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Monday, January 13, 2020

#OscarsSoWhite: The complete list of Academy Award nominees

Nominations for the 92nd annual Academy Awards were announced by Issa Rae and John Cho on Monday morning and the list is BLEAK when it comes to honoring Black films.

Cynthia Erivo picked up a Best Actress nomination for her leading role in Harriet but the film was iced out of the Best Picture category.

American Factory (produced by Barack and Michelle Obama) earned a nod for Best Documentary but Black folks and women were left out of the Best Director race and there are no nominations for any other Black actors in any categories.

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Check out the full list of nominees:

Best picture

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“The Irishman”

“Parasite”

“1917”

“Marriage Story”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Joker”

“Little Women”

“Ford v Ferrari”

Best actress in a leading role

Renée Zellweger, “Judy”

Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”

Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”

Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”

Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”

Best actor in a leading role

Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”

Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”

Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes”

Best director

Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”

Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Bong Joon-ho, “Parasite”

Sam Mendes, “1917”

Todd Phillips, “Joker”

Best actor in a supporting role

Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Al Pacino, “The Irishman”

Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”

Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”

Best actress in a supporting role

Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”

Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

Florence Pugh, “Little Women”

Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”

Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell”

Best animated feature film

“Toy Story 4”

“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World”

“Missing Link”

“I Lost My Body”

“Klaus”

Best international feature film

South Korea, “Parasite”

Spain, “Pain and Glory”

France, “Les Misérables”

North Macedonia, “Honeyland”

Poland, “Corpus Christi”

Best original screenplay

“Marriage Story”

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“Parasite”

“Knives Out”

“1917”

Best adapted screenplay

“The Irishman”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Little Women”

“The Two Popes”

“Joker”

Best documentary feature

“American Factory”

“The Edge of Democracy”

“Honeyland”

“For Sama”

“The Cave”

Best original song

“I’m Standing With You,” from “Breakthrough”

“Into the Unknown,” from “Frozen II”

“Stand Up,” from “Harriet”

“ (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again,” from “Rocketman”

“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” from “Toy Story 4”

Best visual effects

“Avengers: Endgame”

“The Lion King”

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

“The Irishman”

“1917”

Best cinematography

“1917,” Roger Deakins

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Robert Richardson

“The Irishman,” Rodrigo Prieto

“Joker,” Lawrence Sher

“The Lighthouse,” Jarin Blaschke

Best production design

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“The Irishman”

“1917”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Parasite”

Best makeup and hairstyling

“Bombshell”

“Joker”

“Judy”

“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”

“1917”

Best costume design

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“Little Women”

“The Irishman”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Joker”

Best original score

“1917,” Thomas Newman

“Joker,” Hildur Guðnadóttir

“Little Women,” Alexandre Desplat

“Marriage Story,” Randy Newman

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” John Williams

Best documentary short subject

“In the Absence”

“Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl)”

“Life Overtakes Me”

“St. Louis Superman”

“Walk Run Cha-Cha”

Best animated short film

“Dcera (Daughter)”

“Hair Love”

“Kitbull”

“Memorable”

“Sister”

Best live action short film

“Brotherhood”

“Nefta Football Club”

“The Neighbors’ Window”

“Saria”

“A Sister”

Best film editing

“The Irishman”

“Ford v Ferrari”

“Parasite”

“Joker”

“Jojo Rabbit”

Best sound mixing

“1917”

“Ford v Ferrari”

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“Ad Astra”

“Joker”

Best sound editing

“1917”

“Ford v Ferrari”

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

“Joker”

Stay tuned for our list of snubs…it’s likely pretty long.

The Academy Awards will air live Feb. 9 on ABC.

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Brooklyn teenager bullied and beaten because he knows rapper 50 Cent

The mom of Brooklyn teenager Davian Fraser says her son was bullied and beaten at his high school because he knows rapper 50 Cent.

Myasia Dickerson, the 14-year-old’s mom, has filed a suit against New York City’s Department of Education after she claims school officials at Williamsburg Charter High School did nothing to protect her son from bullying, according to The New York Daily News. She said the abuse started some of the students realized that Davian knows the rapper.

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The Queens rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, met Davian in 2016 and shared some Instagram posts that appeared to first suggest Davian was his son, according to E! News.

“This is Davian doing his, I’m cooler then my dad look,” the rapper posted to IG with the photo. Fiddy later said the boy is not his actual child, just a kid he mentors.

Since then, Dickerson said bullies have come for her son.

“It caused a big uproar in the school,” Dickerson told The Daily News. “The kids started to follow my son around, tried to put him on Snapchat, tried to take videos of him. They were following him to the train station.”

On Dec. 16, four classmates allegedly approached the teen and started to punch him in the head near a school stairwell. According to a police report, a student followed Davian to his locker, prompting him to try and find a school security officer on the fifth floor to no avail.

The report says the student slammed Davian’s head into the floor of the stairwell.

“He was attacked from behind as he tried to walk away,” Dickerson told the newspaper. “He was punched in the head and then the student proceeded to fight him and then he slammed my son’s head onto the ground.”

Davian suffered injuries to his head and neck, according to Dickerson’s claim against the city. In it, she said her son still deals with emotional and psychological trauma from the attack.

Dickerson said she blames the school. She said her son sought safety in a classroom before he was attacked but that a teacher wouldn’t let him stay because the class was in session.

“The teacher told him, `No, I have a class right now. You can’t stay in my classroom,’” Dickerson explained, according to The Daily News.

She is seeking $5.5 million in damages in the suit.

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“Parents have the right to expect a safe environment when they send their child to school,” said the family’s attorney, Sanford Rubenstein. “When school personnel fail to provide that, especially when they are on notice of a problem, the school is liable to that child for damages.”

The rapper did not return requests for comment from The New York Daily News.

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