Denzel Washington consoling Will Smith. Chris Rock making a joke to a bewildered stage crew. Netflix’s exec making the most of the night. These are the Oscars highlights that didn’t make it to the air.
Viewers at home and Oscar-goers alike were left with one question after Will Smith left the stage: Was that a real slap? “Lots of people in the lobby are huddling around each other’s phones watching replays of the confrontation and being shocked,”reported. “‘I don’t think that’s a joke,’ said one of five women studying the clip like the Zapruder film.
Someone backstage told Anthony they saw Rock walk back to the wings with a visibly red cheek, “but he tried to play it off to the gobsmacked crew and fellow presenters by making a joke about one of Will Smith’s other Oscar-nominated roles. One witness said he remarked loudly, ‘That’s the only time you get hit by Muhammad Ali and it doesn’t leave a scratch.’”
Back in the audience, people flocked to the Smiths at every commercial break, including Smith’s publicist andMere minutes later, Smith won the best-actor award, as was widely expected, and likely got a much more attentive audience as a result of the incident. In the bar in the theater, Anthony reported that there was “a literal hush in the room.
When Chris Rock made his poorly judged joke about Jada Pinkett Smith, he was introducing the best-documentary category, which was won byBackstage in the press room immediately after, Questlove shut down an attempt to ask him about what must have been a charged moment. Not long after, a representative of the Academy put an even stricter mandate on the press: no asking people about categories that were not their own.
Back in the press room, the winners in those categories largely opted not to focus on the controversy. “We are here to honor the film and honor
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