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?’
Eddie Murphy recently joined Entertainment Weekly to promote his Netflix documentary “Being Eddie” and looked back to when he presented best picture to Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor.” 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 would […]


