Academy Awards (Oscars 2022)

Jesus, that punch is bonkers, he has no real excuse for that. Comedians tell jokes, none of his movies are funny so maybe that’s what set him off?

That's it exactly.

IT's gonna go down as one of the worst, be it the joke stealing, the awful skits, and the punch. Also, the 'stream' has collapsed a number of times, even during the winning speeches. It's really bad.

And Smith should be escorted off the premises. Instead, Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper and Tyler Perry 'comforted' him. But you could see Denzel was angry. When Will gave his speech, Denzel didn't clap or anything. He was ticked off.

https://www.etonline.com/how-denzel-washington-and-tyler-perry-comforted-will-smith-after-chris-rock-fight-at-the-oscars

I feel like the ratings for this year's awards will be worse than last year. Mainly on account of how underseen the films were.

And someone posted this on twitter, and I laughed. It's accurate.

Even outside of the 'slap', there were many, many moments that ticked people the wrong way. Calling animation a 'genre', when it's a medium, and one of the few mediums' that kept many movie studios afloat during the pandemic. Animators were able to work from home, when live action movies and TV shows couldn't film.

The 'in-memorium' piece angered many more.

Case in point, Josh Olsen (screenwriter of 'A History of Violence') posted this tweet regarding the in-memorium segment (which bore an uncanny resemblance to a Golden Globes in-memorium segment from years ago) despite the show opening with a 'joke' about the Golden Globes.

The whole thing was actually more insulting than last year. And no excuse of a pandemic to blame it on.

What a bore/woke/pc/snooze fest .

The Oscars are now irrelevant. Will Smith and that wife of his… sheezzz… what an eeejit. She had a face like the back of a bus all evening. I actually thought Chris Rocks joke was funny, yes directed but funny. More funny than anything else the whole evening.

never knew John Travolta was so short!

The whole event was a disaster. It’s gone from great actors and films, to who can we include most and of course homage to dumbing down of film due to affirmative action. Sidney Poitier was a fantastic actor, Madea is not.

i love Wanda Sykes, but it was cringey watching her this evening.

looking at this BS this evening got me thinking about films that I really HAVE wanted to see over the past 5 years….there have been none.

independent films are where it’s at (if they get funding). Hollywoods originality has vanished in my humble opinion.

i didn’t realise we were watching the Real housewives of Hollywood tonight 😀

Oscar for Best Headline in Print media Catagory 🤔

Talk of him being made hand back the Oscar over it already. Imagine he has to do that, over losing the rag about a joke.

Absolute idiot

I certainly didn't watch this tripe but looked back at Chris Rock's joke prior to #bitchslaposcarsgate and honestly it didn't deserve the reaction it got by will Smith, Jesus wept what if Ricky Gervais was presenting, Smith would have gone into complete meltdown.

Never rated Smith generally but do now, he's a D**K head.

Have to agree with a lot of what has been said. The Oscars were always a bit glitzy and false, but that seems to now gone into overdrive. Many not bothered to watch anymore and I wonder how much even being an Oscar winner stands for these days.

Kevin Spacey was basically cancelled. Will Smith too, or will there be a sympathy vote, and he gets a free pass after this?

Elephant in the room. 2 black men and violence, and on prime time TV. I can see US Tea Party types dining out on this one.

The slap was bad enough but I thought the roaring and effing when he returned to his seat made him look particularly unhinged.

He laughed, she wasn't impressed and then he reacted, like she told him to do something. It wasn't even offensive, rock said she looked like GI Jane that's it. Great professionalism from Chris handled it like perfectly. Love nothing more than to see him stripped of the Oscar, they are the worst couple.

His wife has alopecia. Losing hair can be one of the most traumatic things for a woman