Smith spent his remarkable 30-year career building toward Sunday's Oscars triumph. With a single, impulsive act, he turned it into a moment of shame.
The day after a night of historic wins, everyone’s talking about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at Sunday’s Oscars. Here’s how the drama unfolded.
On Monday, the organization added a more forceful statement: “The Academy condemns the actions of Mr. Smith at last night’s show. We have officially started a formal review around the incident and will explore further action and consequences in accordance with our Bylaws, Standards of Conduct and California law.”Smith responded in turn with a more fulsome apology. “My behavior at last night’s Academy Awards was unacceptable and inexcusable,” he wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.
Smith’s heroic stature inside and outside Black culture, and his carefully constructed persona as the patriarch of a celebrity family, only intensifies the fallout. And his actions have now placed his reputation in jeopardy.That is true whether you take Rock at his word — that he was making a “G.I. Jane” joke — or believe he crossed the line by coming for Pinkett Smith over a medical condition. You don’t need to justify Rock’s rhetoric to be mortified by Smith’s disproportionate response.
More than the “Moonlight” / “La La Land” mix-up of 2017, the assault will further stain the Oscars and perhaps even accelerate their deteriorating importance in the pop culture firmament. When people look back on the 94th Academy Awards — already— they will likely forget which film won best picture , who won lead actress and director , which winners made history. But they are very likely to remember Smith and “the slap.” That one impulsive act overshadowed all of the evening’s positive moments.
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