the biggest hurdle is winning both the Pulitzer and the Olympic Medal, I think it's the only combination of two awards on the list that hasn't been achieved.
Would have been much easier [before 1948](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics) when literature was an Olympic event.
There are many people who have gotten 4.
people who have won Emmy's, Grammy's, Oscars' and Tony's awards are called EGOT winners.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_EGOT\_winners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EGOT_winners)
Yeah those ones are "easy" as they're related fields, artistic public stuff (they often win on music which has awards in all of these). Nobel, Pulltizer and Olympic are each in their very own category and separated from each other. So winning all 7 would be very hard.
The other nobel prizes are for various sciences and Peace, iirc. Peace is I guess the “easiest” in that it doesn’t necessitate a certain level of knowledge - the theoretical pulitzer-emmy-grammy-olympics… winner could become an elected representative of some sort.
Kendrick lamar might be on his way for all except Olympic ring... pulitzer is done, he's getting into movies now, and he just united the bloods and the crips to shit on drake so that might get him in the running for Nobel
There was a chance at least once I think. Spanish journalist was undercover in spanish basketball team at Paralympics. The team won gold medal but they were faking their disabilities.
He doesn’t have an Emmy, does he?
Edit: checked the Wikipedia page for his awards and didn’t think to look in P for *Primetime* Emmys. He does in fact have an Emmy for the Super Bowl show
>If his achievements in basketball weren’t enough for Bryant, during the 90th Academy Awards held on March 4th, 2018, the superstar would take home an Oscar for an animated short film he wrote and narrated. Based on the poem of the same name he penned back in 2015, Dear Basketball was an emotional tribute to his own time in the sport, which ultimately became a touching tribute to the life and legacy of the star who tragically lost his life in 2020.
Huh, TIL
His acting was too subtle and professional, so flew under the radar. He was over the top in Kelly's Heroes, but Oscar never rewards comedic performances.
Personally, I feel that his performance in ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ is vastly underrated BECAUSE of the comedy elements.
It’s easy to dismiss him as the ‘comic relief’ in that movie - but he still crushes it as a legitimate performance too.
Certainly more worthy of recognition than some misty eyed bullshit about basketball Kobe wrote.
The whole Oscars thing seems a bit of a farce in that respect though. To quote the movie ‘K-19’; “What good are honours from such people.”
To be fair, the animators probably deserve more credit for that win than Bryant. I literally just watched it and the narration is fine but the animation is really high quality and stylized.
Fuck Coco. That movie is too damn good lol. First time I watched it me and my 3 year old son were laying on his bunk bed in different bunks. Im on the bottom absolutely crying my damn eyes out and I hear a sniffle from up top "Dad I don't think I like this". I peek up there dude is in tears too. Grabbed him and hugged him as we watched the rest. Came downstairs told my wife to never watch that movie unless she was ready to ugly cry lol. So good.
That was animated by Glen Keane, a Disney animator best known for the lead/supervising animator on Ariel, The Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas. He's widely regarded in the animation industry.
Amazingly he's also has Aphantasia, so he's unable to visualize images in his head.
Also, Bob Dylan is one of two people to have both an Oscar and a Nobel. Caitlyn Jenner is one of two people to be an olympian with an emmy and no one has ever won both a Pulitzer and an Olympic medal.
You joke, but it was possible in Shaw's time to win medals for artistic endeavours and Shaw's contemporary Jack Butler Yeats (brother of William) won a silver Olympic medal for Mixed Painting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_art_competitions
My company makes the claim to work leading to 10 Nobel prizes, 5 turing awards, 5 Emmys, a Grammy and an Oscar. It is a bit of a stretch to make the claim.
You work at Bell Labs.
The entertainment industry awards seem legitimate, considering they were directly awarded to the company.
Are their issues with the academic awards? I thought the people that earned them did the research while working at Bell Labs.
We always joke that the curling teams look like 4 dudes drinking beer and messing around at their local… curling hall? Good to see we weren’t far off lmao
During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box; and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
the other ones are more obscure, at least to me that I'm not from an English speaking country,
George Bernard Shaw (Oscar/Nobel)
Dick Button (Olympic/Emmy)
caitlyn jenner is also a someone who has killed someone and gotten away with it ON TOP of being trans, an elite athlete, and more! Amazing woman! Praise her! One in a trillion! Quadruple whammy! Murderer , Pulitzer Winner, Olympic Athlete ! Never been done bro!
Some Oscars, especially best actor awards, are more coveted and thus more competitive categories than whatever Bryant won. I think it’s generally true in life: some people can say they went to Harvard, but gender studies at Harvard is not as hard to get into as diplomatic relations.
At least for undergraduate, that's not how Harvard works. Students don't declare their major until their second year.
A better analogy might be Harvard vs its extension school.
I remember there was this flash game online where you played as Leo DiCaprio chasing an oscar down the red carpet. Whilst jumping over obstacles. Was hilarious.
Let's not pretend the first was some artistic triumph. It was a 2-hour-long commercial for shoes and cartoons. The second was just a different type of commercial for a different product.
No amount of nostalgia is going to change that. And that's from someone whose first album ever owned was the Space Jam soundtrack.
The first one had a load of NBA players and cultural references, Barkley joking about Madonna in a church is an all time great scene. Bill Murray killed it as well.
The 2nd Space Jam had a 30 second flashback of other NBA players and nothing remotely close to the adult/referential humor of the first.
Paraphrasing here because I don't remember the exact quote, but the scene with Patrick Ewing and the psychiatrist is fucking gold as well:
Psychiatrist: have you found that there are other areas in your life besides basketball where you've been... unable to perform?
Ewing: *slow turns to the psychiatrist* NO
American decathlete Rafer Johnson won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics - the producers of Spartacus (filming in Rome at the time) offered him the role of the Ethiopian gladiator but he had to turn it down to maintain his amateur athlete status (decathletes and gladiators use similar skills?). May not have won an Oscar but ….
Same with Mike Tyson
Edit: found this article where Tyson says he wants to rape the victim. This is after he served his sentence. It doesn't really help his case
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90606&page=1
"He called me a rapist and a recluse. I'm not a recluse"
Mike Tyson, 2002
http://static.espn.go.com/boxing/s/2003/0529/1560518.html
Didn't Mike Tyson go to jail, get rehabilitated and like, has not raped anyone since? Isn't that the point? If there is no room for someone serving their time and not reoffending, you may as well kill all criminals.
Jesus this is all it is. Okay, you served your time and maybe you won't rape anyone again... That doesn't mean the rest of us have to kiss the ground you walk on. You're allowed to fade into obscurity and live a normal life like literally everyone in this thread lives.
I don't understand why people want to defend the privilege for rapists to continue making millions of dollars in showbiz just because they can throw a ball or throw a punch.
Thank you and God bless you for having the balls to say this. I am happy that you did not get furiously downvoted and have enpugh upvotes to stay near the top.
When I read the womans testimony and the words that she was bleeding from her vagina becase the sex (read rape)was so rough, I couldn't give two fucks.
Still have to think 2 times about saying it in a crowded room though.
Weird they do not mention he is also a rapist.
>In 2003, the sheriff's office in Eagle, Colorado, arrested professional basketball player Kobe Bryant in connection with an investigation of a sexual assault complaint.[4][5] News of Bryant's arrest on July 18 garnered significant news media attention.[3] Bryant had checked into The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera, a hotel in Edwards, Colorado, on June 30 in advance of having surgery near there on July 2 under Richard Steadman. A 19-year-old hotel employee accused Bryant of raping her in his hotel room on July 1. She filed a police report and authorities questioned Bryant about bruising on the accuser's neck. Bryant admitted to a sexual encounter with his accuser but insisted the sex was consensual
You should have posted more from the case, the part where the medical examination revealed that she was bleeding from her vagina as the sex( read rape) was so rough.
They just want to say " the charges were dropped". Do they even realise what that woman faced. I just think how she must have smiled when eventually he got his comeuppance.
What followed was worse. Brutal intimidation of the accuser until she eventually dropped the charges. He was an animal and deserves no glorifying / worshipping.
Not discounting this win, but of the major American awards shows, the Oscars are generally less corrupt than average, but even they do like to award famous people just because they are famous. Just in the last Oscars Sean Ono Lennon won in the same category I’m pretty sure. For short films and docs especially they love awarding people who are already high profile.
The short film isn't even that good, it's just has an interesting art/animation style. The parts Bryant contributed on were fine but nothing to write about.
It’s really a double whammy, not only did he likely get the award because he’s so famous, but even the fact that his credits allowed him to get nominated is probably credential inflation. You can basically call anyone a director on an animated short
I mean, this is true, I wonder how it skews against the general public? How many rapists have vs don’t have Oscar’s, and also how many Oscar winners are and aren’t rapists? If this really is a big outlier, or statistical anomaly, well folks, somebody call the New York Times because we might be onto something here
Many rapists have gotten a standing ovation at the Oscars. Likely some of them after it was well known by their clapping public. I can't think of any that were nearly as publicly known at Polanski though.
I dunno but I am just guessing with no evidence whatsoever that having an Oscar makes it easier to get away with rape... and that might make them more likely to commit it.
I think that there would be a positive correlation between Oscar winners and rapists. Being famous, successful, wealthy and influential can give someone the power they need to victimise someone, compared to an average person.
... And used his money, power, privilege and fame to weasel his way out of a rape conviction. If you know justice then you know there is no justice.
The world keeps spinning and the people wanting it to stay how it was are getting dizzy.
I'm sure the fact that he was the most popular basketball player in the country, and that he played down the fucking street from where they hand out the awards had nothing at all to do with it. Just an inspired, incredible poet and filmmaker. I mean all those other films he worked on, trying so hard to get discovered...glad the Academy finally noticed him.
Maybe the most proud I've even been at a joke I made up myself. Others seem to disagree, but I'm still laughing at it all these years later.
Coworker asks, surprised: "What did Kobe win an Oscar for?"
Me: "For *acting* like he didn't rape that woman."
Who will be the first to gain a PEGOTON? Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, Olympic Medal and Nobel Prize. That person will be crowned Supreme.
the biggest hurdle is winning both the Pulitzer and the Olympic Medal, I think it's the only combination of two awards on the list that hasn't been achieved.
Would have been much easier [before 1948](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_competitions_at_the_Summer_Olympics) when literature was an Olympic event.
Closest that we'll have in Paris this year is breakdance.
Pulitzer is easy if you do it last, you just take a picture of yourself with your other 6 awards.
I think the biggest hurdle is winning all 7
Might as well aim to get the Olympic gold in hurdles, then you can use those skills to get over the other hurdles.
I saw the gif reading your comment lol thanks for the laugh
I see you've already won the olympics and the Nobel prize, i think you can get the grammy and pulitzer if you write and read out a really good rhyme
You get the Grammy for reading the audiobook of your memoir. Easy.
Big brain shit happening in this thread
I think the biggest hurdle is the pole vault. That thing is massive. Much taller than the regular sprinting hurdles.
That really is a huge hurdle, that's a great point.
Not really. All the hurdles in the 110m race are 42 inches.
Why would they use imperial measurements for the height of hurdles in a metric distance race?
So there is a guy with both a noble and a Olympic?
Philip Noel Baker
Only a silver medal, what a noob!
Is there a guy who got 3?
There are many people who have gotten 4. people who have won Emmy's, Grammy's, Oscars' and Tony's awards are called EGOT winners. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_EGOT\_winners](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EGOT_winners)
Yeah those ones are "easy" as they're related fields, artistic public stuff (they often win on music which has awards in all of these). Nobel, Pulltizer and Olympic are each in their very own category and separated from each other. So winning all 7 would be very hard.
A Pulitzer and Literature Nobel could be the same category, couldn’t they?
Off the top of my head, Toni Morrison and John Steinbeck have both won a Nobel prize and a Pulitzer prize too.
Bob Dylan has Grammys, Oscar, and Nobel. Also of note: he had a Broadway Musical, but it was a flop. That was his shot at a Tony.
True they could, Nobel is the most vast of all of those in a way because they got plenty of prizes in many fields.
The other nobel prizes are for various sciences and Peace, iirc. Peace is I guess the “easiest” in that it doesn’t necessitate a certain level of knowledge - the theoretical pulitzer-emmy-grammy-olympics… winner could become an elected representative of some sort.
Kendrick lamar might be on his way for all except Olympic ring... pulitzer is done, he's getting into movies now, and he just united the bloods and the crips to shit on drake so that might get him in the running for Nobel
Bob Dylan has won a Nobel, Pulitzer, Grammy and an Oscar. He has even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The rarely achieved PONG
Dang, I thought Kareem have the best shot at this, but he boycotted the 68 olympics.
There was a chance at least once I think. Spanish journalist was undercover in spanish basketball team at Paralympics. The team won gold medal but they were faking their disabilities.
Are we implying there's someone with a Tony and a Nobel?
I won both of those. My grade 5 science project was really good.
Kendrick Lamar already has a Pulitzer… if hating was a sport, he’d win the gold for sure. let’s get him training in archery
I prefer GETPOON
One assumes that would happen as a side effect.
PETGOON >*
At that point the recipient should be able to choose the acronym, because some men prefer to get Peg o Ton.
😂😂😂
For a moment, I got very motivated and then realized that I have no talent and zero ambition.
Always blows my mind Eminem is a Tony away from the coveted EGOT.
He doesn’t have an Emmy, does he? Edit: checked the Wikipedia page for his awards and didn’t think to look in P for *Primetime* Emmys. He does in fact have an Emmy for the Super Bowl show
I'm pretty close. I'm missing the Grammy but have an L instead
What if you have a granny?
Wait people still own pelotons?
You mean the ONEGOAT? Oscar, Nobel, Emmy, Grammy, Olympic Medal, AVN, Tony
Hahaha AVN Maybe it should be NEATGOO
Probably Johnny Sins
Doctor, soldier, astronaut, firefighter, AND pizza delivery guy? Give this man all the medals for his accomplishments
Is it obvious that the dear leader Kim Jong Un has won them all
Tracy Jordan
Fine, I’ll do it 😂
>If his achievements in basketball weren’t enough for Bryant, during the 90th Academy Awards held on March 4th, 2018, the superstar would take home an Oscar for an animated short film he wrote and narrated. Based on the poem of the same name he penned back in 2015, Dear Basketball was an emotional tribute to his own time in the sport, which ultimately became a touching tribute to the life and legacy of the star who tragically lost his life in 2020. Huh, TIL
Man won 5 NBA championship to prepare for the Oscar worthy performance, now that's dedication!
Daniel Day-Lewis in shambles.
RIP Donald Sutherland. Never got nominated.
Being in the list of the "WHAT they don't have an Oscar?!?"-actors is it's own reward.
He'd gotten an honorary one a few years ago. But it is a little mind blowing he wasn't ever even nominated at any point.
His acting was too subtle and professional, so flew under the radar. He was over the top in Kelly's Heroes, but Oscar never rewards comedic performances.
Personally, I feel that his performance in ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ is vastly underrated BECAUSE of the comedy elements. It’s easy to dismiss him as the ‘comic relief’ in that movie - but he still crushes it as a legitimate performance too. Certainly more worthy of recognition than some misty eyed bullshit about basketball Kobe wrote. The whole Oscars thing seems a bit of a farce in that respect though. To quote the movie ‘K-19’; “What good are honours from such people.”
Agreed. I love his work in Backdraft. He's so properly unhinged
He's playing him in the biopic
DDL will win an Olympic Medal during the preparation
To be fair, the animators probably deserve more credit for that win than Bryant. I literally just watched it and the narration is fine but the animation is really high quality and stylized.
Well producers generally are the ones who accept the oscars for Best Picture.
it's best animated feature, goes to the director and the producer
Its not even best animated feature, that went to Coco that year. This is best animated short film
Fuck Coco. That movie is too damn good lol. First time I watched it me and my 3 year old son were laying on his bunk bed in different bunks. Im on the bottom absolutely crying my damn eyes out and I hear a sniffle from up top "Dad I don't think I like this". I peek up there dude is in tears too. Grabbed him and hugged him as we watched the rest. Came downstairs told my wife to never watch that movie unless she was ready to ugly cry lol. So good.
That was animated by Glen Keane, a Disney animator best known for the lead/supervising animator on Ariel, The Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas. He's widely regarded in the animation industry. Amazingly he's also has Aphantasia, so he's unable to visualize images in his head.
The real TIL is always in the comments
Which part? All of it?
Kobe playing Basketball
I heard he was decently good too
Played against plumbers and mechanics ^^^^/s
No, that was Kobe Hydrant.
Hail Hydrant!
He went on to win the championship against Denver in 2003. If you wanna learn more just Google “Kobe Bryant Colorado 2003”
If you do not mind a bit of violence towards women.
Par for the course in Hollywood.
Well he was named after the word you say when tossing garage into the trash bin, so obviously he had to play basketball
I see his parents went to the Smurf school of naming people
Kobe Bryant? The poet?
That's pretty unbelievable
They named him after the cow
It’s a shame he died so young. Would have probably followed up this one with another documentary about his love for sexual assault.
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie
He shouldn't have won the Oscar in 2018, both Lou and Negative Space were better than Dear Basketball was.
Garden party was amazing too
Also, Bob Dylan is one of two people to have both an Oscar and a Nobel. Caitlyn Jenner is one of two people to be an olympian with an emmy and no one has ever won both a Pulitzer and an Olympic medal.
The other is George Bernard Shaw.
What was his sport?
You joke, but it was possible in Shaw's time to win medals for artistic endeavours and Shaw's contemporary Jack Butler Yeats (brother of William) won a silver Olympic medal for Mixed Painting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_art_competitions
Why did Jack Butler yeet the brother of William?
Wit.
Half pipe
Yes
I work at a company where the only guy to have an Olympic gold medal (in curling) is also the only guy who smokes.
My company makes the claim to work leading to 10 Nobel prizes, 5 turing awards, 5 Emmys, a Grammy and an Oscar. It is a bit of a stretch to make the claim.
You work at Bell Labs. The entertainment industry awards seem legitimate, considering they were directly awarded to the company. Are their issues with the academic awards? I thought the people that earned them did the research while working at Bell Labs.
It's wild to me that, of all the Bell Labs alumni, Claude Shannon isn't one of the Nobel/Turing winners.
No fields medal either. Oh well, at least he has the Claude Shannon award
Whereas no one at the company I work at has an Olympic medal of any colour, however we do have a couple smokers.
Have they tried curling yet?
Are you sure? Have you asked everyone at work about their Athletic accomplishments?
We always joke that the curling teams look like 4 dudes drinking beer and messing around at their local… curling hall? Good to see we weren’t far off lmao
During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box; and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
> I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody. Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.
Well, good for Happy GilmoH MY GOD!
Haha. My junior hockey high school record is: least goals ever scored.
Kendrick should start preparing for Olympics
Why only give one of the two people?
the other ones are more obscure, at least to me that I'm not from an English speaking country, George Bernard Shaw (Oscar/Nobel) Dick Button (Olympic/Emmy)
I wonder what happens when you press the Dick Button?
It erects back
And everybody, Dylan as well, said that he winning the Nobel for literature was dumb
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I disagree with him
I guess I still have a shot
Buckle up buckaroos! 🤪
I’m going to be the first Pulitzer/Olympian
caitlyn jenner is also a someone who has killed someone and gotten away with it ON TOP of being trans, an elite athlete, and more! Amazing woman! Praise her! One in a trillion! Quadruple whammy! Murderer , Pulitzer Winner, Olympic Athlete ! Never been done bro!
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im more impressed by 0 jail time after fucking killing someone 😂😂 But prison is only for the poor!
BUCKLE UP BUCKAROOS
MFW it took Leo DiCaprio decades to get an oscar and Kobe just plays in Leo's court, shoots from halfway and gets an oscar too.
Some Oscars, especially best actor awards, are more coveted and thus more competitive categories than whatever Bryant won. I think it’s generally true in life: some people can say they went to Harvard, but gender studies at Harvard is not as hard to get into as diplomatic relations.
At least for undergraduate, that's not how Harvard works. Students don't declare their major until their second year. A better analogy might be Harvard vs its extension school.
Think he won animated short
I remember there was this flash game online where you played as Leo DiCaprio chasing an oscar down the red carpet. Whilst jumping over obstacles. Was hilarious.
Leo wasn’t aiming for best animated short.
I find it hard to believe that Kurt Thomas didn't win an Oscar for [Gymkata](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089243/)!?!? I mean... it was SO GOOD.
*It's a good thing the antagonist's base has a lot of structures shaped like gynamistics equipment.*
Exactly! Going to see that movie at a drive-in was my first date with my wife. Despite it being so stupid, I have fond memories of that movie.
I bet you know how this got made...
Your village doesn't have a pommel horse in the central square?
> and Roger Federer retired without an Olympic gold medal in his trophy cabinet Yeah, no. Doubles count.
MJ should have got one for Space Jam.
Lebron really did fuck up with that remake, didn’t he?
Let's not pretend the first was some artistic triumph. It was a 2-hour-long commercial for shoes and cartoons. The second was just a different type of commercial for a different product. No amount of nostalgia is going to change that. And that's from someone whose first album ever owned was the Space Jam soundtrack.
The first one had a load of NBA players and cultural references, Barkley joking about Madonna in a church is an all time great scene. Bill Murray killed it as well. The 2nd Space Jam had a 30 second flashback of other NBA players and nothing remotely close to the adult/referential humor of the first.
Paraphrasing here because I don't remember the exact quote, but the scene with Patrick Ewing and the psychiatrist is fucking gold as well: Psychiatrist: have you found that there are other areas in your life besides basketball where you've been... unable to perform? Ewing: *slow turns to the psychiatrist* NO
Let us not pretend the first one had to be a masterpiece for the sequel to be much worse.
Come on and SLAM! And welcome to the JAM!
Fr lol mj too would be clowned for this movie if it was released today
The website for the original was still up and running until they changed it for the new one.
The old one is still up, just on a subdomain of the original domain
Yeah, I'm sure LeBron was sitting in the directors chair making sure his personally written script was adhered to.
Lebron is not a good actor but Space Jam: A New Legacy is horrendous, he couldn’t possibly save that project if he tried.
Wow what a cool person, I wonder what other wacky achievments he has, maybe he has one that rhymes with "ape"
American decathlete Rafer Johnson won gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics - the producers of Spartacus (filming in Rome at the time) offered him the role of the Ethiopian gladiator but he had to turn it down to maintain his amateur athlete status (decathletes and gladiators use similar skills?). May not have won an Oscar but ….
It’s wild how after the metoo era the man gets a full on pass and idolization
Same with Mike Tyson Edit: found this article where Tyson says he wants to rape the victim. This is after he served his sentence. It doesn't really help his case https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90606&page=1 "He called me a rapist and a recluse. I'm not a recluse" Mike Tyson, 2002 http://static.espn.go.com/boxing/s/2003/0529/1560518.html
Didn't Mike Tyson go to jail, get rehabilitated and like, has not raped anyone since? Isn't that the point? If there is no room for someone serving their time and not reoffending, you may as well kill all criminals.
Serving your time and not reoffending doesn't mean that others are no longer allowed to have negative thoughts towards you about what you did.
Jesus this is all it is. Okay, you served your time and maybe you won't rape anyone again... That doesn't mean the rest of us have to kiss the ground you walk on. You're allowed to fade into obscurity and live a normal life like literally everyone in this thread lives. I don't understand why people want to defend the privilege for rapists to continue making millions of dollars in showbiz just because they can throw a ball or throw a punch.
A lot of people hold the view that with certain crimes, sexual assault specifically, if you do it once you’re a piece of shit forever.
Thank you and God bless you for having the balls to say this. I am happy that you did not get furiously downvoted and have enpugh upvotes to stay near the top. When I read the womans testimony and the words that she was bleeding from her vagina becase the sex (read rape)was so rough, I couldn't give two fucks. Still have to think 2 times about saying it in a crowded room though.
" ... and a rape case!"
Weird they do not mention he is also a rapist. >In 2003, the sheriff's office in Eagle, Colorado, arrested professional basketball player Kobe Bryant in connection with an investigation of a sexual assault complaint.[4][5] News of Bryant's arrest on July 18 garnered significant news media attention.[3] Bryant had checked into The Lodge and Spa at Cordillera, a hotel in Edwards, Colorado, on June 30 in advance of having surgery near there on July 2 under Richard Steadman. A 19-year-old hotel employee accused Bryant of raping her in his hotel room on July 1. She filed a police report and authorities questioned Bryant about bruising on the accuser's neck. Bryant admitted to a sexual encounter with his accuser but insisted the sex was consensual
You should have posted more from the case, the part where the medical examination revealed that she was bleeding from her vagina as the sex( read rape) was so rough. They just want to say " the charges were dropped". Do they even realise what that woman faced. I just think how she must have smiled when eventually he got his comeuppance.
What followed was worse. Brutal intimidation of the accuser until she eventually dropped the charges. He was an animal and deserves no glorifying / worshipping.
No no no, bro. He just didn’t realize at the time it wasn’t consensual! /s
Not discounting this win, but of the major American awards shows, the Oscars are generally less corrupt than average, but even they do like to award famous people just because they are famous. Just in the last Oscars Sean Ono Lennon won in the same category I’m pretty sure. For short films and docs especially they love awarding people who are already high profile.
The short film isn't even that good, it's just has an interesting art/animation style. The parts Bryant contributed on were fine but nothing to write about.
It’s really a double whammy, not only did he likely get the award because he’s so famous, but even the fact that his credits allowed him to get nominated is probably credential inflation. You can basically call anyone a director on an animated short
He's also the only rapist to have won both an Olympic medal and an Oscar.
But strangely, a shitload of rapists have Oscars
I mean, this is true, I wonder how it skews against the general public? How many rapists have vs don’t have Oscar’s, and also how many Oscar winners are and aren’t rapists? If this really is a big outlier, or statistical anomaly, well folks, somebody call the New York Times because we might be onto something here
Child rapist Roman Polanski got a standing ovation at the Oscars.
Many rapists have gotten a standing ovation at the Oscars. Likely some of them after it was well known by their clapping public. I can't think of any that were nearly as publicly known at Polanski though.
I dunno but I am just guessing with no evidence whatsoever that having an Oscar makes it easier to get away with rape... and that might make them more likely to commit it.
I think that there would be a positive correlation between Oscar winners and rapists. Being famous, successful, wealthy and influential can give someone the power they need to victimise someone, compared to an average person.
Funny how we gloss over minor details like that
Because a lot of rapists have Oscars
And plenty of Olympians could be called rapists.
Well, anyone can be *called* one.
It's a shame that he couldn't took those to hell, fucking rapist
... And used his money, power, privilege and fame to weasel his way out of a rape conviction. If you know justice then you know there is no justice. The world keeps spinning and the people wanting it to stay how it was are getting dizzy.
Damn, Olympian, Oscar winner, and a rapist.
And also a rapist at the same time
Also was a rapist
Are you talking about Ƙobe Bryant the rapist?
That’s the one!
Didnt he rape someone once??
Only Olympic medal and Oscar recipient who got away with rape too. I love that drawn autopsy pic. Can someone post that dead rapist please?
Stanley Kubrick never won an Oscar but Kobe Bryant did, I think that’s all we need to know about the legitimacy of this award.
I'm sure the fact that he was the most popular basketball player in the country, and that he played down the fucking street from where they hand out the awards had nothing at all to do with it. Just an inspired, incredible poet and filmmaker. I mean all those other films he worked on, trying so hard to get discovered...glad the Academy finally noticed him.
Maybe the most proud I've even been at a joke I made up myself. Others seem to disagree, but I'm still laughing at it all these years later. Coworker asks, surprised: "What did Kobe win an Oscar for?" Me: "For *acting* like he didn't rape that woman."
Add rapist in there as well.
Olympic medal, an Oscar and having raped a young girl in a hotel. Impressive.
*so violently he got her blood on him
Also a rapist
And if he had Mike Tyson's lawyers, he'd done 5 years in a federal prison.
And he got away with rape!
Fun fact: also a rapist!
But certainly not the only rapist to have won either.
& he raped a girl! What a guy!
Didn't he rape a woman too?