Sunday (March 10) marked the date of the 2024 Oscars, however it’s additionally Mom’s Day within the U.Ok. And through Dave Mullins and Brad Booker’s emotional finest animated quick win for WAR IS OVER! Impressed by the Music of John & Yoko, Sean Ono Lennon — the son of Yoko Ono and late Beatles legend John Lennon — made certain to provide his mother an additional particular shout-out.
Ono Lennon, who served as an govt producer on the quick movie, took the stage at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles alongside Mullins and Booker. After each the director and producer gave their acceptance speeches, Sean squeezed in a tribute to Yoko Ono — though the “wrap-it-up” music was already enjoying.
“My mom turned 91 this February,” he informed the gang. “Can everybody say ‘completely happy Mom’s Day to Yoko’?”
At his request, the viewers in entrance of him wished the “Give Peace a Likelihood” artist a contented vacation in unison.
Sean is Ono and John Lennon‘s solely baby, born in 1975. The famed artist can also be mother to a daughter, Kyoko Chan Cox, whom she shares together with her ex-husband, movie producer Anthony Cox, whereas John additionally had son Julian Lennon from his marriage to first spouse Cynthia.
In line with IMbD, WAR IS OVER! — which Sean co-wrote with Mullins — is about at a World Battle I entrance, the place “a service pigeon delivers strikes messages between two troopers enjoying a chess sport, unaware they’re on reverse sides.”
Ono and her late husband collaborated numerous occasions earlier than Lennon was fatally shot in 1980, notably on “Glad Xmas (Battle Is Over).” The monitor has gone down in historical past as a basic Christmas tune, reaching its newest peak of No. 38 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in 2022 — greater than 50 years after it was first launched.
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