Goes to show how much the slap stole the show, cause I can't even recall what he was nominated for. Had to look it up, but he won for King Richard (the movie about Sernea and Venus Williams).

[–] TheBat 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me. Some social media feminists were furious that movie about Williams sisters is named after a man.

I was like, they're both executive producers and their other sister (Isha Price) was also involved in the making of the film. Maybe they wanted to honour their dad?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I mean... Five minutes before the slap, he was sitting in his front-row seat at an internationally-televised award ceremony where he had just been nominated for two of the most coveted honors in cinema. I dunno if he was that bad off.

[–] EdibleFriend 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Eh....not really. He hadn't done anything Independence Day level for a while but he was still cranking out popular shit. That movie about the Williams sisters was only 1 year before he threw it all away and that did pretty well.

[–] ripcord 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He was there literally receiving an award for that movie, even

[–] EdibleFriend 3 points 9 months ago

Hahaha I honestly forgot that