{"id":2150191,"date":"2025-11-12T00:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150191"},"modified":"2025-11-12T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:19:23","slug":"eddie-murphy-called-out-the-oscars-live-on-stage-in-1988-for-not-awarding-black-actors-says-robin-williams-warned-him-it-might-not-be-funny-why-go-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/eddie-murphy-called-out-the-oscars-live-on-stage-in-1988-for-not-awarding-black-actors-says-robin-williams-warned-him-it-might-not-be-funny-why-go-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Called Out the Oscars Live on Stage in 1988 for Not Awarding Black Actors, Says Robin Williams Warned Him It Might Not Be Funny: \u2018Why Go There?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eddie Murphy<\/a> recently joined Entertainment Weekly<\/a> to promote his Netflix<\/a> documentary \u201cBeing Eddie<\/a>\u201d and looked back to when he presented best picture to Bernardo Bertolucci<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Last Emperor<\/a>.\u201d Murphy<\/a> deliberately used his time at the Oscars podium to call out the Academy for failing to recognize Black actors over the years. He thought the bit would generate headlines in the Hollywood press, but Murphy says in the doc that he was surprised to discover there were barely any the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember being with Robin Williams<\/a> backstage,\u201d Murphy recalled to EW about that Oscars night. \u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna say this.\u2019 And he goes to me, like, \u2018But why go there?\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh, you don\u2019t think it\u2019s funny?\u2019 It was more, \u2018Is it funny?\u2019 Rather than, \u2018It\u2019s controversial.\u2019 I was trying to be funny and say a little something, but be funny too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Murphy recently joined Entertainment Weekly to promote his Netflix documentary \u201cBeing Eddie\u201d and looked back to when he presented best picture to Bernardo Bertolucci\u2019s \u201cThe Last Emperor.\u201d Murphy deliberately used his time at the Oscars podium to call out the Academy for failing to recognize Black actors over the years. He thought the bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2150192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2150191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eddie-Murphy-Called-Out-the-Oscars-Live-on-Stage-in.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150193,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150191\/revisions\/2150193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}