As predicted, comedienne-actress Mo’Nique took home Oscar gold for her role as Mary Jones in the film Precious. Mo’Nique was nominated and won in the category of Best Supporting Actress. Mo’Nique now makes the 5th African-American woman to win an Oscar for acting. Recognizing the fact, Mo’Nique paid homage to Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American woman to win an Oscar, by wearing a flower in her hair, as did McDaniel, and giving mention of the trailblazer in her acceptance speech.

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In the weeks leading up to the Oscars (March 7th), comedian-actress Mo’Nique continues to rake in the awards for her role as Mary Jones in the film Precious. This time around, Mo’Nique won Best Supporting Actress award at this year’s BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards. The event was held on Sunday (February 21st) at The Royal Opera House in London.

While Mo’Nique wasn’t in attendance for the award show, another one of her co-stars got to hit the red carpet.

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This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced and the critically acclaimed film, Precious has racked up 6 nominations.

Those nominations include: Best Picture - Precious, Best Director – Lee Daniels – Precious, Best Actress – Gabourey Sidibe - Precious, Best Supporting Actress – Mo’Nique – Precious, Best Film Editing – Precious and Best Adapted Screenplay- Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious.

Director-Producer Lee Daniels certainly has the midas touch. The first film he produced, Monster’s Ball (2001), won Halle Berry the Read the rest of this entry »

Comedian/actress Mo’Nique is on a roll this award season. So far, she’s won the Best Supporting Actress award 3 times over this weekend alone for her role in the film Precious. First at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (January 15), then at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (January 16) and now last night (January 17) at the Golden Globes.

Mo’Nique’s chances of winning Oscar gold seem even greater now.

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Comedian/actress Mo’Nique took home the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Precious at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards in Hollywood on Friday night (January 15). She was aglow dressed in a flattering black number with makeup by Sam Fine.

After the award show, Mo’Nique took time to answer press questions. When asked by one reporter if she was concerned the backlash from the black community against the film would hurt its Oscar chances, Mo’Nique shot back “there was backlash in the black community? I knew nothing about that brother. Did you see the numbers at the box office the first weekend? That had a lot to do with the black community?” Mo’Nique further stated, “I think the black community was really satisfied. I think the white community, the Asian community, I think the world as a whole was satisfied with this movie. Now, if you speak about a handful of people, you can never please everybody, can you? So, I think this movie as a whole, people were really satisfied.”

Somebody is always trying to rain on a sista’s parade and throw the black community under the bus in the process. smh.

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