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Movie Academy CEO Bill Kramer said there is “a whole crisis team” in place for the Academy Awards next — a first for the ceremony in its 95 years. The move is another reaction to Will Smith’s infamous face-slap of Chris Rock as the latter was about to present the Best Documentary Oscar. In an int…

Well, the mostly predictable Oscar nominations arrived Tuesday morning with no disasters or truly egregious missteps. Even the snubs were fairly routine: no female directors, though women won the directing award in the past two years; James Cameron and Joseph Kosinski, both Best Picture nominees, were…

An emotional Will Smith revisited Oscar night with Trevor Noah on Monday by explaining what drove him to slap Chris Rock in front of millions of viewers. “I was gone, dude,” Smith told Noah on The Daily Show. “That was a rage that had been bottled for a really long time.” Smith, who was on the…

Will Smith is sharing his thoughts about people who might not be ready to see his new film Emancipation after his infamous Oscars slap. "I completely understand — if someone is not ready, I would absolutely respect that and allow them their space to not be ready," Smith told Fox 5’s Good Day DC…

Apple Original Films has dated the run-from-slavery thriller Emancipation for a December 2 theatrical opening, followed by a December 9 release on its Apple TV+ streaming site. This follows the film’s first showing in DC on Saturday, with star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua (who flew in from Italy…

UPDATED throughout: In a video that is 5 minutes, 44 seconds long, Will Smith has broken his silence about the regrettable "slap heard around the world," in which he struck Oscar presenter Chris Rock after the comic made fun of Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith. This before Smith was awarded Best Actor…

Tyler Perry reluctantly opened up today about Will Smith's Oscar slap of Chris Rock, saying that he "left early to get to Chris to make sure he was okay" but felt empathy for Smith too. In a Q&A with Gayle King at the Tribeca Festival, he took issue with media reports that he had comforted Smith — who…

Jada Pinkett Smith on Wednesday finally addressed Oscar night on her weekly Red Table Talk. Before launching into a show that addresses the 147 million people living with alopecia “including me,” Smith began her show with her first public statement about the Academy Awards on March 27 and how her husband Will slapped…

Netflix yesterday unveiled an episode of its talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction taped prior to the 2022 Oscars, which saw disgraced actor Will Smith sit down with former late-night host David Letterman to discuss his 2021 memoir Will, his Oscar-winning King Richard role, “pain” stemming from his childhood…

ABC will air the 95th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday March 12, and Craig Erwich promises that the Disney-owned network will make the telecast "even better" than this year. Erwich, who is President of Entertainment at ABC, told Deadline that despite the Will Smith slap on Chris Rock, he thought it was a "really…

Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk is returning to Facebook Watch on Wednesday for its first episode since her husband Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars last month. Watch a trailer below. Season 5 of the Daytime Emmy-winning digital talk series, which also stars Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith and…

Comedian and former Tonight Show host Jay Leno weighed in on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last month. Leno, who called Smith a “good guy,” said that the most shocking moment to him came after the slap. “To me, the thing that’s most disturbing wasn’t the slap, because he was kind of smirking after he…