The Academy Awards

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Now in its fifth year, Byron Allen’s Oscar gala brings together many of Hollywood’s finest to support the care of the city’s most vulnerable.
/ March 12, 2023
The film has become an awards season favorite, notching wins with the Producers Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild.
/ March 7, 2023
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – A female Academy member gave an anonymous interview explaining her votes for the Oscar nominees as well as addressing some of the Oscar “snubs” that have recently made headlines, most notably Selma…
/ February 19, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
OPINION – The current guidelines are weighted towards people that already have their foot in the door, and they don’t allow for diversity to occur at the rate needed to influence significant change…
/ January 20, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Responding for the first time to the firestorm of criticism over the lack of diversity in […]
/ January 17, 2015
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – It was big night in Hollywood Sunday and an even bigger night for winners who took home the Oscar during the live airing of the 86th Academy Awards…
/ March 3, 2014
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.
theGRIO REPORT – The Oscars air Sunday and according to research, striking information highlights the diversity gap in the Academy Awards since it first formed in 1927…
/ February 26, 2014