Actress, comedienne and TV host Mo’Nique won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Precious.”
She beat out Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Penelope Cruz, as she did at the Golden Globes.
“I would like to thank the Academy for proving that it can be about the performance and not the politics, ” she said at the podium before thanking the cast and her husband. “To my amazing husband, Sidney — thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forego doing what’s popular, in order to do what’s right.”
This was Mo’Nique’s first Oscar nomination and she joins a small sorority of Black women who have won Oscars. Hattie McDaniel claimed best supporting actress in 1939’s “Gone with the Wind,” Whoopi Goldberg won best supporting actress for 1990’s “Ghost,” Halle Berry took best actress for 2001’s “Monster’s Ball” and Jennifer Hudson got best supporting actress for 2006’s “Dreamgirls.”
(props to MrWorldPremiere)
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at 8:38 am
I wasn’t too keen of the movie but…. Mo did her thang!!!!!
at 8:07 pm
Whatever you think of Mo’nique, good, bad, or indifferent, she took that role and made us all hate her…that’s what acting is about. I agree with all the comments as it relates to blacks and the fact that we only appear to win when we are portrayed in negative, stereotypical roles, but I’m still happy and proud that she won!
at 8:34 am
There are two females on TV I cannot stomach Monique and Wendy Williams fake fake fake.
at 6:42 pm
soooo out of all the actors Mo’ Nique won? If they were looking at the movie Precious to make such a decision then the girl that played Precious should’ve won the award.
at 5:25 pm
Yes I think I have the right. Problem?
at 12:51 pm
21st Holiday…do you have a mirror? do you really think that you have the right or station in life to call someone a monster?
nogar/Jayy2k…a true actor is someone that can take a role and super impose themselves into that character. Who said that any of us had to be one-dimensional? The world isn’t set up that way. people in corporate America have to know more than one job…women (especially black women) assume varied roles all of the time. Should they not take care of home because the person that is “supposed” to have that role isn’t there? As for white America…they have applauded and supported their actors that took on roles of discontent (Jodie Foster(white trash), Kathy Bates(mental case), Jack Nicholson(pyscho), Anthony Hopkins(crazy period) etc etc)…yet black America is constantly crying victim. Hattie McDaniels won for being a servant. Should she not have won. If you want black actors to win for playing a school teacher or a scientist…write that role. Furthermore, since we’re so concerned with image…take on a bigger issue…Gangsta rap…and the calling of women and girls b***hes and hoes…thug/violent mentality being promoted at every turn…young men with their pants below their crack showing up at job interviews…focus on the black drop out rate…not what role a person played to get an Oscar. This is not a priority or key to black growth in this country. So…next year if there are no black nominees….Then what? White America again? Mo’Nique took a script…read it…learned her lines and became that character for entertainment and to use her skills as a multi-faceted entertainer. Period! Great job Mo’Nique! Thank you for entertaining me and bringing a “real life” issue to the silver screen.
at 11:39 am
Mo’Nique is a loud, fat monster…that part was perfect for her
at 9:55 am
She won that’s good on her part.I don’t care if its for a negative role its just a movie to me
at 4:59 pm
Congrats to her she deserved it. But my issue is they only give us awards when we act like monsters. I cant remember the last time i seen a black actor win an Oscar for a strong uplifting role. Probably a long ass time ago if ever. Everyone else wins for all type of crap. we win for being a prostitute, dirty cop, and an abusive mother!! Go figure!!
at 4:56 pm
If you recall, if you even pay attention to things outside of what this site suggest that you know, Jackson had issues with rappers taking on roles that ‘true’ black actors could have. He named Will Smith. I agree with him. That is why when I saw his facial expressions, I knew what he had to be thinking.
No, we are not hating for hating, we are critiquing because of the pattern in Hollywood, which is Jewish run always deciding the image that blacks should have. It was the Jew who made us look bad since the birth of Hollywood. It was the Jew that made “Birth of a Nation,” but they want you to believe that the KKK is against them too.
Whites love to observe black misery, but never participate in resolving the problems. Back in the late 80 and early 90’s, whites bought most of NWA’s and Public Enemy’s albums. Interviews with white from the times said that they loved hearing the black man talk about the black man’s issues. See, they don’t mind hearing it, but they do mind when we act on them.
Precious is just another ‘black problem’ that whites don’t mind hearing or seeing, but when it comes to films that offer black people some solutions, THAT they don’t want to hear or see.