Inside one week, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson has received each an Oscar and a Grammy for his documentary, “Summer time of Soul(…Or, When the Revolution May Not Be Televised).”
Fortunately, when the musician took the stage on the Grammy Awards on Sunday evening to simply accept the award for Greatest Music Movie, the second wasn’t overshadowed by an onstage slap.
“What a journey for this movie since Sundance all the way in which till … final week,” he started in his acceptance speech earlier than letting out fun.
The musician went on to present particular because of the artists who appeared within the documentary, which takes a glance again on the largely forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Competition.
The movie received the award over “Inside” (Bo Burnham), “David Byrne’s American Utopia” (David Byrne, directed by Spike Lee), “Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles” (Billie Eilish) and “Music, Cash, Insanity... Jimi Hendrix in Maui” (Jimi Hendrix).
The earlier Sunday, on the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Questlove received the trophy for documentary characteristic instantly after actor Will Smith slapped comic Chris Rock onstage over a joke in regards to the “King Richard” star’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith.
Moments earlier than Rock introduced Questlove’s characteristic because the winner, Rock had joked that Pinkett Smith, who has publicly mentioned her lengthy wrestle with alopecia, would star in a “G.I. Jane” sequel, an obvious reference to her shaved head.
After initially laughing on the crack, Smith strode up on stage and slapped Rock earlier than returning to his front-row seat and yelling obscenities on the comic.
Days after the Oscars ceremony, Questlove addressed the incident on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” the place he serves because the frontman for the late-night present’s band, The Roots.
Questlove defined that he “actually wasn’t conscious” of the slap on the time, including, “After all, [winning the award] occurred within the cyclone of an entire different state of affairs with two superb associates of mine.”
“It’s bizarre to say, as a result of they let you know forward of time, ‘That is your class,’ so in that second you’re both going to be full of hysteria or, for me, I’ve been meditating for the final two years,” he stated.
His collaborators, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein, nevertheless, have been bit extra vital of each Smith and Rock within the days following.
Patel stated the 2 “robbed” the group of their second on stage and took problem with Rock asserting that the winner was “Ahmir Thompson and 4 white guys.”
“The rationale that makes me SO SO VERY ANGRY is as a result of I used to be so proud to be one in all a handful of South Asians to have ever received an Oscar within the historical past of the award,” Patel wrote in a since-deleted Twitter thread.
He concluded the thread by including that he was “indignant at Will Smith. Indignant at Chris Rock. Indignant for me. Indignant for Ahmir. Indignant for my fellow filmmakers” and blasting Rock as “an absolute fucking dick.”
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