*Octavia Spencer wasn’t the only African American to win an Academy Award Sunday night. Sean “Diddy” Combs surprised the world when he took home an Oscar for his involvement in “Undefeated.”
The Hip Hop mogul won it for executive producing the football flick for best documentary.
Movie partner and director T.J. Martin was overwhelmed with the award and forgot where he was. The guy dropped the f-bomb while accepting the award, but rightfully so because he is the first black director to win an Oscar.
The film opened in February 2011 and follows the highs and lows of underfunded and underprivileged high school football team from Tennessee.
The story just happened to be something close to Diddy’s heart.
“When I was coming up and I went to high school, it was my dream to be a football player and I broke my leg in the last day of camp,” Diddy recently told ET. “The movie really moved me in a personal way, but it could touch people in so many other ways.”
He later went to Twitter to thank his fans and family, writing, “Dreams do come true!!!!! #undefeated!!!! Let’s go!!!”
Here’s Diddy on his involvement with “The Undefeated”:
Good for Puff…but this is going to be one more thing for him to be arrogant about. I’m sure we will hear about this in a rap song. (sighhh)
Director TJ Marting is half white, he is even quoted as saying that his experience is not the same as someone with two black parents. Finally a biracial speaks the truth!
Second, congratulations to P. Diddy. I personally know a documentary filmmaker who did not want Sean to Executive Produce her documentary a few years ago. She is still struggling for funding and Diddy has an Oscar now. I hope she knows the mistake she made in not getting with Diddy.
I feel what you’re saying on one end but on the other maybe the filmmaker is/was more interested in protecting her creation and maintaining her integrity than any money she could get from Diddy. I did a quick looking-into to find that Diddy just signed-on with the movie earlier this month.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sean-combs-joins-the-weinstein-companys-huddle-as-executive-producer-of-oscar-nominated-documentary-undefeated-139019929.html
That’s interesting.
Diddy is all about the money and the fame…and of course, Diddy. In all the years he’s owned Bad Boy and produced these shows and hosted these endeavors, what other artists have benefitted? Where are they now? Biggie was probably the only one who actually came away with something he could call his own – I’d go a step farther to notice that it was Biggie who helped to build Bad Boy just as much or maybe even more than Diddy – but where is he now? As long she/the film maker stays true to her Self, she’ll be blessed in ways far beyond what Diddy would ever offer.
This is one that I’d like to check out. From the clips alone I see so much pain and abandonment and struggle…these are children now but clock-time moves fast, even faster as it’s moving out, so I then think about the little ones and smaller ones being born and toddling around in the area and other areas dealing with similar issues and I don’t feel good about it or they’re future. It’s got to be something so monumental yet so simple that can change our collective circumstances for the better literally and/or figuratively overnight. Anything is possible. Not a day goes by without me trying to figure out what that might be.
Cause and effect is science…real…natural. And I say this because so many of the little things we
overlook these daze and have adopted into our mindsets as “normal” or “ok” are not, and in bits and pieces contribute to more of our downfall. Like reading a section of the snippet: “…The guy dropped the f-bomb while accepting the award, but rightfully so because he is the first black director to win an Oscar” – this is a prime example. “Rightfully so”? He was ‘right’ to say that…or he should have said that? C’mon…I doubt very seriously our ancestors would be proud of us thinking in those ways, especially because he was the first (as is noted).
Dropping the f-bomb to some might be acceptable but to say it when accepting an award we can now even be considered to receive at the expense of countless numbers of ancestors who sacrificed their lives for our opportunities dishonors them, first and foremost, then it sets a bad example for the ones whose only example is the tv. Please know that my words are not about shooting us down but they’re about lifting us up AND I’m not judging, I’m making an observation. The writer most likely was being light-hearted when s/he wrote it but we all have to be more mindful of the things we say (exactly) because words are very, very powerful…thoughts+words+action=a creation.
4 guys 3 trophies in the photo. Who boguarded their way into this pic?
The so called Hip Hop mogul won an Oscar for executive producing the football flick for best documentary. Do the Academy Awards not hand out Oscars for this category where Diddy has seem to won the award for? The picture above shows 4 dudes, and 3 of them holding their Oscars as Diddy is pictured holding onto someone’s else. So Diddy’s involvement does not warrant him to hold one on his own or not?
I wonder why these artists that get with Diddy never stick with him long, with the exception of the B.I.G.