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Could Will Smith be stripped of Oscar? Academy pressured to act after violent on-stage assault over joke

March 28, 2022 | | Print Article

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Rumors are circulating that actor Will Smith may be stripped of his Oscar after walking up to comedian Chris Rock on stage Sunday and brutally slapping him for making a joke about his wife’s hair.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is under pressure to take back the Oscar that Smith received for Best Actor following the violation of its code of conduct established after the “Me Too” movement surfaced.

“The Academy does not condone violence of any form. Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world,” the Academy tweeted following the event.

Jada Pinkett-Smith has been open about suffering from alopecia, a form of hair loss, for years now. She reportedly appeared upset and affronted after Rock’s joke.

The comic’s joke evidently hit a nerve. It appeared at first that Will Smith laughed at the comedian referring to his wife as GI Jane 2 but spiraled out of control when the actor stormed the stage and violently slapped Rock across the head.

Most of the media censored the exchange but the Japanese aired the clip in full. In context, the back and forth was by far uglier than the media presented it to be.

“Oh, wow! Wow! Will Smith just smacked the sh*t out of me,” Rock said as the audience laughed.

He added, “Wow, dude. It was a GI Jane joke.”

“Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth,” Smith said twice from his seat.

Rock responded, “I’m going to. That’s the greatest night in the history of television.”

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After the assault, the audience went dead silent. No one was sure whether the incident was real or staged. Evidently, it was all too real.

Rock was apparently staggered by the attack but did his best to compose himself and carry on.

Denzel Washington and Tyler Perry reportedly took Smith aside to calm him down after the incident. Smith’s rep ran to his side as the actor sat back down with his wife. The show’s producer Will Packer also raced over to Smith and spoke with him.

(Video Credit: Entertainment Tonight)

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Producers are now being forced into a tough decision over how to deal with the assault. Smith has not received his Best Actor statuette yet and there is a strong possibility that he never will after this.

Normally, if someone had pulled a stunt like this, he would have been removed by security guards. But the larger-than-life actor was permitted to stay as if the altercation had not even happened. The LAPD were informed but no complaint was filed.

“LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report,” a statement asserted. “If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”

Smith’s publicist spoke with him during the final commercial breaks of the Oscars broadcast. The ads were hastily inserted as producers reportedly tried to deal with the chaos that ensued after the assault. Journalists were told not to ask any of the actors about the slap that was televised around the world.

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Fifteen minutes after Smith smacked Rock, he took to the stage to accept his Oscar, weeping at the honor. He was given the award for Best Actor in his movie, “King Richard.” Smith attempted to link his violent outburst to his character in the movie as someone who “defended his family.” He also apologized to the Academy and the nominees for the incident although that may fall short of saving his Oscar.

He remarked in his acceptance speech that Denzel Washington told him “that at his ‘highest moment, that’s when the devil comes for you.'” Adding, “In this business, you got to be able to have people disrespecting you. You’ve got to smile and pretend like that’s okay.”

“I want to be a vessel for love. I want to say thank you to Venus and Serena. Thank you for entrusting me with your story. That’s what I want to do. I want to be an ambassador of that kind of love, and care and concern,” Smith hollowly claimed.

“It’s basically assault. Everyone was just so shocked in the room, it was so uncomfortable” one unnamed executive told the New York Post. “I think Will would not want to give his Oscar back, but who knows what will happen now.”

“He could have killed him. That’s pure out-of-control rage and violence. They’ve heard a million jokes about them in the last three decades. They are not freshman in the world of Hollywood and comedy. He lost his mind,” director Judd Apatow angrily stated.

“In addition to achieving excellence in the field of motion picture arts and sciences, members must also behave ethically by upholding the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity, inclusion, and a supportive environment that fosters creativity,” Academy CEO Dawn Hudson commented.

“There is no place in the Academy for people who abuse their status, power, or influence in a manner that violates recognized standards of decency. The Academy is categorically opposed to any form of abuse, harassment, or discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion, or nationality. The Board of Governors believes that these standards are essential to the Academy’s mission and reflective of our values,” Hudson said in a statement released to Variety.

If Smith has his Oscar stripped, he will not be the first to undergo that indignity. Film producer and predator Harvey Weinstein was stripped of his membership in the organization after he was found guilty of decades of sexual misconduct.

Others have also been penalized for various issues of misconduct but none have risen to the level of violence that Smith publically participated in.

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52 thoughts on “Could Will Smith be stripped of Oscar? Academy pressured to act after violent on-stage assault over joke”

  1. Per the tweet above:

    “…there are two sets of rules – one for handsome famous people & one for the rest. #Oscars”

    Not for nothing, but they’ve been doing that for 2 years; not a soul in the audience was wearing a mask but in the pics, the backstage peons are still masked up.

    Los Angeles is Lost Angeles.

  2. Let’s take inventory: a pre-WWIII battle ongoing in Ukrain, the worst inflation in 4 decades, gasoline at $6.00/gal.+, males claiming they are female, females claiming they are males, males and females claiming their personal pronouns are “They, their, them,” kids being taught that they shouldn’t listen to their parents but to their teachers and what the School Board dictates, kids being instructed in sex beginning at 5 years old and being offered gender “reassignment” therapy if they think they’re not in the right body, U.S. borders wide open for anyone who wishes to walk on in unchallenged, media manipulating the masses and masses not smart enough to know the difference.

    And Will Smith and Chris Rock fighting at the Best Marxist Awards Ceremony is what the news outlets obsess on today?  God help us all!

  3. Double standard much Will. You bad mouthed and joked about peoples miss fortune all the time. IMO take his Oscar, excommunicated him from all future awards and throw his skinny blm P.O.S ghetto asss in jail for assult. Isn’t that the demoncrap libtards communistic woketards way. Oh I forgot he’s a black blm demoncrap libtard communistic woketard constituent and Donner in LA California. ONCE A GHETTO P.O.S ALWAYS A GHETTO P.O.S. Just say

  4. This site was one of my go to sites for many years. It has gone to shit. I have no idea what they’ve done to the message board but so long bizshitreview.

  5. So they cry for five years about yt dominating the awards then they crowd the theatre with blacks and start handing out prizes and what happens? Violence! Fake violence at that.

    I suspect that regardless of melanin content, a chump that lies for a living supposedly slapped the shiznit out of a guy half his size for a joke that I’m certain everyone in there knew was coming.

    This, of all the horrors playing out in our world is the most talked about nonsense today.

    Pathetic!

  6. Typical jogger. It doesn’t matter how much money they have they act like ghetto thugs. Rock should press charges against the pos and they should definitely strip him of his Oscar.

  7. Didn’t even realize he had been in any movies recently much less one worthy of an award. But then again, what does winning an Oscar even mean in this day and age. Maybe everyone in the audience should have been required to provide Chris Rock with their lists of what he could and couldn’t make jokes about. I mean, did everyone there forget that Chris Rock is a comedian and is going to say whatever in order to make people laugh? Kudos to Chris for maintaining his composure. Furthermore, if all the rumors that I’ve heard about the Smith’s “open relationship” are true, then what kind of real respect can you have for one another and the sacred institution of marriage. If all those rumors are true, and Will Smith really believes what he says, then maybe it’s not Chris Rock’s mouth that he should be worried about keeping his wife’s name out of.

  8. This is exactly what this shit show has become . Shit !
    This skinny little black ass POS needs to have his true reckoning.
    Funny how it is that some people coming from nothing to riches are PRICKS .

  9. Just further proof that it will take eons for some africans to evolve past their jungle heritage…

  10. If they ban Kanye west from award shows for his bad behavior, then Smith has one up on Kanye. Or is it that the “black on black” violence it’s OK?

  11. When after all the steps forward to show the world that we are progressing to have respect and love for one another we have on display a fithy mouth so called comedian trying to intertain the world with lousy jokes about a mans wife that are sitting right in front of him. I don’t care how bad you want to tear down Will Smith, if that would of been me I would not of settled for a slap. I would of made sure he would not be talking for the rest of the show.

    1. na just dumbdonkeys hateing each other smith should be arrested for assault

      1. and as jong as burnlootmurder keep tearing into murderaplos murdersota where i live there is no love fjb and dems

  12. Anyone remember in 2016 when Will wasn’t nominated for the movie Concussion & Jada floated a black boycott on Twitter? She also said about it~
    @jadapsmith
    “People can only treat us in the way in which we allow. With much respect in the midst of deep disappointment.”
    Hmm…wasn’t very respectful & definitely disappointing the way Will reacted to a joke. They never would have been able to handle Don Rickles. Thin skinned.

  13. They didn’t eject him for two reasons, they knew he won best actor and his race. If this had been any white actor they would have been removed instantly. But in the dem world this behavior is not only allowed but applauded and encouraged. Remember the riots all across this country, the stealing, the damage and the injuries to others all condoned by liberal. Jussie lied and still is supported as if it’s someone else’s fault he concocted his own hate crime scheme. I don’t watch the Oscar’s, stopped that years ago, listening to a bunch of rich whiny actors swear and demean any one who doesn’t think the way they do was too much for me. Their egos are larger than life. Will Smith showed what a classless tool he is, he can insult others and it’s fine. Personally I think he should be arrested and charged and jailed. Privilege gets you off.

  14. Well, speaking as an adult who has raised several children and been an arbiter in work related personnel disputes, I can say that they both handled the situation wrong. Neither one of them publicly apologized to the other when they had ample opportunity. There is no way, shape or form to excuse Smith from physically assaulting Rock regardless of how insensitive he may have been. It is crazy to see how American media is trying to downplay this when anyone can see the uncensored Japanese edition and realize this was no prank. But that’s typical or our “news” media. “Don’t believe your own eyes and ears – believe what we tell you.”

  15. It is unfortunate that Black Culture, fueled by violent rap and hiphop lyrics, and by race mongers and politicians (both white and black), lives by the mantra Might make Right and we settle it with a Fight.

  16. It doesn’t matter how much money you give them, 13%ers will always behave like 13%ers.

  18. Stripped of his Oscar ? Well of course not.
    They may make a movie about this incident and give him another Oscar next year.

  20. Darn, the most exciting thing that has EVER happened at a Hollywood award show and I missed it.

  22. Just another example of black lives don’t matter.
    I hope Chris Rock sues the worthless will smith back to JIM CROW!!

    4. I agree but they won’t. I don’t get notifications of replies even when I subscribe to get them. But I do get notifications if all new comments on the post. They completely broke the comment system.

  24. This POS really needs to be taken out to the back alley
    Tarred ,feathered,pissed on and run outta town on a rail .

  25. A great commercial would be “Mountain Dew” followed by Blacks Lives Matter riots, Will Smith slap, Florida Walmart flash mob destruction…..lol

  26. Bizpacreview is not only censoring comments but showing specific comments to the readers . You see more comments only if logged in, interesting?

  27. The pathetic Oscars and Will Smith’s violent actions and foul language just confirmed, no matter how rich and famous-you can still act like a low life ghetto thug. And the Oscar clown show of Hollywood elitists continue to spiral downward as low life black culture becomes more and more common place in Hollywood.

  28. This was all set up. They wrote the joke. They knew he would be getting the award. Anything for viewers. Teaching young people that violence is what you do when someone says something you don’t like. Narcissistic LOSERS!

  32. deep down it appears all these nwords are VIOLENT and LACK CONTROL! It still may be possible this was staged. The oscars have been crap for a decade or two. This certainly brought attention! Now if that had been a white comedian getting whacked, that would have been OK of course!

  33. Don’t know what Smith’s issue is but, I’ve seen previous pics of his wife. That’s the best I’ve seen her look in a long time. The awards show had better strip him of the award and in fact, they ought to make it so he can’t win another one or even show up for the ceremonies for 10 years. It’s people like him (I’m talking attitudes not color) that tuned me out of all award shows. For me, it started with DeNiro the Zero.

  34. Let’s just be clear that if Chris Rock was white, not a single Hollyweird freak would have an issue with what Smith did.

  35. Will Smith had claimed he was called on by God to defend his family. Hah! God didn’t tell him to assault anyone. Will Smith has againPROVEN to be in error in his ways and speaking.

  36. Smith has anger issues. A few years ago, he punched a gay man for giving him a kiss on the cheek. He should be ordered to undergo anger management training.

  37. He SHOULD have been removed from the building, charged with Assault and NEVER presented with is “oscar” ! These people are complete azzholes !

    1. 90% of violence against blacks is from other blacks

      And can this new comment section possibly suck any worse

  38. Alec Baldwin was heard saying…”I”m appalled that someone in our profession would assault a fellow actor”. “He should be incarcerated for life and his statue taken away”!
    ’

  39. So, just to be clear: Juwan Howard slaps the Wisconsin assistant coach and the whole woke world was calling for him to be fired and now Will Smith does the same and they are all spraining their collective wrists patting him on the back?? What gives?

  40. “members must also behave ethically by upholding the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity, inclusion, and a supportive environment that fosters creativity,” Academy CEO Dawn Hudson commented.

    That’s asking a bit much of undisciplined, narcissistic, entitled, petulant, democrats who make up 99% of hollyweird.

    “There is no place in the Academy for people who abuse their status, power, or influence in a manner that violates recognized standards of decency.”

    They proved that untrue when they allowed smith to return to his seat as though nothing had happened. An outsider (any non democrat) who did what smith did would have been in a jail cell before the next commercial break.

    “The Academy is categorically opposed to any form of abuse, harassment, or discrimination on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, age, religion, or nationality.” 

    Conspicuous by its absence is the protection of one’s political leanings. Meaning it’s perfectly acceptable to discriminate against those who stand up for traditional values and reject the devil and his democrat agenda.

    1. The Smith family a freaks of nature. Will, Jada and Demon spawn as their children all freaks. Working for Paedophile Hollywood could be very interesting for family life. Rock should have slapped Smiths fake tears right off his face.

  41. Will Smith has become so woke he is just a plain joke. Hollywood has become so disturbing, and disgusting I don’t know how ANYONE except those that are so disturbed could even watch anything that is coming out of Weirdowood!

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