Famous actor Richard Gere is 76 years old and has played many roles in many cult films.

Richard Gere has received various awards and recognition for his work, including the Golden Globe for the 2002 film “Chicago”, but he has not won an Oscar. More precisely, he has never been nominated for this prestigious award.

Although there are many actors who have not been nominated for an Oscar, when it comes to Richard Gere, it is not at all because he did not deserve the nomination. The answer lies in the fact that the Academy banned this actor for 20 years.

Many did not know about this, and it all started in 1993, when Gere presented the award for the best art direction, which went to Luciana Arrighi and Ian Whittaker for the film “Howard’s End”.

Everything was fine, until Gere decided to ignore the script and criticize the Chinese government for its treatment of the people of Tibet. Richard is known as a follower of Tibetan Buddhism and has criticized the Chinese government for years, and what he did at the awards ceremony led to his being banned from the Oscars for the next 20 years, and also a lifetime ban from entering China.

Although he could not be nominated for this award, Gere still appeared at the Oscars twice after the ban. The first time was in 2003, when the movie “Chicago,” in which he starred, won the award for best picture, and the second time he appeared at the Oscars in 2013.

At that time, he sang “Everybody Needs a Best Friend” and presented the awards for best film score and best original song, which he did with his “Chicago” co-star Renée Zellweger, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta Jones.

“I seem to have been rehabilitated. It seems that if you’ve been away long enough, they forget you’ve been banned,” Richard said at the time with a laugh.

This threatened to seriously jeopardize Richard Gere’s career, as he was not getting roles in major Hollywood films, and as he said, this was a consequence of the financial relationship between Hollywood and China. /tesheshi.com/

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Source: prizrenpost