Status: 03/29/2022 11:44 a.m
Will Smith has apologized for slapping Chris Rock and the Oscars the day after the Oscars. The tragic comedy “Coda” won the Oscar for best picture at the gala, and Jane Campion for best director.
A day after the Oscars, Will Smith met comedian Chris Rock for his slap sorry. “My conduct at the Academy Awards yesterday was unacceptable and inexcusable,” Smith wrote on Instagram. “Jokes at my expense are part of the job, but a joke about Jada’s health was too much for me to take and I reacted emotionally.” He wanted to thank Rock, the organizers of the Oscars, the audience and everyone involved in the film “King Richard” sorry, the 53-year-old US actor continued. The incident is embarrassing for him.
Will Smith responded to inappropriate joke about his wife
Will Smith (right) slaps Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars.
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Just before Smith won the Best Actor Oscar at the awards ceremony for his role as Richard Williams (father of the two Williams sisters) in “King Richard,” comedian Chris Rock had made an inappropriate joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s (due to illness) hair, Will Smith’s wife. The actor then stormed the stage, slapped the comedian, then sat back in his seat and insulted him loudly: “Let my wife’s name out of your damn mouth!”.
When he was presented with the long-awaited Oscar a little later, Will Smith gave a tearful six-minute acceptance speech in which he apologized to the Oscar Academy and asked: “I hope you will invite me again”. 80-year-old Richard Williams, who plays Smith, said through his son Chavoita LeSane the next day: “We don’t know the full details of what happened. But we will not condone anyone hitting another, unless it’s in self-defense.” , as “NBC News” reported on Tuesday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also condemned “Mr. Smith’s actions at yesterday’s show,” it said in a statement after the event. “We have officially opened a formal investigation into the incident and will be reviewing further steps and consequences consistent with our statute, our standards of conduct and California law.” The Academy does not condone any form of violence.
Tragedy comedy “Coda” wins Oscar for best picture
The Oscar Academy has on Monday night Feel-good tragic comedy “Coda” was awarded best film. The production is a remake of the French hit “Do you understand the Béliers?” and was able to redeem all three Oscar nominations. Director Siân Heder also received the award for the best adapted screenplay. Actor Troy Kotsur won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He is the first deaf male actor to win an Oscar, playing the deaf father of a fishing family whose hearing 17-year-old daughter Ruby (Emilia Jones) discovers her singing talent in a choir.
Director Jane Campion writes film history with “The Power of the Dog”
Joy and sadness at the same time: Jane Campion was only able to redeem one of twelve Oscars for “The Power of the Dog” – as best director.
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For the twelve-time nominee film “The Power of the Dog” by Jane Campion – actually the big favorite of the evening – the Oscar award ceremony in Los Angeles was a disappointment: Out of twelve nominations, only one Oscar win remained – which after all wrote film history. The New Zealand filmmaker Campion was only the third woman in film history to be awarded best director for her psychodrama. She is the first to ever be nominated twice in this category. Before her, only Katheryn Bigelow and Chloé Zhao were honored as best directors.
Campion’s The Power of the Dog nominees like Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst missed out. Instead, actress Jessica Chastain received the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the comedy The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
“Dune” big winner with six Oscars – also for Hans Zimmer
The fantasy drama “Dune” by Denis Villeneuve, the big winner of the evening with six Oscars, won in almost all technical categories. Among other things, for best editing, best production design and best camera for Greig Fraser. Two Germans received Oscars for their work on the three-hour film: The composer Hans Zimmer, who is currently on tour in Europe and therefore did not accept the statuette in person.
Also honored was the German specialist for visual effects, Gerd Nefzer. After “Blade Runner 2049” he and his team accepted his second Oscar for best visual effects. In an interview with the “Deutsche Presseagentur” immediately after leaving the stage, Nefzer thanked his “incredible” director Villeneuve: “He’s a great guy and I love him very much.”
AUDIO: Oscar gala with slap and Oscar for the German Gerd Nefzer (5 min)
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Billie Eilish wins Oscar for James Bond song ‘No Time To Die’
Musician Billie Eilish received the Oscar for best song “No Time to Die”, which she composed with her brother Finneas. It is the theme song to the James Bond adventure of the same name starring Daniel Craig by Cary Fukunaga. Both played the song during the more than three-hour gala, which, like every year, ran much longer than planned.
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