Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
The elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Dill, Douglas received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations.
#EmmysSoWhite: Snoop Dogg Joins 50 Cent & Others In Criticizing Awards After Actors Of Colour Shut Out Of Wins In Major Categories
etcanada.comThe Emmys are coming in for some serious criticism after Sunday night’s ceremony. Despite record diversity among the nominees, all 12 major acting prizes at the 73rd Emmy Awards on Sunday night went to white stars, prompting #EmmysSoWhite to trend on Twitter.
RELATED: 2021 Primetime Emmy Award: The Complete Winners List Host Cedric the Entertainer joked during the show’s opening, “The good news is there are a lot of Black people nominated tonight.
Like my dawg Anthony Anderson… This is Anthony’s 11th nomination, but tonight he’s up against Michael Douglas and ‘Ted Lasso’.
So good luck, partner, but I gotta say, looks like it’s still hard out here for a pimp.” Among the night’s acting winners were Kate Winslet for “Mare of Easttown”, Olivia
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