What about Waiting to Exhale? That was a movie about women and their relationships, living their lives, etc. etc.

I actually think “Why Did I Get Married” was #1 at the box office in North America. It was successful enough that they made a 2nd one...

Counterpoint: Stallone was excellent in Creed. He was one of strongest parts of a movie that had many strong parts.

You had me until you said sly was weak in ‘creed’

I can’t help but feel MJ would be honored by that casting choice.

I thought “Why Did I Get Married” was one of the ONLY movies Perry did that showed black people just living their lives, dealing with the struggles of relationships everyone deals with. Not a great movie but I remember watching it and being like “WOW! This is Tyler Perry?!”

Robin Williams, in his interview with Marc Maron, said that people made a big deal about his Oscar win for about a week and then it was back to “And what did your last five movies gross?” or something to that effect. I’m sure he was exaggerating slightly for humorous effect but I doubt JK Simmons’ price skyrocketed to…

And Global Beet would probably argued that blacks are underrepresented in the Oscars when the data shows they are slightly overrepresented.

Winning an Oscar doesn’t get you anything except a trophy, an envelope and a permanent place in the World Almanac. Perhaps one could leverage their winning for more money or another role, but that’s similar to a high school student putting their Gold Award on a college app. It’s something that would be considered, but…