Academy Awards (Oscars 2022)

He was off balance, does he look all smiles here?

if i was Chris Rock i would have got out my phone and said 'hello operator can can i have the LAPD please i want to report an assault'

and it was an assault with a billion witnesses 😑

I diagree here. It was a committed assault. Slap or kick or punch, or whatever.....he was genuinely whacked/assaulted

I don't think many would see him as "weak" (whatever that means here) if he pressed charges. I'd see him as real and principled.

The only one who'd come off as weak is the perp.

It is violence. Had that been a woman struck with that slap she'd be out of it....

It's amazing how you think that everybody acts the same way in situations.

Also Rock had no idea that Smith was going to do what he did and didn't have time to put hands up.

If it was staged then there would have been a comic element to it and Smith would not have sworn like he did on live TV.

This is turning out to be very damaging to Smith and has completely over shadowed his much longed for Oscar win. His reputation is shot and there's just no upside to stage this.

I wonder what today will bring now that reactions from other parts of the world have been coming in overnight. Only early morning here on the west coast, so id expect as the day goes on, the sour taste will become more apparent.

I would say comedians got about a years worth of material on Smith already at this stage.

I was watching live and initially thought it might have been a setup and it was a ‘stunt’ slap. But once the shouting and repeated F bomb was used, along with the deathly silence in the auditorium that followed where everyone realised this was not ‘a bit’ and then the way Rock was after it; he tried to ride it out but kept getting his words mixed up, was clearly shaken, then almost gave up and said “let’s just go to the nominations”…It was no doubt 100% real IMO. It’ll be interesting to see how it develops…

One of several things it overshadowed was Coppola’s acknowledgment of Robert Evan’s part in the success of The Godfather shortly afterwards - that was a huge moment!

well he was hurt & visibly shaken by the incident, you could hear it in his voice- he went off cue and found it difficult to compose himself ...i'm no fan of Chris Rock i can take him or leave him, but i wouldn't call him weak for pressing charges, I mean Smith didn't even apologise to him afterwards when he collected his award which if I was Rock i'd be mighty miffed about😗

and no sign of his missus. She's probably gone off with Chris for the night.

I'd say that Chris Rock woke up this morning feeling good about himself.

Staged or not. Crass joke or not.

He's thinking - cracked a joke. Got a slap in the mouth for it. Millions of people who didn't know who I was yesterday now think that I am the most edgy comedian in the world.

this is a long thread so may have missed it but how the hell does coda win best picture ahead of licorice pizza and dune? it's a cute remake of a cute film (i personally prefer the original), but neither are great tbh, and definitely not oscar worthy. Woke culture at its worst i guess?

I thought woke was a new concept, genuinely confused on what it means anymore. Didn't marlee marlin win an Oscar for quite a similar movie in the eighties with William Hurt ( who was a terrible person but honoured at this year's ceremony).

One word, Diversity.

she did for children of a lesser god in the 80s but whilst not a great film, her performance was amazing from what i can remember, and i don't think anyone, at the time or now, would deny her the oscar regardless of deaf or not, and call it wokeness.

although, you're probably right, adding wokeness to the argument for this film might generate responses around that rather than whether it's a great film or not (it's not). i take it back!!!😀

I’ve long considered Will Smith a particularly dopey excuse for an actor but that scumbaggery last night really sums him up

a few year ago he turned down Django unchained because he wanted to “protect the brand”

hows the brand going for ye now will eh??

Didn't he win an Oscar for using his words? Two dimwits, like a pair of roaring drunks at each other, but I guess they are famous so they can be tools as often as they like. The rest of us we hope are better dragged up!

Sky news showing coverage of it

rock makes the joke

cut to will Smith breaking his arse laughing at it

cut back to rock on stage enjoying the audience reaction to the joke

all good so far ...

next thing we hear will Smith is on the war path heading up to confront rock

id bet any money the wife was like a boiled sh1te over the remark and prodded dopey will to go up there and do “something”

ppl here are saying she had a mug on her like a bulldog chewing a thistle all night

You wouldn't even get this kind of garbage in an episode of CSI.

I think Will tanked a lot of credibility when he made that dire film with Jaden ("After Earth"?).

At least with this side of Smith out in public the darker take on Fresh Prince of Bel Air makes sense hah.

If.

Remember the glory years of film in the mid to late 2000s. There will be blood, no country for old men, the departed, atonement, into the wild, drive. And earlier years Braveheart, shawshank, goodfellas. The films of past 2 years have been poor compared.

Looks like the daughter also got a GI Jane haircut. And the son Jaden is a right a-hole, reckon he is one right spoilt brat.