'Hair Love' writer-director-producer Matthew A. Cherry is the first former NFL player to win an Oscar. He is the second pro athlete to win after Kobe Bryant.
Based on a poem written to announce his NBA retirement, “Dear Basketball” was Bryant’s love letter to the game.
Onstage, Cherry said: “This award is dedicated to Kobe Bryant. May we all have a second act as great as his was.”on the other hand, is a loving look at black families. The film, which started as a Kickstarter project, is about a young black girl named Zuri who turns to her father for help styling her hair. It’s a film that celebrates black fathers and black natural hair.
"['Hair Love’] felt like a great opportunity to really shine the spotlight on black fathers, because so often in mainstream media they just get a bad rap,” CherryA former NFL wide receiver who had stints on the Jacksonville Jaguars, Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers and Baltimore Ravens, Cherry left the league in 2007 to pursue a film career.
“I always was interested in film,” Cherry told the Times in the earlier interview. “I always knew when I got done playing sports I’d get into filmmaking.“I just hope that inspires people to know that you can continue on and you can have more than one dream,” he added.
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