The Academy has formally reprimanded Will Smith following his Oscars slap fiasco with veteran comedian Chris Rock.
Following a disciplinary meeting, which West Coast rapper The Game staunchly disapproved of, The Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences reconvened and announced on Friday (April 8), the King Richard actor would be banned from all Academy events, including the Oscars, for 10 years due to his physical assault on Chris Rock at the 94th Oscars awards show.
In a report from Variety, Will Smith, who already voluntarily resigned from The Academy on April 1, will likely get to keep his Best Actor Oscar award for his performance in the biopic based on Serena and Venus Williams’ father Richard Williams, because the Oscars has “no legal authority to claim,” his award as part of disciplinary action. The ban, which goes into effect April 8, will not affect Smith’s eligibility to be nominated or win Oscar awards in the future.
Will Smith also purportedly replied to the decision in a statement in which he wrote, “I accept and respect the Academy’s decision.”
Though Will Smith has previously described his state of mind as “Heartbroken” following the Oscars ceremony, where he walked on stage and open-handedly slapped Chris Rock in response to a joke the comedian told geared toward Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head, countless celebrities have criticized him for his emotionally charged actions.
During his recent Drink Champs interview, Harlem hitmaker A$AP Rocky expressed his disappointment with Will Smith for how he chose to handle a disagreement with a fellow Black man.
“I’m a fan of Will, Jada, Chris, all of them. They OGs,” Rocky said, as seen in the clip posted to Instagram. “I think it’s unfortunate that, like, he emasculated another Black man in front of all them people like that. But I do think that, like, it’s some built-up shit that probably wasn’t really targeted at Chris Rock. I don’t know. … Like what you said, it seems like it’s more than just a G.I. Jane joke.”
Wiz Khalifa also attempted to make light of the situation during the premiere event of his Still Rolling Papers documentary, where he warned attendees to refrain from approaching the stage, or else they may face the fate of being shot at for running up on him.
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Chris Rock’s brother, Tony Rock also addressed the situation during a recent stand-up gig, seemingly implying he would not have had the same wherewithal as his brother to keep his composure had he been on the Oscars stage that night.
“If you think you going to walk up on this stage, this ain’t the muthafucking Oscars!” Tony Rock said. “And if you walk your ass up here, you ain’t nominated for shit but these muthafucking hands! Oh, we going to pop the rest of the year, n-gga. Every time you see me do a show, pop!”
He continued, “You gonna hit my muthafucking brother because your bitch gave you a side-eye?”
Watch the full clip and catch some of Tony Rock’s Twitter clapbacks below.
Oscars ain’t gonna slap like they used to that’s for sure
I used to like Jada but as she’s gotten older it’s obvious she’s a toxic bitch. She ruined Will Smith by running all over his insecurities. He always been pretty corny, but his spirit has been shattered. Cut that old bitch loose and let her do a red table talk on being worthless.
Of course he accepts it. He isn’t about to run up on those white folks that own him like he did Rock. Wouldn’t be surprised if Jada still comes to the shit every year while his stupid ass can’t anymore, and she seems like the type who doesn’t even give a fuck about that corny shit.
“Boo-hoo! It’s all wyppo’s fault!” Stop crying, your clown make up is starting to run.
So that was too violent to allow happen? Yet disney Hollywood and the music industry push satanic agendas and the majority are also pedophiles.. boycott all musicians all actors for it is Jesus we need to call upon to stop this wickedness
This people is what happens when a man lets a woman cuck their masculinity to near extinction. One or two cuck proponents on here will try and say it’s ok for a man like Will being cucked and even messing up his career on her behalf was a smart move…….these are bitchmade men in a similar situation as Will and are trying to normalize this type of embarrassing behaviour. We see what your agenda is on here weirdo
the game doesn’t even know what the ban means… holy shhh he cant vote? what a staunch punishment!
The implications are likely much more than just him not being able to vote. This is definitely going to fuck up his bag in terms of getting certain movie roles and also will mess up deals and sponsorships he has with big companies. Sure he’s worth hundreds of millions, but I’m sure he has big expenses too and he will definitely feel the knock on effect from this. Hopefully it all blows over in a year or two.