20 Amazing Kobe Bryant Facts You Should Know

Kobe Bryant Won An Academy Award

Kobe Bryant actually took home an Oscar. He won the Academy Award in 2018 for the animated short story category for “Dear Basketball.” The entire short animated feature is based on Bryant’s letter that he wrote in the Players’ Tribune in 2015. In this letter he announced that he would leave basketball due to the fact that his body could no longer take the “grind of the season.”

After he won the Academy Award, he had credited both Shonda Rhimes and Oprah Winfrey as they had helped with advice towards starting a studio. He also credited his beautiful girl Gianna, saying that she gave him the motivation to carry on as a filmmaker. She had told him, “Well, Dad, you always tell us to go after your dreams, so man up.”