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The Oscars 2022.

If that is an "official" response then in poor taste imo. Hopefully not as Smith has been quite remorseful and aware he faces potential further action from the academy. This feels like throwing fuel on the fire but I expect nothing less from the odious idiot that is Rock
It's a fake tweet...I'm sure he'll do a routine on it in the future though.
 

Have they? From your link;

Only one Oscar has ever been taken back; a feature called "Young Americans" won the best documentary honour in 1969 but was found to be ineligible for the award that year.

Late last month, actor Whoopi Goldberg - a member of the academy's board of governor - predicted Smith would face "big consequences" but said "we're not going to take that Oscar away from him."
 
Will Smith has been banned from the academy for 10 years. Is that a punishment or a blessing?

And yet Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski were never banned despite being guilty of far worse things than slapping Chris Rock for making a poor joke. Mel Gibson also guilty of some poor behaviour but also never banned.
 
And yet Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski were never banned despite being guilty of far worse things than slapping Chris Rock for making a poor joke. Mel Gibson also guilty of some poor behaviour but also never banned.

Are you sure about Weinstein & Polanski? From the same link;

"Few have ever resigned from the academy. Four members - producer Harvey Weinstein, actor Bill Cosby, director Roman Polanski and cinematographer Adam Kimmel - have been booted over sexual misconduct allegations, while actor Carmine Caridi was expelled in 2004 for pirating screener videos given to him."
 
And yet Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski were never banned despite being guilty of far worse things than slapping Chris Rock for making a poor joke. Mel Gibson also guilty of some poor behaviour but also never banned.
If Smith had punched Rock at the after party, or somewhere else, I'm sure no action would have been taken.

However, he did it at the event. The Oscars committee are simply reacting because 1. They've been put under pressure to do so, and 2. The incident took the focus away from the other winners.

I wonder how many people still think it was staged?
 
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