![]() ![]() I’m gonna be nominated for an Oscar one day. His producing credits include “BlacKkKlansman” Cherry has also directed episodes of “Black-ish,” “Whiskey Cavalier” and “The Red Line.”įollowing his win, a tweet resurfaced from 2012 in which Cherry predicted: He dedicated the award to the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, also an athlete-turned-Oscar winner, saying: “May we all have a second act as great as his was.”Ĭherry grew up in Chicago and was a football standout at Loyola Academy before moving on to play college ball at the University of Akron (Ohio), where he graduated as the school’s all-time leading receiver.Īfter retiring from football in 2007, Cherry headed to Hollywood. “‘Hair Love’ was done because we wanted to see more representation in animation, we wanted to normalize black hair,’” Cherry said in his acceptance speech. Cherry and his co-producer Karen Rupert Toliver were honored for “Hair Love,” a seven-minute film about an African American dad struggling to style his young daughter’s hair. ![]()
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