he disapproves of the way the Academy has sought to correct the problem. "I believe that Cheryl[Boone Issacs, the Academy's president] and Dawn [Hudson, the Academy's CEO] and the people who are currently on the Academy [Board] have their hearts in the right places," he says, but he opposes the revocation of voting privileges from "inactive" members — "people who've worked so hard all their lives and prize that Academy card and have reached that zenith and then go on to retirement," as he describes them.

Furthermore, he believes that industry pioneers like Jesse Lasky or Samuel Goldwyn would have been thrown out later in their lives under these rules: "Basically, under the rules, you would say to Jesse Lasky, 'I know you founded the business, I know you made the first narrative feature, I know you founded Paramount withAdolph Zukor, I know you did all this, Jesse, but I'm sorry, you've been inactive for X amount of years and you can't vote anymore."

Weinstein faults studios and distributors, more than members, for the lack of diversity at the Oscars, suggesting that members can only pick from a limited number of diverse options each awards season. "If we do one a year, let's try to do one-and-a-half a year at our size," he says of independent companies. "If the studios would look at their slates and say, 'You know what, we're gonna do one each,' then there are eight, nine choices, and in that situation the odds are overwhelmingly in favor [of producing nominees of color]. It's up to us, the people who produce, not penalizing Academy members." He adds, "I just don't think it's fair that people who are in the Academy are penalized. There's another way to get there."
 
Fundamentally, there's everything wrong with what Weinstein is saying, but i'm not gonna go down that route.

Anyway, I hope Rock pulls a Gervais and kills the shit. #dontholdback
 
White people like to be roasted. They love it whe. You tell them how racist they are in a joking matter that way no one will take it seriously.
 
and they are probably going to get the highest ratings in years...

wow, they disrespect us and get an even BIGGER come-up

Chris Rock got a Lot of pressure on him boy...

glad he meeting with Chappelle to help him out.
 
They need to do things differently. Many of the voting members didn't watch the films that got snubbed. Racism could easily enter the picture here (no doubt it has repeatedly)- especially since the overwhelming majority of the voting members are white. I would expect them to potentially avoid even giving Black led films a look. More people of color on the Board to even things out is a start.

Only active members should be on the Academy Board. There should be stipulations on membership. Members should be required to be fully active. ALL the films should be seen and voted on - even if it meant splitting the committee into 2 or 3 separate groups each required to watch all of a certain list of films nominated in certain categories. Which group one belongs to could be determined by lottery. Under that system, only group members assigned to a certain film should vote on it.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
 
I would tune in to see the only black nominee: The Weeknd perform "Earned It" from "Fifty Shades of Grey," (Best Original Song) however, I sense he's going to get "robbed" by some weak song by Lady Gaga or Sam Smith.
 
Fundamentally, there's everything wrong with what Weinstein is saying, but i'm not gonna go down that route.

Anyway, I hope Rock pulls a Gervais and kills the shit. #dontholdback
I been saying it and cats REFUSE to listen..:smh::smh::smh:

When the people you have issues with are smiling and waiting for the response..somethings wrong.

Chris Rock is going to do the same fuck cacs diatribe he's been doing...in fact his HBO comedy show and stand up career blew up because of it. He's about to do it again in front of world and white people are EAGERLY anticipating it...think about that..

now really LOOK AT what the fuck Harvey Weinstein Studio Head SAID:

"If anybody's [planning on] boycotting the Oscars, don't, because Chris Rock is gonna annihilate every one of us [leaders of Hollywood studios/distribution companies] in the first 20 minutes of the show, and it will be well worth watching. It will be an Oscars to remember."

does that sound like someone worried???


its a yes or no answer no need to elaborate
 
Weinstein says he understands, from experience, the frustrations of the people calling for a boycott of the Oscars over the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, and feels they have made a difference — but he does not support their ultimate objective. "It's that voice, actually, that gets people motivated," he says, "because you don't want the boycott. That's how people use their personal power to force change. So I look at that and go, 'Great,' because everybody's thinking about that now. I thought about it a couple of years ago because it had bugged me over the years that the films that I did about ethnic diversity never got anything. So I said, 'I'm gonna stack the deck for myself: I'm gonna put out The Butler, Mandela and Fruitvale Station in the same year,' okay? We got one nomination — for U2 — out of three movies." Was race the driving consideration? "I have no idea," he says, "but it has to make you think." He continues, "And then, that year, there was 12 Years a Slave, and I said, 'What is it, only one?'"

this is the most disingenous BULLSHIT I've ever read:lol::lol:
 
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There is nothing he could say - no "hard hitting" joke he could crack that would have a greater impact than him just refusing the gig altogether.
Maybe it's 3 am and he's twisting and turning in bed. By 11 am eastern, there's going to be big news that rock has cancelled his hosting duties. Mike epps has been tasked to the festivities.
 
There is nothing he could say - no "hard hitting" joke he could crack that would have a greater impact than him just refusing the gig altogether.
If he did cancel right now..it would be the last time we'd see chris rock in hollywood but that kind of sacrifice is whats needed in a struggle...again ask Ali, ask Eartha Kitt ask Paul Robeson all people who took a stand and took a hit to their careers for it.
 
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