Will Smith’s fit of rage, who hit comedian Chris Rock for joking about his wife’s alopecia, stunned the public during the Oscar ceremony minutes before seeing him cry when receiving the statuette for best actor, but the gala had other highlights, such as the request for help for Ukraine.
Will Smith, a hit, an Oscar and tears
Everything was going according to plan until comedian Chris Rock took the stage to present the Oscar for best documentary. He made a couple of jokes and then one about the shaved head of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith’s wife, who suffers from alopecia.
Suddenly, Will Smith came on stage and punched him in the face. “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” he snapped back in his seat. The ABC network cut the sound.
“Love makes you do crazy things” Smith apologized, crying, as he accepted the Oscar for best actor for “King Richard: A Winning Family.” “Did I miss something?” Then said the humorist Amy Schumer, one of the presenters of the evening, pretending to be naive, with which she drew laughter from the public.
After the evening is over, Los Angeles police clarified that Chris Rock had not filed a complaint.
The Academy, for its part, tweeted that it “does not condone violence in any form,” without making direct reference to what happened.
Help request for Ukraine
It was one of the questions that the organizers asked themselves: how to deal with the drama of the war in Ukraine? Amy Schumer suggested that Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky speak during the evening.
Finally, it was decided to observe a minute of silence during the ceremony, while messages were transmitted that encouraged them to participate in sending humanitarian aid to the country, invaded by Russia.
“President (Joe) Biden, bring home Brittney Griner,” the American basketball player detained for more than a month in Russia, producer Ben Proudfoot also said upon receiving the Oscar for best short documentary for “The Queen of Basketball.”
There have been hardly any references to politics, despite some ironies about the place of women in cinema launched by Amy Schumer during the opening.
“This year, the Academy hired three women as hosts because it’s cheaper than hiring a man,” she joked, surrounded by her two companions, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.
_ A musical evening concluded by Liza Minelli –
A symbol: it was the sisters and American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams, stars of the film “King Richard: A Winning Family”, who introduced Beyoncé to start the evening. She sang “Be Alive,” the movie’s theme song, against an apple-green backdrop, from the tennis courts of Compton, a Los Angeles suburb where the Williams sisters trained as youngsters.
With a week to go before the Grammy Awards, the gala gave a starring role to music, with Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Sebastián Yatra and Megan Thee Stallion, Becky G and Luis Fonsi animating the party with the hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”.
It was another legendary voice, that of the actress and singer Liza Minnelli, who closed the evening with Lady Gaga to deliver the Oscar for best film, the supreme award, which went to “CODA.”
Minnelli, 76, appeared smiling. “I’m so happy to be here,” she said, moving.
Another statuette for “Anita”
60 years ago, the legendary Rita Moreno won the Oscar for best actress cast for her portrayal of Anita in the musical film “Amor Sin Barreras” (“West Side Story”). And this Sunday something unusual happened: Ariana DeBose received the Oscar in the same category for the same role, in the adaptation of Steven Spielberg.
The 31-year-old actress, whose family is Puerto Rican like Rita Moreno, paid tribute to her predecessor, 90, who applauded her in the room. “Your Anita paved the way for thousands of Anitas like me,” she said, referring to the Puerto Rican immigrant character they both played.
“James Bond” turns 60, “The Godfather” 50
The ceremony was an opportunity to blow out the candles on some legendary cinematic works.
First, the 60th anniversary of the first James Bond, “Dr. No”, released in 1962. And what better gift than an Oscar? Billie Eilish won the award for her James Bond theme “No Time to Die.” She wore a black dress and hair of the same color, far from the green streaks of her early days or the more recent Marylin Monroe-esque platinum blonde.
“The Godfather”, the first volume of the trilogy about the Italian-American mafia, turned 50 and the tape “White people do not know how to put it”, 30.
Will Smith’s fit of rage, who hit comedian Chris Rock for joking about his wife’s alopecia, stunned the public during the Oscar ceremony minutes before seeing him cry when receiving the statuette for best actor, but the gala had other highlights, such as the request for help for Ukraine.
Will Smith, a hit, an Oscar and tears
Everything was going according to plan until comedian Chris Rock took the stage to present the Oscar for best documentary. He made a couple of jokes and then one about the shaved head of Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith’s wife, who suffers from alopecia.
Suddenly, Will Smith came on stage and punched him in the face. “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!” he snapped back in his seat. The ABC network cut the sound.
“Love makes you do crazy things” Smith apologized, crying, as he accepted the Oscar for best actor for “King Richard: A Winning Family.” “Did I miss something?” Then said the humorist Amy Schumer, one of the presenters of the evening, pretending to be naive, with which she drew laughter from the public.
After the evening is over, Los Angeles police clarified that Chris Rock had not filed a complaint.
The Academy, for its part, tweeted that it “does not condone violence in any form,” without making direct reference to what happened.
Help request for Ukraine
It was one of the questions that the organizers asked themselves: how to deal with the drama of the war in Ukraine? Amy Schumer suggested that Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky speak during the evening.
Finally, it was decided to observe a minute of silence during the ceremony, while messages were transmitted that encouraged them to participate in sending humanitarian aid to the country, invaded by Russia.
“President (Joe) Biden, bring home Brittney Griner,” the American basketball player detained for more than a month in Russia, producer Ben Proudfoot also said upon receiving the Oscar for best short documentary for “The Queen of Basketball.”
There have been hardly any references to politics, despite some ironies about the place of women in cinema launched by Amy Schumer during the opening.
“This year, the Academy hired three women as hosts because it’s cheaper than hiring a man,” she joked, surrounded by her two companions, Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.
_ A musical evening concluded by Liza Minelli –
A symbol: it was the sisters and American tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams, stars of the film “King Richard: A Winning Family”, who introduced Beyoncé to start the evening. She sang “Be Alive,” the movie’s theme song, against an apple-green backdrop, from the tennis courts of Compton, a Los Angeles suburb where the Williams sisters trained as youngsters.
With a week to go before the Grammy Awards, the gala gave a starring role to music, with Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Sebastián Yatra and Megan Thee Stallion, Becky G and Luis Fonsi animating the party with the hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”.
It was another legendary voice, that of the actress and singer Liza Minnelli, who closed the evening with Lady Gaga to deliver the Oscar for best film, the supreme award, which went to “CODA.”
Minnelli, 76, appeared smiling. “I’m so happy to be here,” she said, moving.
Another statuette for “Anita”
60 years ago, the legendary Rita Moreno won the Oscar for best actress cast for her portrayal of Anita in the musical film “Amor Sin Barreras” (“West Side Story”). And this Sunday something unusual happened: Ariana DeBose received the Oscar in the same category for the same role, in the adaptation of Steven Spielberg.
The 31-year-old actress, whose family is Puerto Rican like Rita Moreno, paid tribute to her predecessor, 90, who applauded her in the room. “Your Anita paved the way for thousands of Anitas like me,” she said, referring to the Puerto Rican immigrant character they both played.
“James Bond” turns 60, “The Godfather” 50
The ceremony was an opportunity to blow out the candles on some legendary cinematic works.
First, the 60th anniversary of the first James Bond, “Dr. No”, released in 1962. And what better gift than an Oscar? Billie Eilish won the award for her James Bond theme “No Time to Die.” She wore a black dress and hair of the same color, far from the green streaks of her early days or the more recent Marylin Monroe-esque platinum blonde.
“The Godfather”, the first volume of the trilogy about the Italian-American mafia, turned 50 and the tape “White people do not know how to put it”, 30.
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