The Pictures: Black Carpet

Sheila Marikar

Four days before the Academy Awards, Russell Simmons’s newmedia company, All Def Digital, hosted its own movie-awards show, a D.I.Y. response to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign. “We were watching the controversy around the Oscars unfold, and it occurred to us that every Wednesday night, yards away from where the Oscars are held, we run a standup-comedy night,” Sanjay Sharma, All Def Digital’s president, said last week. Tony Rock, a younger brother of Chris Rock (this year’s Oscar host), emcees. The first thought was to do an Oscars-themed night, but “that quickly snowballed and took on a life of its own.” Sharma and his team put together the awards show in ten days, after making a quick deal with the Fusion network to air it opposite the Academy Awards. All Def’s standup show…

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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 7, 2016

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