Oscar is a Muslim !

Mahershala Ali is first Muslim actor to win academy award !

Reverted to Islam 17 years ago and is rewarded  :-*

"I'm so blessed to have had an opportunity. It was such a wonderful experience,

I also want to thank my wife, we just had our daughter four days ago  8)

so I just want to thank her for being such a soldier through this process

and really carrying me through it all,"

Ali won the best supporting actor award for his part as drug dealer Juan.


Moonlight an independent film tells the story of Chiron

a young gay African-American boy coming to terms with his sexuality

as he grows up in a tough Florida neighbourhood.

Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars -

but only after an error saw La La Land initially declared the winner.

The La La Land producers were in the middle of their acceptance speeches

when the mistake was discovered.

PriceWaterhouseCooper, the accountancy firm responsible for counting the ballots

apologised for the mix-up.  ::LOL::
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Actors and directors used the red carpet at the Oscars in Los Angeles

to broadcast their views on President Trump's temporary travel ban

on immigrants from seven Muslim majority countries !!

Writer and director Barry Jenkins wore [size=11pt]a blue ribbon[/size]

Ruth Negga :
   

as did model Karlie Kloss and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Ava DuVernay  :-*

Asghar Farhadi, who won the award for best foreign film for a second time :

"My absence is out of respect for the people of my country and those of the

other six nations who have been disrespected by the inhumane law

that bans entry of immigrants to the US."

Iranian-born US engineer and astronaut Anousheh Ansari read out Farhadi statement

"As a Mexican, as a Latin American, as a migrant worker, as a human being,

I'm against any form of wall that separates us,"


Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal, who last year appeared in American

comedy show Stephen Colbert as a Hispanic man who supported the wall

as he was presenting the award  for best animated feature film.