Will try to do a thread of BIPOC #Oscars
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> winners tonight. First up: Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor.
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Moving #Oscars
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> speech thanking her ancestors and on breaking glass ceilings that made me cry from Best Makeup and Hairstyling winner Mia Neal.
Mia Neal, the hair department head for the film “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” just made #Oscars
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> history alongside her colleague Jamika Wilson as the first Black women to win in makeup and hairstyling.
Chloé Zhao makes #Oscars
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> history as first Asian woman and woman of color to win Best Director. Listen to her profound speech about finding the goodness in ourselves and others.
“James Baldwin said the most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people’s pain. Don’t be indifferent”—Trayvon Free, winner of best Live Action Short. #Oscars
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Yuh-Jung Youn wins Best Supporting Actress (2nd Asian woman to ever win an acting Oscar). Her speech deserves an Oscar: from forgiving everyone for butchering her name to calling the Oscars just a TV show she watched in S. Korea.
Tyler Perry wins the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award #Oscars
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> “My mother taught me to refuse hate, to refuse blanket judgment, to lift someone’s feet off the ground.”
“God gave us 12 notes, same notes that Duke Ellington had, that Bach had”-Jon Batiste, winner of Best Original Score. #Oscars
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“Knowledge is power, music is power and I will always fight for what is right.” H.E.R. wins Best Original Song. #Oscars
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