Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres has issued an apology for wearing blackface in a comedy sketch 17 years ago.. The "I'm Still Here" star, 59, in a statement to Deadline on Sunday acknowledged that ...

Oscar watchers set Twitter aflame over Billy Crystal's skit during the opening of last night's Academy Awards ceremony which featured the comedian in blackface. During the filmed montage parodying ...

Oh, right, and 3: No one really does blackface anymore. Crystal did it when he played Davis on "Saturday Night Live" in the '80s, but what somehow airs on a late night show nearly three decades ...

The Oscars have grappled with blackface controversy before, directly and indirectly. When Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony in 2012, he was denounced for his impersonation of Sammy Davis Jr., ...

“Almost 20 years ago, I appeared in blackface in a comedy sketch from a Brazilian TV show,” the Oscar-nominated “I’m Still Here” actress said to Deadline. “I am very sorry for this.

The first major motion picture, D. W. Griffith’s 1915 “Birth of a Nation,” used blackface to depict African American villainy at the same time that it romanticized the Ku Klux Klan. The film ...

Raise your hand if you expected a blackface controversy at this year's Oscars.Host Billy Crystal's opening montage featured the bizarre inclusion of his Sammy Davis Jr. character during a ...

Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres has apologised after a sketch of her in blackface has resurfaced. The Brazilian star recently received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for I'm Still Here ...

Oscar nominee Fernanda Torres, pictured here at the Golden Globes earlier this month, has apologized for appearing in blackface (inset) on a Brazilian television show 17 years ago.

The controversies marring this year's Oscars race — including racism on screen and online, and the questionable use of A.I. — bear a striking and sobering similarity to current American politics.

Billy Crystal’s Oscar Blackface: Sammy Davis, Jr.’s Daughter ‘100 Percent Certain My Father Is Smiling’ (Exclusive) Tracey Davis, daughter of the late Rat Packer, also tells THR that her ...

The week that Barack Obama was sworn in as the nation’s first black president, the talented Robert Downey Jr. received an Oscar nomination for his role in the late-summer flick Tropic Thunder ...