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Hollywood’s film academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after the best actor winner slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage at the Academy Awards ceremony 12 days ago.
Actor Will Smith has resigned from Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying on Friday that his slapping of presenter Chris Rock on stage at this year’s Oscars ceremony was ‘shocking, painful and inexcusable’.
Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were ready to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
Will Smith refused a request to leave the Oscars ceremony after he slapped presenter Chris Rock, Hollywood’s film academy said on Wednesday as it started a process that could lead to the best actor winner’s expulsion from the group.
‘CODA’ won the prestigious best picture award at the 94th annual ceremony of The Academy Awards or Oscars while Will Smith took home his first Academy Award on Sunday.
Will Smith took home his first Academy Award on Sunday night for playing Richard Williams, father and tennis mentor to Venus and Serena Williams, in ‘King Richard’.
Best actor nominee Will Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in the face with an open hand and shouted vulgarity at the comedian for making a joke about his wife’s appearance at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday.
The heartwarming movie ‘CODA’, about a deaf family with a hearing daughter, won the prestigious best picture prize at the Oscars on Sunday, the first time a streaming service took home the film industry’s biggest prize.
Sidney Poitier, who broke through racial barriers as the first Black winner of the best actor Oscar for his role in ‘Lilies of the Field’ and inspired a generation during the civil rights movement, has passed away at age 94, Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis said on Friday.
The 93rd annual ceremony of The Academy Awards or Oscars, held in Los Angeles on Sunday amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Frances McDormand won the best actress Sunday night for her performance in ‘Nomadland,’ which also nabbed the best picture.
Anthony Hopkins becomes the oldest actor to win the best actor Academy Award on Sunday night.
Chinese-born filmmaker Chloe Zhao has won the best director for ‘Nomadland’ at the Oscars 2021 on Sunday night.
Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ won the best picture at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, where the China-born Zhao became the first woman of color to win the best director and a historically diverse group of winners took home awards.
