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The Oscars return for the 95th time tonight, with stars including Normal People's Paul Mescal, Elvis star Austin Butler and acclaimed director James Cameron all hoping to pick up gongs.The prestigious Academy Awards have been marred by scandals including awards going missing never to be found again, the wrong winners being announced due to an accidental envelope swap and even a (possibly staged) streaker running across the stage in the middle of the live broadcast. Here are just a few of the best, worst and most memorable.
Will Smith slaps Chris Rock Just last year, Will Smith left the audience aghast when he invaded the stage to slap Chris Rock. Comedian Chris had made a joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith, Will’s wife, that likened her to GI Jane.
Will felt that the joke was a dig at his wife’s alopecia and shouted at Chris to “keep my wife’s name out of your f*****g mouth!” before taking to the stage to personally accost the bewildered comedian. Will later apologised and was banned from attending the awards ceremony for ten years as punishment, but he was allowed to keep the Oscar he won later that night.
Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar vanishes Hattie McDaniel made film history in 1940 when she became the first black actress to win an Oscar, but her night was marred when her award went missing and the culprit was never caught.The statue did eventually resurface when it was anonymously donated to a museum after the actress died - but it then vanished again, with the museum speculating that it had been stolen yet again. As of 2023, no one knows where the award is.
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“We didn’t want to make this year all about last year,” McNearney, 45, told Variety. “I cannot tell you how many Will Smith jokes we had that then we got rid of.
Will Smith was keeping a low profile while the 95th Academy Awards were taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Will Smith was keeping a low profile while the 95th Academy Awards were taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.Not too far away from the event in San Dimas, California, the 54-year-old actor was seen driving a car around 4 p.m. PT.The sighting comes about a year after Smith made headlines for slapping Chris Rock across the face during the 2022 Oscars in reaction to the comedian making a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
2023 Oscars on Sunday.Will Smith didn’t return to violently clobber Chris Rock. He couldn’t.
Not all of the moments that happened at the Oscars were aired on television, but thankfully we have tons of photos of what happened backstage and in the audience during commercials breaks.
Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. “I wanted to say thank you for this acknowledgment because it couldn’t be done without my cast.”Fraser came out on top of what was widely considered to be a neck-and-neck race, with Austin Butler (“Elvis”) and Colin Farrell (“The Banshees of Inisherin“) also considered to be front-runners.
Tim Allen and his wife Jane attended an Oscars viewing party Sunday night as the actor poked fun at Will Smith's infamous slap. Allen, 69, shared a joke about Smith slapping Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars ceremony on Twitter. "Of [sic] to a Academy Award dinner and I wonder if tonight's host will wear one of these?" He included a photo of a padded boxing helmet with the tweet.
The elephant in the room. It’s been one year since Will Smith infamously slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, but the incident’s aftermath was very much present at the 2023 Oscars.
Oscars 2023, host Jimmy Kimmel addressed last year’s slap by Will Smith.At the 2022 ceremony, which also took place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage.Rock had made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a style she chose as a way of dealing with the alopecia she suffers from. Smith, who is married to Pinkett Smith, then walked on stage and slapped the comedian.Smith later went on to win the award for Best Actor for his role in King Richard and gave a lengthy speech in which he highlighted similarities between himself and his character of Richard Williams. “Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” Smith said.
Questlove returned to the Oscars on Sunday, one year after Will Smith overshadowed his win in the Best Documentary Feature Film category for his .Before taking the stage with co-presenter Riz Ahmed, host Jimmy Kimmel announced the pair, and took a moment to poke fun at the infamous Oscars slap.«Our category is Documentary Feature, which you may recall, is where we had that little skirmish last year,» Kimmel began, referencing the moment Smith took the stage to slap Chris Rock, after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith's baldness. «Hopefully, this time it goes off without a hitch, or at least without .»He continued, «Please put your hands together — and then keep them to yourself for Oscar winners Riz Ahmed and Amir „Questlove“ Thompson.»After getting praise from Ahmed, who told the musician turned filmmaker that he loved , the pair set the stage for the nominees before announcing as the winner in the Best Documentary Feature Film category.The pair went on to present the award for Best Documentary Short next, which went to .The win marked yet another moment where last year's slap was part of a punchline.
Jimmy Kimmel is kicking off the night!
Nicole Kidman’s ever-present AMC ad.His genuinely funny monologue didn’t skimp on references to Will Smith’s infamous Oscar slap last year, with Kimmel joking that anyone who committed violence at the awards show would “be given the Best Actor Oscar and allowed to make a 19-minute speech.” After parachuting in as if dropped off by Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick” character, Kimmel quipped, “I’m happy to see that Nicole Kidman has finally been released from that abandoned AMC where she has been held captive for almost two full years now. It’s good to have you back.
Will Smith, 54, cracked 94th Academy Awards presenter Chris Rock, 58, in the face after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair.“Well, whatever I say about it, it’s going to have to be great, right?” he told The Hollywood Reporter last week. “Because so much has been said and there’s so much focus on it.
Paul Mescal proved it’s not just Hollywood ladies who can have fun with fashion at the Oscars as he arrived at Sunday’s event in a white suit.The Normal People actor, 27, is up for Best Actor for his role in coming-of-age drama Aftersun. He’s up against Colin Farrell, nominated for The Banshees Of Inisherin, Elvis’ Austin Butler and The Whale star Brendan Fraser, as well as veteran British actor Bill Nighy for Living. Arriving at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on Sunday night, Paul cut a suave figure in a white tuxedo jacket with a bowtie as he posed on the champagne carpet.
Best Picture “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Malte Grunert, producer “Avatar: The Way of Water” — James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers
Oscars are here, and the red carpet is underway. Er, make that the champagne carpet. Indeed, the Academy mixed things up this year and eschewed the traditional red tones for a champagne-colored carpet, but one thing remains the same: the nominees are looking terrific.If you’re wondering how to watch the Oscars red carpet, you can see all the goings-on in the livestream video embedded above.
the most — unhinged, unexpected moments in the prestigious show’s 94-year history. “Jada, I love you. ‘GI Jane 2,’ can’t wait to see you,” Rock quipped about Jada Pinkett Smith’s bald head while presenting an award — prompting Smith to run onstage and strike him.
Lights, camera, fashion! The 2023 Academy Awards are almost upon Us.
Will Smith shockingly smacked Chris Rock onstage at the Academy Awards after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, the comedian reignited the feud with his Netflix stand-up special “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage” last Saturday.“Will is embarrassed and hurt by what Chris said about him and his family in his Netflix special,” a Smith source told “Entertainment Tonight.”Embarrassed or not, last year’s Best Actor winner received a 10-year ban from the Oscars and other associated Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences events, so he cannot present the trophy for Best Actor in 2023 as tradition dictates. And a source told Page Six the violent dust-up won’t go unmentioned Sunday night.“We’re going to acknowledge it, and then we’re gonna move on,” executive producer Molly McNearney said in a press conference.