Academy Awards

I think the bottom line with this is violence should have definitely not been a part of this at all. Whether the joke was distasteful or not the way Will Smith reacted in front of not only that audience of his peers, but also billions of viewers on the live television was uncalled for. It should have been handled in a totally different manner between Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith and Chris Rock and not in front of all of those cameras.

Only having the ability to see the text of how Chris Rock handled the situation, I believe he handled it very professionally.
 

I have never watched the Awards Show. Actually I have never watched them and never will. I'm not least bit interested in modern day celebrities, who they sleep with, what they eat or who they hate or love. I used to have "heroes" but they are now dead for many years. Anyway, those folks on the shows wear funny clothes and they have funny haircuts. A lot of those so called celebrities dress funny just to attract attention. They are "starved" for attention Definitely, not my thing!

I feel that with so much going on in the world, I have absolutely no time or interest in what some clown does on TV. We have Putin's war in Ukraine which has millions of immigrants leaving the country. We have problems with pollution, global warming, rising inflation and raising interest rates. All these are important to me than what some so called "star" says or does.
 
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Packerjohn said:
I have never watched the Awards Show. Actually I have never watched them and never will. I'm not least bit interested in modern day celebrities, who they sleep with, what they eat or who they hate or love. I used to have "heroes" but they are now dead for many years. Anyway, those folks on the shows wear funny clothes and they have funny haircuts. Definitely, not my thing!
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Yea, Packerjohn, a right thinker
 

Will Smith has just apologised in an Instagram post at https://www.instagram.com/p/CbqmaY1p7Pz/.

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I'm sure my views won't sit well with some, but I think Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith are attention whores. She is constantly on Red Table talking about her Alopecia, her marriage woes or her affair. They have made their life a public spectacle, so if they get backlash so be it.

I think Will Smith is arrogant and insecure (trying to suck up to Jada so she won't have another affair) and he acted like an immature thug. And the fact that he used such foul language after he slapped Chris Rock says a lot about him. I guess someone has to take Alec Baldwin's place since he is no longer in the spotlight.

Will Smith's sharing of his "Dad Bod" during Covid just shows how much he needs attention and how important he thinks he is. I haven't watched anything Will Smith was in since the 90's and now I certainly won't.

I think Chris Rock handled it like a true gentleman.

 
I ave not watched award shows in years. Never been interested. I do not follow current music or movies. And I have been one to never choose what I like based on awards.
But I heard of the controversy. WOW.
But, that movie CODA that won, does sound interesting. May wait for it to come to streaming. My local movie theater closed at start of Pandemic, and story is the owner has no plans to reopen
 
Packerjohn said:
I have never watched the Awards Show. Actually I have never watched them and never will. I'm not least bit interested in modern day celebrities, who they sleep with, what they eat or who they hate or love. I used to have "heroes" but they are now dead for many years. Anyway, those folks on the shows wear funny clothes and they have funny haircuts. Definitely, not my thing!
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I actually don't watch the American awards shows myself either.. however this attack made international news.. that's where I saw it...
 
Marie5656 said:
I ave not watched award shows in years. Never been interested. I do not follow current music or movies. And I have been one to never choose what I like based on awards.
But I heard of the controversy. WOW.
But, that movie CODA that won, does sound interesting. May wait for it to come to streaming. My local movie theater closed at start of Pandemic, and story is the owner has no plans to reopen
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The movie CODA is in a streaming format called Apple TV.
 
@dseag2 you are correct that the apology from Will Smith is somewhat to help his career survive. He is not stupid and knows that assaulting another man on live television is not going to go well for his career so I imagine his agent and publicist informed him that he better apologize and do it quickly.

I am also not saying that Chris Rock is a complete saint in all of this matter. Yes, he handled the situation like a true professional. However, the situation should have never come to be as in my opinion jokes about disabilities should never come to be.

The Academy should also be ashamed of themselves for the manner they handled the situation. They definitely have people who go over the Hosts script and should have seen the joke and what it was targeting and removed it from the script. I doubt that it was something that was something Chris Rock just added at the last minute.

After the assault from Will Smith and the Academy stating they do not promote violence at all they still did nothing. They should have immediately removed Will Smith from the audience and for his award if she wanted to have his wife accept it. At least they would have made a stance on what they said they believe in. They did nothing.
 
I haven't watched this show for many years. I don't go to the movies any more so really have no interest in it.

The whole world know about Jada's alopecia through various interview over the years .
She made no secret of it and did many interviews even joking about it herself.

I feel there was a lot more reason behind Smith's actions than her baldness.
His well scripted supposed apology just adds to the whole stupid attention getting situation.
Just my tuppence worth😒
 
dseag2 said:
I'm sure my views won't sit well with some, but I think Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith are attention whores. She is constantly on Red Table talking about her Alopecia, her marriage woes or her affair. They have made their life a public spectacle, so if they get backlash so be it.
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Could not have said it better myself......
this is the act of "celebrities" who long ago fell off the radar for most people... desperate for press and attention
 
As I have been thinking about this entire situation and some of what I read about it and even the text I read from Will Smith's acceptance speech for the Best Actor award it seems to me that his actions somehow tie into the character he played in King Richard. Venus & Serena Williams father Richard Williams was a huge protector of them and his family and would go to all ends to protect them. That is pretty much what he did with his actions at the award show the other night.

From reading the words from his acceptance speech for the best actor award he even tied it all in there. It all seems a bit weird to me. It seems like he was somewhat still acting the part of Richard Williams and showing the world that we all need to protect those we love. Of course he took it way too far as that is what most celebrities seem to do.

I do think celebrities do these crazy sort of stunts all the time to drum up drama to get attention towards their career. Not saying Will Smith needs that sort of attention at all so that doesn't make much sense, but they do it often.

Chris Rock is also getting a lot of attention out of this as well and before all of this what really has he done recently.

I don't know it all seems pretty weird to me.
 
WhatInThe said:
In the meantime Smith's award 'might' be in jeopardy. Academy to meet and decide what to do.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...review-will-smith-oscars-incident-1235120995/

Don't think much will come of it although it keeps Smith's name and slap in the news
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The academy probably loves it most people have talked about show in years and maybe people have watch links to this ... their ratings for all these award shows have been in the dumps for years.

never saw it do not care personally if either one of those guys ... was slapped silly
 
@StarSong mentioned Jada Pinkett-Smith's affair(s), we should not overlook the fact that this couple went public a few years ago about having an open marriage. I seem to recall he initially suggested and he had affairs before her highly publicized one. Kind of limited my sympathy for him when she confirmed the relationship with her son's friend, despite his emotional reaction.

Whether celebs or not i don't consider any choices others make my business unless it involves harm to a minor and when they or others seem to be soliciting my sympathy for them having to deal with natural consequences of their choices.

Someone needs to point out that without Smith's reaction the 'joke' would likely have been forgotten by most people by the time the broadcast ended. Does anyone remember any if the 'offensive' remarks Ricky Gervais made at an awards show a while back? Instead, it has become a major topic on news and social media despite several much more important matters than as Wil Wheaton put it 'one multimillionaire slapping another multimillionaire'.

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I also find it interesting that some that have complained of how 'oversensitive' and excessively politically correct we've become are fine with a physically violent response to 'mere words', which is how they often cast their own insults, microaggressions and passive aggressive marks.
 
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WhatInThe said:
In the meantime Smith's award 'might' be in jeopardy. Academy to meet and decide what to do.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/m...review-will-smith-oscars-incident-1235120995/

Don't think much will come of it although it keeps Smith's name and slap in the news
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I don't think they will take away his award as that was won on his accomplishments of how he performed in the film King Richard and really even though literally Will Smith slapped the Academy in the face and embarrassed himself and the Academy that doesn't change how he performed in the movie.

Jeni said:
The academy probably loves it most people have talked about show in years and maybe people have watch links to this ... their ratings for all these award shows have been in the dumps for years.

never saw it do not care personally if either one of those guys ... was slapped silly
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For me , I didn't watch the Academy Awards. I became interested in the show when I saw the news that Coda actor Troy Kotsur won for Best Supporting Male Actor. Then I became elated when I saw that CODA won the Best Film award. I did not know about the whole Chris Rock and Will Smith thing until I saw it posted here.

Initially when I made this thread about the Academy Awards if you look back to the OP it is all about how I was excited for the deaf community that CODA won Best Film. Nothing to do about Will Smith and Chris Rock.

The sad thing is you are correct about the Academy loving all of this talk. Even though they say they hate violence and are against it they are eating this all up.
 
Silent Rose said:
They definitely have people who go over the Hosts script and should have seen the joke and what it was targeting and removed it from the script. I doubt that it was something that was something Chris Rock just added at the last minute.
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It wasn’t reviewed or rehearsed according to a NY Post article. He’s a really astute comic and may have ad libbed it.

Mizmo said:
His well scripted supposed apology just adds to the whole stupid attention getting situation.
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His publicist was out on the floor with him during every commercial break. Bet she and the lawyers were working at high speed.

Jeni said:
The academy probably loves it most people have talked about show in years and maybe people have watch links to this
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Yeah, they’ll be loving it.

Somewhere I saw photos of Will partying the night away while holding his Oscar. He wasn’t too distressed then. Again the lawyers and team would be working overtime.
 

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