Russell Simmons Launches All Def Movie Awards: ‘Not the Black Oscars, But They Could Be’

[satam55]

Best Picture nominees include “Beasts of No Nation,” “Chi-Raq,” “Concussion,” “Creed,” “Dope” and “Straight Outta Compton”

All Def Digital, the fastest growing video programming brand in hip hop and youth culture, is hosting the first-ever All Def Movie Awards just days before the Oscars, at the World Famous TCL Chinese 6 Theatres. The live event will be held on February 24 and hosted by Tony Rock.

Awards will be recognized by members of the All Def Academy, who today announced the following films will compete for Best Picture of 2015:

BEASTS OF NO NATION
CHI-RAQ
CONCUSSION
CREED
DOPE
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Members of the public can vote for two categories in the All Def Movie Awards (Best Picture and Most Quoted Movie) online at Tony Rock to Host the 1st Annual All Def Movie Awards…It’s Lit | AllDefDigital through midnight onFebruary 23rd.

Other awards will honor Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director as well as Best Bad Muh F**ka and other often overlooked categories, such as Best Helpful White Person and Best Black Survivor in a Movie.

The All Def Movie Awards, which will be held just yards from the Academy Awards stage, will feature a Black Carpet for celebrity presenters, arrivals and VIP guests. The show will also feature a special live musical performance, and a consistent stream of video content before, during and after the show on all of ADD’s social channels, including Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat and Periscope.

“If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself,” said Tony Rock. “With that in mind I have teamed up (I guess I didn’t do it myself) with ADD to bring you the ‘All inclusive’, All Def Movie Awards. We’ll honor the entire movie making process. Great acting, mediocre acting as well as horrible acting. Soundtracks. Wardrobes. Maybe even craft services (the best part of the set). This is the award show Hollywood has been waiting for.”

Added Russell Simmons, founder and chairman of All Def Digital, “I don’t expect a 90 year-old Academy member to see Straight Outta Compton or vote for it. I’m more concerned that in 2016 there continues to be a stunning lack of diversity in the studios, in the green light process, in the decisions of what films and television series get made, and what actors get chosen. This needs to be addressed institutionally. The All Def Movie Awards are not the Black Oscars, but they could be. This will be a fun, entertaining and hopefully thought provoking celebration of the uncelebrated.”

The All Def Movie Awards will be programmed as part of All Def Comedy Live, which has become the hottest live weekly comedy showcase in stand-up today. HBO is currently developing a series around the weekly event, which routinely draws celebrities and the best new, emerging and established artists working America’s comedy stages.

Admission is by invitation only, but a select number of seats will be reserved for fans by lottery.

Tony Rock serves as host and master of ceremonies for All Def Comedy Live as well as the newly revamped legendary talent competition Apollo Live. Rock has appeared in box office hits and television series such as Hitch, Think Like a Man, “Everybody Hates Chris,” and “Real Househusbands of Hollywood,” among other shows and films. He has also been seen as a headlining act on two nationwide comedy tours: “The Standing Ovation Comedy Tour” and his own “Rock The Mic Comedy Tour.”

All Def Digital is the leading multi-platform media company for millennials focusing on urban youth culture through premium video programming across comedy, music, lifestyle and topical and timely social commentary. The company nurtures new, emerging and established artists and produces and incubates a broad spectrum of original content through an efficient and transformative media model leveraged across social video platforms, traditional and premium television and motion-picture development, live events, and its own record label in partnership with Universal Music Group. ADD also includes a curated, invite-only network of talent–from social video stars to traditional writers and stand-up comics, from poets to hip hop recording artists. The company partners with global brands to create immersive and authentic social content experiences with unique talent voices. ADD is among the most subscribed-to and watched digital networks for urban comedy and music. The company is based in Los Angeles, California, with offices in New York. Its investors include Nu Horizons, Greycroft Partners, e.ventures and Advancit Capital.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Rushcards in every swag bag for the nominees

 

[STAN JONES]

hold up are they trolling with this shyt

they really gonna have a "Best Helpful White Person" and "Best Black Survivor in a Movie" categories?

this shyt will be Razzies status after the 1st year

 

[He Who Posts Well]

This won't solve the problem

 

[MewTwo]

hold up are they trolling with this shyt

they really gonna have a "Best Helpful White Person" and "Best Black Survivor in a Movie" categories?

this shyt will be Razzies status after the 1st year

Something called 'humor'

 

[satam55]

This won't solve the problem

This. The NAACP Image awards is already the defacto Black Award show for Movies & TV shows.

 

[STAN JONES]

Something called 'humor'

i get it but im a little disappointed

i was expecting an awards show people wold actually take serious

like i said this shyt will be Razzies status

 

[EzekelRAGE]

I remember several ppl were like "why not get your own awards and quit looking for the white man's recognition" in the thread where Viola Davis made her speech when she won. I guess those ppl will be happy that Russell is doing that. Thing is, these awards won't have the recognition that having an oscar will, and will never be able to. Like others said, won't solve the problem and really doesn't help either.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

hold up are they trolling with this shyt

they really gonna have a "Best Helpful White Person" and "Best Black Survivor in a Movie" categories?

this shyt will be Razzies status after the 1st year

And they got Chris Rock's brother to host...

I was SURE this was an onion article

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

After rush cards fleased the poor

After making a Harriet Tubman porn parody

After fraternizing with Trump for years on some token shyt


Nah he ain't the one... I'm good

 

[Clark Wayne]

Damn, before I read the thread I was thinking this was going to be something serious.

 

[Taadow]

Dope as a Best Picture nominee, huh?

"Best Helpful White Person", huh?

"Best Bad Muthaf--ka", huh?

The people vote, huh?



Ah well, at least they're trying.

 

[-DMP-]

wait, this is real?

 

[Ol’Otis]

This. The NAACP Image awards is already the defacto Black Award show for Movies & TV shows.

we need to reinvent the image awards that shyt came and went this year

 

[RajWatts]

tell me this is some onion shyt