Within the hours after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for joking about his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, at this yr’s Oscar Awards, the Academy launched an announcement saying it “doesn’t condone violence of any kind,” which they had been shortly criticized for.

Seeing because the present allowed Smith to just accept his award for Finest Actor – which he even obtained a standing ovation for – many viewers had been of the opinion that the Academy was very a lot condoning violence by not taking additional motion in opposition to the actor, which they’ve since executed.

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On April 1st, the Aladdin star formally resigned from the group, and only a week later, it was publicly introduced that Smith has been banned from any Academy occasions, nearly or in actual life, for the subsequent decade.

“Throughout our telecast, we didn’t adequately handle the scenario within the room,” a letter from David Rubin and Daybreak Hudson admits. “For this, we’re sorry. This was a chance for us to set an instance for our visitors, viewers and our Academy household around the globe, and we fell brief — unprepared for the unprecedented.”

Smith has since responded, sharing that he “accepts and respects” the Academy’s choice, however from the seems of issues, many individuals on Twitter don’t.

“BREAKING: Will Smith banned by the Hollywood Academy, 12 days after he slapped Chris Rock,” English broadcaster Piers Morgan wrote earlier immediately. “It took the identical Academy 40 years to ban Roman Polanski after he was convicted of raping a toddler.”

One other person identified, “Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski by no means had their Oscars rescinded, John Wayne was by no means expelled, and the Academy by no means apologized to Hattie McDaniel – simply in case anybody was trying on the Academy as some ethical beacon.”

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