WILL SMITH BANNED FROM OSCARS FOR 10 YEARS OVER SLAP

  • 09/04/2022

Will Smith, who stormed the stage at the 2022 Oscars to smack Chris Rock immediately before winning best actor, has been barred from attending the Oscars and all other Academy events for ten years, the Academy's Board of Governors determined on Friday.


 “I accept and respect the Academy’s decision,” Smith said in a statement following the announcement. 

The decision comes following a meeting that had initially been scheduled for April 18, before Academy president David Rubin  rescheduled it earlier this week. After Smith resigned from the Academy last Friday, as Rubin wrote in his letter to board members, “suspension or expulsion are no longer a possibility, and the legally prescribed timetable no longer applies. It is in the best interest of all involved for this to be handled in a timely fashion.” 

The ripple effect of Smith’s actions has extended far beyond the Academy itself. Netflix has reportedly moved an upcoming Smith project to the back burner, and Apple TV+, a fresh best-picture winner for CODA, will face tough choices on how to handle their upcoming film Emancipation, in which Smith plays a man escaping slavery. 

In addition to his Academy resignation statement and his rambling best-actor acceptance speech, Smith has also posted a statement to Instagram apologizing to Rock and the Academy. Rock, other than a quick aside at the beginning of a recent standup set in Boston, has yet to comment on the event publicly

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