Octavia Spencer and Diddy Take Home Oscars

February 27th, 2012 - By Brande Victorian

Source: Digital Spy

Award season has come to a close with a couple of big wins for African Americans in the industry. At last night’s 84th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, Octavia Spencer took home an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in “The Help.”

Octavia was moved to tears by the win, thanking the Academy for putting her with “the hottest guy in the room,” and also shouting out her family in her home state of Alabama, her LA family, and of course, her “Help” family.

Speaking of “The Help,” Cast mate Viola Davis who was up for an Academy Award for Best Leading Actress lost to Meryl Streep for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in “Iron Lady,” but the Oscar contender still made a statement. Taking her husband’s hair advice, Viola showed up au natural in an emerald Vera Wang gown and looked stunning on the red carpet.

In a surprising win, Diddy also garnered an Oscar last night for “Undefeated.” Diddy was the executive producer behind the high school football film and the Academy recognized the work with an award for Best Documentary. Diddy—shockingly—didn’t hit the stage to accept the award with the other members of the production team, but he did tweet his own form of an acceptance speech, writing: “Holy s***!!!! God is the greatest!!!! Thank you! #undefeated !!!!”

Check out Octavia Spencer’s emotional acceptance speech here. Did you catch last night’s ceremony?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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  • Nehes999

    oh yeah, octavia REALLY reached way down deep in the depth of her being to conjure up this sassy, flip mouth maid right??? negroes are still confused in 2012 and the WHOLE world knows it!!! SMH

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  • Ms_Sunshine9898

    I wanted Viola Davis to win so bad, but come on let’s be real. When they said she was up against Meryl Streep I was like she’s not gonna win. They’re going to let that woman win again for the 18th time in a row. . .

    • MissK

      Meryl won her 3rd Oscar last night. She was nominated 17 times. Viola did a fantastic job in The Help, but you’re right about Meryl being a force to reckon with! 

  • Cpalwaysjc6

    I am excited for Octavia Spencer for winning the award.  But, it is the same game plan.  She will not be getting tons of  scripts that will be coming her way.  Look what happened to Halle Berry who won best actress.  Since she has won the award, she has not been getting script stacking up at her door.  The same way for Monique.  She has not been getting offers at her doorstep.  So, it is the same game plan for blacks everytime somebody black win these “so called ” oscars.  I don’t even waste my time to watch the show. 

    • Love_Sexy

      Agree!

  • Ford

    Octavia was great in The Help (a movie I didn’t like) so I’m glad she won. Meryl Streep was mesmerizing as Thatcher in The Iron Lady and deserved to win Best Actress after 17 nominations.

  • greygoose125

    Octavia and Viola were nominated in separate (supporting/lead) categories and both gave great performances in The Help, but Octavia deserved the Oscar. However, I thought Meryl Streep deserved the award for her performance in The Iron Lady – in that movie, you saw her morph into Margaret Thatcher – incredible performance.

  • Shan

    Your comment makes no sense at all. If you wanted Viola to have won an award that’s all you had to say but how does Octavia winning take away from Viola winning? She swept every single major award show in this category. This category was the only one that was undisputed. All the other categories were up in the air. Even when you hear the crowd when she won, all of her peers where genuinely happy for her because they all believe she was deserving. So evidently the people who work in this industry for a living respectfully disagree with you.

    • Shan

      Also surely you are not serious that she won because she fell 2 weeks ago. You realize she won the SAG and the Golden Globe right? Before falling?

      • LisaLuvless

        When have I ever stated I would care if people disagree or agree with me, its my comment/opinion. If anyone was going to win an Oscar for this movie it should have been Viola.
        The last bit was clearly a joke, but if you want to act like I shat in your pie,that’s cool too.

        • Shan

           Okay and again, you didn’t say if anyone was going to win for the movie it should have been Viola. You said that Octavia didn’t deserve hers. It’s a non-sequitor. Instead of tearing her down we should celebrate her accomplishment. It’s a feat that is very hard to reach in Hollywood and her life long dream. But no worries, I’m def not worried about you “shatting” in my pie, whatever that means. If it means what I think it means it seems like you’re acting like Octavia shat in yours. . .

          • LisaLuvless

            You’re unhappy with semantics which is unnecessary, I can comment in any manner I please, I don’t think she deserved an Oscar and I also said I loved her in the movie. I’m still sticking to that. I have nothing against the woman,but you clearly have an issue with me expressing myself on a public forum.

  • Kye92

    @ddd6502294a7aab66690cae760d7ce0a:disqus , Viola Davis wasn’t nominated for Best Supporting Actress, She was nominated for Best Leading Actress so the two weren’t up against each other, I think she did deserve the Oscar that she was nominated for though.

  • LisaLuvless

    : deep breath : … Ok,I’m going to say it,people might get mad but imma just put it out there. Octavia did NOT deserve this Oscar, it should have went to Viola Davis. She only provided the comic relief to the movie so it wouldn’t come off too serious and stir hate within people while as they watched. I loved what she did,but..Oscar worthy?Nope.

    I feel like she won because she fell HARD the other day when they were doing some promo or red carpet, I told my friend right after that she was going to win.. Then it happened.

    • Neecee401

      If Octavia and Viola were going against each other in the same category then I would agree with you. But Viola was nominated for Best Actress, so you can’t really say “Octavia did NOT deserve this Oscar, it should have went to Viola Davis.” Octavia was going up against the other nominees in the Best Supporting Actress category, and that’s what its judged by. That’s why she won. She did the best acting out of all those ladies in that category.

      • LisaLuvless

        I completely understand that. I wasn’t talking about categories, I just wish the oscar went to Viola instead,however they fit it.

    • guest

      They were not nominated in the same cateogory so each lady could have won.

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