Asian Oscar winner for 'Summer of Soul' slams Will Smith, and Chris Rock
Everything we know about the infamous moment at the 2022 Oscars, from the history leading up to the onstage shocker to today’s latest developments.was, inevitably, overshadowed by The Slap — including the night’s many historic wins and the In Memoriam segment — but none was as lost in the immediate aftermath as Searchlight Pictures and Hulu’s “Summer of Soul ,” a feat of archival preservation documenting the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
It was the first Oscar win for Patel, fellow producers Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein and director and executive producer Thompson. The Roots frontman/filmmakeras audiences inside the Dolby Theatre and those watching at home were still abuzz and in shock over Smith’s onstage assault of Rock. Just six years ago it was Rock, as Oscars host, who trotted three children of Asian descent onstage dressed as PriceWaterhouseCoopers accountants in a gag that. “They sent us their most dedicated, accurate and hard-working representatives,” Rock said in the 2016 telecast. “Please welcome Ming Zhu, Bao Ling and David Moskowitz.”
Only eight previous competitive Oscars have gone to winners of South Asian descent, he said. Two of those winners, “Slumdog Millionaire” composer A.R. Rahman and “Saving Face” and “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, have two Oscars each. In 1991, celebrated Indian auteur Satyajit Ray was awarded an honorary Oscar. Patel is the 10th individual winner of South Asian descent in Academy history.
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