The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced they’ll no longer be honoring Kevin Spacey with the 2017 International Emmy Founders Award.
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The decision comes following out actor Anthony Rapp’s allegations that Spacey sexually assaulted him when he was fourteen years old:
The International Academy has announced that in light of recent events it will not honor Kevin Spacey with the 2017 Intl Emmy Founders Award
— Intl Emmy Awards (@iemmys) October 30, 2017
According to The Hollywood Reporter:
“Previous winners include directors Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner and former Sony CEO Howard Stringer,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Uber-producer Shonda Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal) was last year’s International Emmy Founders award winner.”
In other Kevin Spacey-related news, Trevor Noah effectively ripped into the disgraced actor with the following blistering monologue:
DCguy
Time for a bunch of brand new accounts to come in here to troll and defend Spacey and talk about how it’s all the victims fault.
Navalator
The Academy is run by a bunch of gutless hypocritical morons.
rdb2010
Perhaps we should concentrate more on preventing such actions in the future.
doug105
While I have little doubt of his guilt should things like this wait till after a fair trial and a conviction?
Brian
Giving out an award? I’m pretty sure that’s not covered under constitutional rights. And I’m even more sure that Kevin Spacey won’t be showing his face at any more awards ceremonies, especially this one. His career is quite over.
Although it would be fun to watch if they did decide to still give him the award, even in absentia.
doug105
Ps, isn’t it time to get a real comment system?
Brian
You don’t like having to go back through the website and opening every story again just to see if anyone responded?
jayjay333
Yes, we can all agree what he did was wrong but he is an amazing actor and you can criticize him for what he has done in his personal life but I don’t think it has to negate his achievements as an actor. He was never arrested for his alleged attack. If he was, that would and should affect his employment but none of that happened. All of these alleged events happened outside of work and he has never had similar incidents in the workplace since then
Hollywood has known about Spacey’s and Weinsteins bad behavior for a very long time and did nothing but now that it becomes public they want to make themselves look good and rip him to shreds and then every other person looking for fame will jump on the Spacey/Weinstein bandwagon and claim they were harassed as well even though they were merely patted on the head or given a hug.
Brian
“and he has never had similar incidents in the workplace since then”
I’m sure that isn’t true. People are starting to come out of the woodwork, give it a week or two and he’ll have a list of accusers almost as long as Harvey.
inbama
So far it’s only friends of people who had some kind of bad experience with Spacey, and it’s all so vague, you can’t even tell the sex of the alleged victim.
But hey, don’t ask questions or some self-righteous Roy Cohn wannabee will call you a child molester.
DCguy
Yeah! My Barista is incredibly talented, nobody makes a cup of coffee like he does. So he really should still get “Emoloyee of the Month” even though everybody found out that he beats his wife and recruits Nazi sympathizers through the coffee shop.
However, I DO get your point about Hollywood knowing and now pretending to be shocked.
Kieran
Will Bill Cosby’s emmys be revoked as well?