Charles Woods (aka The Professor) - "Is There an Oscar Curse?"

Film historian CHARLES WOODS (aka The Professor) dissects the myth of "The Oscar Curse" surrounding actors of color by looking at the post-Oscar careers of Halle Berry, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Louis Gossett, Jr and Mo'Nique in this exclusive clip. Camera and Edit: Mike D. Clip research: Charles Woods.
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[@Frugality]

Halle wasn't a great actress to begin with before and after.

[@xman9190]

I love this guy. I love this series.

[@nola06]

excellent

[@sancofa7]

I really love this seriesf videos. You guys are doing a great job. Please keep it up

[@reelblack]

Thank you

[@Hapshetsut28]

Can the professor talk about actress Cecily Tyson. I admire her very much. Why didn't she win Oscar or an lifetime achievement award Oscar for her body of work. I love the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

[@Mr.Chris.P.Bacon1]

When the professor speaks I LITERALLY break out the pad and pen & take notes like a kid in class.

[@Tecboy08]

Thank you ReelBlack & Professor Woods! Such an eye opening experience. Things I have always said & discussed with my family & peers. Even @ the barbershop co-workers laughed joked like I was talking another language. I used to walk out of class when rhe teacher would always show films of us being beaten or attacked by dogs. While the white kids laughed. Sent to the principles office for leaving class. I always had deep visions of flipping the script. Showing the abuse the other way around. I know that they will protest before that imagery would even get out. If we arent cast as pimps, drug dealers, slaves, prostitutes, we can forget it. Something I always pondered.

[@Hapshetsut28]

+Tecboy08 We should make our own movies period.

[@razorbackfilms]

Tecboy08 if you haven't listen to Richard Pryor Black Hollywood. Your statements are right on.

[@thevizkid]

Tecboy08

[@kay-marie1076]

Charles Woods is so dead on about this! Keep him coming. I just wish he would come here to the UK and teach us Black Brits! Is he related to Paul Mooney? LOL

[@cabalofdemons]

Keep interviewing this guy. It's great he's able to expand his views to millions. I just wish millions would listen.

[@ookingramseyoo]

GREAT VIDEO! Every one of his videos are GOLD, love this guy.

[@invisiblerevolution]

We need to stop CRYING every time they give us an award.

[@MrAndrew201]

TEACH HIM!!!!! Don't hate on crying

[@marydavis7978]

A damn toy!😣😣😣😣

[@indyahrashaud1346]

Professor Woods be on it.

[@tonycsilva100]

I agree with The Professor, their can’t be a story told without having to be very explicit, Forrest Gump talked about Jenny getting abused but you never see that why it’s a beautiful story that can be watched over again without being too graphic.

[@krystalharris1259]

tonycsilva100 I can't ever watch when she takes her top for Forrest. I feel uncomfortable. But everything else is good.

[@pamelacarey2460]

What upset me about her winning is that she had better work. They chose the worst type of work to degrade her in.

[@marydavis7978]

She could have turned it down! Like Angela Basett!

[@angelapowell9030]

Precious and Monster Ball did not see them... and do not want to them....Sad, mix-up movies, doing ....Do we have show everything, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@blackpricelessllc.5376]

Salute! Never seen either film . No need for trama porn!

[@samuelwilder9928]

I am so glad you guys exist---- we need to be told the truth ---- we have been fooled long enough-----Thanx brothers!

[@veronicaancrum4871]

First I wanna tell you all I love this channel. I hope one day black actors totally reject these awards. We don’t need that validation because it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the quality or talent because the bottom line everything is political.

[@boogieblackwell5821]

Black actors have to play despicable roles or do horrific things just to get a Oscar. Smh

[@vondachester1407]

Are time is now, that's why there working so hard to get rid of bill Cosby

[@calvinroyal8376]

Eartha Kitt is a Queen!! Very Heavy!..And Ohhhhh! the sexy, sultry, honey dripping voice!! I feel it every time! 😋😻

[@Hendog410]

Setting up an industry of our own.. that will be the one and only way 💯💯💯

[@okay5045]

F Murray Abraham disappeared after Amadeus . It happens a lot

[@oscarorozco8989]

Well...this aged extremely well.

[@xman9190]

Halle Berry was embarrassing.

[@okay5045]

The professor is on it spot on

[@kwesistone7868]

On the really reel we can't expect consciousness to be overwhelmingly popular in the entertainment industry until it becomes popular in our overall American social culture. It's just not there yet, but we all know the problem Racism presents in all of Capitalism. It's clear that too many entertainers are only reading the bottom dollar and not even the bottom line, the contract or the script! And put shyster agent/lawyers in between them and the actual production forces and you can easily tell why so many entertainers filmography's and discography's are so bipolar and erratic!!! And on the other point, how well read are our entertainers? I guarantee most(of the "popular" ones) will mistake complexity for depth every time and wind up in some bullshit and then blame it on lack of choices. If you have and are worth $20+million in the entertainment industry your'e supposed to have all the choice in the world...if you're truly an intellectual!

[@gregorylee2345]

Hey Charles. You are the real genius. Not me.

[@krystalharris1259]

She was crying so well...

[@sherrionsarda7101]

Her best performance ever!!

[@marvelgreenaway3506]

BIG FRAUD!!!

[@tiffanybrown84]

Crappy Movies

[@leejohnstone2387]

Julie Andrews was the first actress to suffer from the so called Oscar curse. She Made Mary Poppins in 1964 did The Sound Of Music a year later and won the best actress Oscar for The Sound Of Music yet no one can or remember any of the films she made after the Sound Of Music. Julie Andrews career nose dived after she won her Oscar and she hasn't been in a major blockbuster since 1965

[@sancofa7]

Great words by Professor Woods

[@Gary80264]

Get good parts. Geta good agent

[@lonniejackson5733]

What's not really talked about is that other Black entertainers didn't support Mo"Nique. They criticized her and her efforts to value her self in Hollywood.

[@Zeldarw104]

Hello! Hello! Hello! That's all I could say when Charles Wood's speaks it's like he looked into my psyche. 🤔 I've been saying this for years, but not as eloquently.

[@Shakkarz]

The brother said case que sera que sera que sera that's messed up yo how he put it the Young producer or director whatever brother knowing that he's powerful sucker if I was Monique I would do the same thing

[@SM-kk4rx]

An award based on their standards

[@krystalharris1259]

What did Halle have to do in her movie??? Never seen monster's baller

[@blackpricelessllc.5376]

She mutted herself out!

[@cocoabuttaflyy]

Excellent video

[@garyAjames]

MoNique was dead on

[@pamelacarey2460]

Thank you Sir!

[@LilHellmanns]

"Charles Woods slave rebellion in the movies" Where is that video? Did you have to take it down?

[@thegrandcanyonisegypt2489]

I like this guy Hes sooo on point in everything he says Should have his own show☺️

[@lightroomalston7823]

SALUTE keep telling our stories

[@pamelacarey2460]

Wow

[@SoCleva]

Gosh when will the crying stop?

[@leejohnstone2387]

The first victim of the so called Oscar curse wasn't a African American actor. It was Clark Gable. We all know Clark Gable won his Oscar for Gone With The Wind back in 1939 and the last film he made before his death was The Misfit in 1951. Name the films he made in-between Gone With The Wind and the Misfits?

[@marydavis7978]

That's because he spoke up for Hattie McDaniel! Who wasn't allowed to attend the Oscar party!

[@darlenegoodwin]

Gable won for It Happened One Night in 1935 as a punishment from MGM.

[@okay5045]

F Murray Abraham won an Oscar for Amadeus his career went nowhere this is not a black thing necessarily