WASHINGTON: American actor Clint Eastwood has not returned his awards or said that Hollywood is “morally bankrupt”. Reuters reported that various social media accounts claimed that the actor has announced to return his awards. However, the posts originate from a satirical website.
“Clint Eastwood Returns All Six of His Oscars: ‘Hollywood is Morally Bankrupt,’” read the headline shared on different platforms of social media. Various comments under the posts include, “The actor may just have done his most heroic act.” Eastwood has won five Academy Awards, not six, as stated in the social media post.
The website describes itself, as a “one-stop destination for satirical news regarding the US,” saying that it is a subsidiary of the satire website SpaceXMania.com. There is no credible news that Eastwood has returned his Academy Awards.
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Representatives for Eastwood and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, did not issue any statement over the matter. Headlines showing that Clint Eastwood has returned his Academy Awards stem from a satire website.
