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The Jazz, who hold the best record in the NBA and were off Sunday night, tweeted congratulations to Conley. "Guys in the locker room were giving me grief about it the other day, just like, 'You might win an Oscar before you win a championship' " Conley said in an interview with CBS Los Angeles before the Oscars. "I was like, hey if I could win both, that'd be great, but obviously an Oscar was not something I thought I'd ever be a part of."
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will include a tribute to the late basketball icon Kobe Bryant during the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 9. “We can confirm that he will be acknowledged in the telecast,” an Academy representative told Variety. Bryant will be included in the In Memoriam montage of film world figures who have died since the last Oscar ceremony, and there may also be a separate tribute planned outside of the montage, sources said.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is planning to acknowledge the death of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant at the 2020 Oscars ceremony on Feb. 9, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Although Bryant's basketball accomplishments overshadowed his film efforts, he was an Oscar winner for his five-minute autobiographical short film Dear Basketball. The Los Angeles Laker great wrote, executive produced and lent his voice to the project, which won the best animated short Oscar at the 2018 ceremony.
Kobe Bryant's trophy collection just keeps getting bigger. The five-time NBA champion's animated short film, Dear Basketball, won a Sports Emmy Award on Tuesday night for Outstanding Post-Produced Graphic Design. Dear Basketball also won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the Academy Awards in March. "As basketball players, we're really supposed to shut up and dribble," Bryant said on stage as he accepted the Oscar. "I'm glad we do a little bit more than that." Backstage, he said, "I feel better than winning a championship. ... It's crazy."
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Add an Oscar to Kobe Bryant’s lengthy list of wins. The five-time NBA championship winner has earned a new piece of hardware: an Oscar for Best Animated Short. “As basketball players we’re really supposed to shut up and dribble. I’m glad we’re doing much more than that,” Bryant said in his acceptance speech, referencing controversial comments by Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham. He also thanked the Academy, composer John Williams, and his wife and daughters.
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