“Crowe, who won the Best Actor BAFTA for A Beautiful Mind, was reportedly so incensed that a poem he recited was cut from the tape-delayed telecast [ of the BAFTA's] that he roughed up one of the show’s producers.
Crowe -”Fat Kiwi idiot”
The enraged Gladiator allegedly accosted director Malcolm Gerrie at an afterparty at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel. Bystanders say Crowe shoved Gerrie up against a wall and cursed him out for cutting Crowe’s rendition of “Sanctity” (a poem by the late Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh) out of the edited BAFTA broadcast, which aired an hour later on the BBC…“Who on Earth had the…audacity to take out the Best Actor’s poem?” Variety quotes Crowe as yelling at Gerrie. “I’ll make sure you never work in Hollywood!” As it turned out, the 51-year-old Gerrie was innocent of the charges.”
Meanwhile his outburst may cost him his Oscar…
“Denzel’s been gaining fast ever since noms were announced on February 12,” says O’Neil, author of Movie Awards and also Webmaster of the award-show handicapping site GoldDerby.com. With Oscar ballots arriving to voters over the next few days, O’Neil says, “the Gladiator may have just fallen on his sword of hubris.” In a very close battle, it all hinges on whether the Academy is ready to put Crowe among those few actors like Tom Hanks and Spencer Tracy who have two back-to-back Oscars. Or whether they lean toward making a diversity statement and honoring leading man Denzel…It means nothing to give Crowe another Oscar, but it’s a real statement to recognize Washington.” says Thelma Adams, an Us Weekly writer and GoldDerby contributor who thinks Washington will be Oscar’d come March 24.”
From Crowe Unleashes Hell at BAFTAs
Hmmmmmm ‘diversity statement’? If I were Washington I would be insulted that I would need the academy to make a ‘diversity statement’ for me to win an Oscar.
US race baiters have made much of the fact that an African American has not won a best actor or actress Oscar for thirty years. It is cited as evidence that the academy is racist and that US society is still biased against blacks.
Of course this is utter rubbish, but announcing that ‘diversity statements’ might help African Americans win Oscars is an insult to those actors and implies a grim for of positive discimination is being encouraged - discrimination that can only detract form any potentail winners glory.
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