Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Norbit’s Oscar Buzz
Posted by Bossip Staff
You read that correctly. “Norbit” is in the runnings for an Oscar. The film is being considered for a nomination in Best Makeup. We always knew Eddie would turn heads in drag.
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Who cares about Will smiths religion? and he looks very handsome right there
What about the klumps, that was way better makeup than norbit.
And this is no consolation for not giving Eddie the Oscar for dreamgirls.
Why do i suddenly have a craving for cottage cheese? YUCK!
Who cares? Non story Bossip.
that ***** look nasty
I’m surprise this movie is still in the running for an oscar
I HAVE YET TO SEE THAT MOVIE…
I think the makeup – the fatness – was pretty good.
504..THE MOVIE WAS HARD TO WATCH….BUT THE SAD THING IS, IF U GO TO BLACK BIKER WEEKEND, U WILL SEE A CHICK LOOKING JUST LIKE THIS…(maybe without the hat cause u know her weave gone be 3 miles high)
He should have been received an oscar for the nutty professor movies.
I really liked the movie I know alot of people or critics didn’t but i thought it was good! just my opinion thought and they really did do a great job on him
A lot of people didnt like this film, but I thought it was one of his funniest…
See what I’m talking about, they will give a black man an oscar for wearing drag, but not for a role like dream girl which his tranny loving ***** played the hell out of. the gay mafia in hollyweird needs to run out of town. rarely do they give oscars based on cl*****ical performance by blacks, but do some damn jiggaboo movie and your ***** is a shoe in. calling Tyler gay ***** Perry!!
O.k….I was hungry for some brunch but yall just spoiled my appetite..looking at that cellulite even though I know it’s makeup and ***** but damn……
Martin lawrence more respectable. mr. murphy and him in a movie that’d be a great showing. team of major box office paper. lets get it done bossip
eddie murphy used to be crazy funny back in the day the movie was wack
Norbit was wack thats why it can only receive a nomination for best makeup…
@ Bones Jordan LOOK! *****IES! Ya wann suck em? huh? Ya wanna suck them big ol tattas Bones?
If you saw the movie…all I think of is “Mam, do you have on bottoms?? ROTFLMAO!!!
This is some Bullish. They just setting Eddie up for a fall, like when they hyped him about Dreamgirls.
That movie was really stupid a little funny but overall stupid
WELL, I ACTUALLY LIKED (BRACE YOURSELF) BOWFINGER….LMAO SO I MIGHT LIKE NORBIT….I’LL WAIT TIL IT COMES ON BASIC CABLE
Puh-leese.
These “black films” are a disgrace to real black people living in the real world. How can anyone watch this mess?
Why do brothas (Tyler Perry, Eddie Murphy etc…) have to dress up as MAMMY black women to get a laugh?
Sick and played out. NEXT.
So now the academy wants to give another Oscar to a “black movie” and it has to be Norbit?! How embarr*****ing.
OOOOHHHHH I”M SLIDDDDDIIINNNNNNGGG!!!!!!!!
They musta been running out of shyt to nominate. Because if this is the case, Coming to America should have one an award. I still don’t know how they turned Eddie into an old jewish guy.
Of course.. white america loves anything that instills and keeps the stereotypes alive!!!
those awards are not really for us anyway.. never were. they just got hip and noticed that if some black things are nominated we might watch which more rating and money for them.
that is all we are to them ratings and money!!!!!!
If you saw the movie…all I think of is “Mam, do you have on bottoms?? ROTFLMAO!!!
DEAD!!!!!..that is sooooo funny!
I love Norbit!
i know that photo is suppose to be funny but why i’m not laughing
This is embarr*****ing to black people. The fact that they even nominated such a crap movie makes me believe that their intentions are to perpetuate stereotypes.
dat looks just like me!
As a Big Girl, I think Norbit should win!!! They was on point with every bump, fold, dimple, & roll! I swear he used a body double… I wasn’t ready for Rasputia’s jelly. Plus Eddie really looked like an Asia man… The make up & special effects in his movies are all ways the shyt! He should win one… Plus Norbit was funny as hell… “How You Durin” *sniggles* Too bad he is a ***** & he won’t win.
On the real, some times we need to realax. The movie is stereotypical, but what movie isn’t… When was the last time Jackie Chan did a movie without karate? When was the last time a Pamala Anderson type was used as the smart ugly girl? It was a comedy & the shyt was hilarity! Is it stereotypical for her to be having a fling with Busta Move Jenkins (Power Tap)? No most folks think big blocks get no love… & Rasputia was beating Norbit’s *****… Have a beer, watch the movie, and have a laugh or two… This is our Shallow Hal (fat girl movie for white folks). “Ma’am do you have on bottoms” OMGosh, ROTMFF Bree… That was my favorite part. If I rocked a kini, I would have to lift my belly to see the bottoms too… He need to win for that scene alone… It was so realistic.
Martin lawrence more respectable. mr. murphy and him in a movie that’d be a great showing. team of major box office paper. lets get it done bossip
Um, Lawrence and Murphy did do a movie together. It was called “Life”.
he deserved the oscar for dreamgirls, and even nutty professor like some others have said, but for NORBIT hell no! it wasn’t even a good movie, and the female character he played was so damn evil that it wasn’t funny. just because he looked the part doesn’t mean that it was a great performance. and i’m usually a fan of his work (i was *****ed when he didn’t win last year!!)
I just wanna know what big girl rejected Eddie Murphy in his early life. He can’t seem to let it go!
Believe me when I tell you that he didn’t wear the make up that much and he NEVER wore a body suit. It was a real person and just added his face to the body with CGI. So while the makeup was very good he didn’t wear as much as some people thought
Chelle: The reason this was NOT our (by “our” I mean “Black Folks”) Shallow Hal was because there was no point to Norbit. Eddie Murphy portrayed the big girl as horrible as possible. She was ugly, mean, a cheater, ignorant, evil, and she was also dark skinned. While Kate was beautiful, kind, faithful, intelligent and comp*****ionate…and she happened to be light skinned. I think Eddie was making a point. This is a reflection of how he sees black women. I also watched Shallow Hal…and in my opinion that was a good flick because there was a message…a lesson about beauty being only skin deep. The character Rosemary in Shallow Hal was beautiful primarily because of her spirit, her intelligence, her love for her people, and children…and in the end, irrespective of her weight, Hal realized she was beautiful on the outside too. Name one good message from Norbit? Blacks were portrayed as pimps, hustlers, crooks, con men, etc. Rasputia was portrayed in the worst possible light…and unfortunately because of the Kate character (Thandie Newton), there’s a clear parallel drawn between light-skinned black women and dark skinned black women. Unfortunately, it’s the same stereotype that has been perpetuated since slavery times. And it doesn’t help that Eddie dates primarily light skinned black women (Nicole Murphy, Scary Spice, Tracey Edmonds, etc.). In my opinion Eddie has a clear disdain for darker skinned, overweight black women. It’s unfortunate but true. I hope Eddie uses his talent and fame to send more positve messages to young people…black and white. The fact is that the media is responsible for a great deal of the negative stereotypes about blacks and young white children can grow up with the wrong ideas about blacks which can shape their perceptions of Blacks throughout their lives. And even more importantly the media helps shape young black children’s perceptions about themselves. Which is why we need to be more responsible with the messages we are sending to our youth. Norbit was a BIG NO-NO.
Of course I should clarify that as artists we should be careful about the messages we send to the youth…black, white, asian, latino, etc…whatever the race!