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  • When you damage my little one, you damage me: Chris Rock’s mother reacts to Will Smith slapping her son at Oscars

    By ANI

    UNITED STATES: Nearly after a month of the 2022 Oscars slap controversy, Rose Rock has reacted to actor Will Smith slapping her son Chris Rock through the dwell telecast of the award ceremony.

    As per The Hollywood Reporter, Rose Rock, who’s an creator and motivational speaker, instructed an outlet that her son is doing nicely however “still processing” the incident that led Smith to resign from the Academy, following which the group introduced that the Oscar winner for ‘King Richard’ is banned from all occasions, together with the Oscars ceremonies, for the subsequent 10 years.

    “I told someone when Will slapped Chris, he slapped all of us, but he really slapped me. When you hurt my child, you hurt me,” Rose Rock mentioned. Rose mentioned she has no concept what she would say to Smith at any time when they may cross paths.

    “I have no idea what I would say other than, ‘What in the world were you thinking?’ Because you did a slap, but so many things could have happened. Chris could have stepped back and fallen. You really could have gotten taken out in handcuffs. You didn’t think. You reacted to your wife giving you the side-eye, and you went up, and you made her day because she was bowled over laughing when it happened,” Rose mentioned.

    She additionally shared her ideas on the 10-year ban and mentioned, “What does that mean? You don’t even go every year.”

    Rose mentioned she did not suppose the Academy ought to have taken away Smith’s Oscar, and went on to say she was “really, really proud” of how her son reacted for the time being. She added that she did not suppose the apology Smith posted to his Instagram account on the day after the ceremony felt real.

    “I feel really bad that he never apologized. His people wrote up a piece and said, ‘I apologize to Chris Rock,’ but something like that is personal. You reach out,” Rose Rock mentioned.

    The incident occurred when Chris Rock made a joke about Smith’s spouse Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head whereas presenting one of the best documentary characteristic award on the 2022 Oscars.

    Rock mentioned he could not wait to see Pinkett Smith, who has alopecia areata, star in ‘G.I. Jane 2’ which led Smith to go up on stage and slap Rock. Smith returned to his seat and shouted, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***** mouth!”

    A couple of minutes after the incident, Smith was introduced Best Actor on the 94th Academy Awards. While accepting his first-ever Oscar for finest actor (main position) in ‘King Richard’, Smith apologized to the Academy and fellow nominees however didn’t point out Rock.

    For the unversed, Will Smith just lately visited India marking her first public look publish the controversy. He was noticed at a non-public airport in Mumbai on Saturday. 

  • Oscars 2022: Will Smith punches Chris Rock over joke about spouse Jada Pinkett

    By ANI

    LOS ANGELES: American actor Will Smith punched comic Chris Rock after he acquired miffed on the latter’s joke directed at his spouse Jada Pinkett Smith in the course of the 94th Academy Awards.

    After slapping Rock, Smith walked again and used expletives, saying: “Keep my wife’s name out of your *** mouth”. As per Variety, Rock appeared on stage to current the Oscar for documentary characteristic and he then made a joke about Jada-Pinkett Smith (Will Smith’s spouse) being in ‘G.I. Jane’ due to her shaved bald head.

    Initially, Smith was laughing however Jada clearly appeared affected by the joke. Smith then took to the stage to punch Rock.

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    Many within the ceremony appeared shocked by the altercation. Diddy, who was the following presenter addressed the state of affairs by saying: “Will and Chris, we’re going to solve that like family. Right now we’re moving on with love. Everybody make some nose.”

    Last 12 months, Jada Pinkett Smith had introduced that she shaved her head after scuffling with alopecia. Talking about Will Smith, the actor is nominated within the Best Actor Category for ‘King Richard’.

    The 94th Academy Awards are being held on the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood and the ceremony is being hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes. The nominations for the Oscars have been introduced on February 8 this 12 months by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan.

  • 2022 Oscars: AMPAS decides to current 8 awards earlier than reside telecast 

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has determined that winners for eight classes can be introduced off air throughout the 2022 Oscars, a transfer that acquired prompt backlash from the inventive neighborhood and the general public.

    On Tuesday, Academy President David Rubin despatched a letter to the nominees and AMPAS members, informing them of the adjustments which might be meant to enhance the dwindling viewership numbers of the Oscars broadcast.

    The 94th Academy Awards will start an hour earlier to current eight awards classes — Documentary Short, Film Editing, Make-up and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short, Live Action Short, and Sound — earlier than the reside telecast begins.

    The shows for these classes can be included later within the reside broadcast, reported Variety.

    “After carefully listening to feedback and suggestions from our film community, our network partner, and all those who love the Oscars, it was evident we needed to make some decisions about the broadcast that are in the best interest of the future of our show and our organisation,” Rubin wrote within the letter.

    “When deciding how to produce the Oscars, we recognise it’s a live event television show and we must prioritise the television audience to increase viewer engagement and keep the show vital, kinetic, and relevant. This has been an important focus of discussion for quite some time. We do this while also remembering the importance of having our nominees relish a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” he added.

    Rubin additional mentioned the adjustments will enable organisers extra time and alternative for “audience entertainment and engagement through comedy, musical numbers, film clip packages and movie tributes”.

    He acknowledged that the adjustments may invite a backlash however he acknowledged that the purpose was to discover a “balance in which nominees, winners, members, and viewing audience all have a rewarding show experience”.

    “Moving forward we will assess this change and will continue to look for additional ways to make our show more entertaining and more thrilling for all involved, inside the Dolby Theatre and watching from home,” he added.

    As Rubin predicted, the choice was not taken nicely by the general public with actors Melanie Lynskey and Patton Oswalt criticising the adjustments.

    “Don’t Look Up” star Lynskey mentioned that she desires to see the winners of all 23 classes introduced throughout the reside telecast.

    “I love acceptance speeches. I love craftspeople being honoured for what they do. Production design is the category I’m most excited about this year (except for Best Actress because anything could happen!!) I want to see all of the awards #AcademyAwards” she tweeted.

    I like acceptance speeches. I like craftspeople being honoured for what they do. Production design is the class I’m most enthusiastic about this yr (apart from Best Actress as a result of something may occur!!) I need to see all the awards #AcademyAwards

    — Melanie Lynskey (@melanielynskey) February 23, 2022

    Oswalt known as the Academy’s transfer “dumb and disrespectful”.

    “NONE of these categories are being televised? You’re giving in to short-term ratings panic and forgetting what The Oscars are all about. PLEASE re-think this, and televise these categories. You’ll be bragging about having this footage in the future. BE about the future, not about the present, ephemeral froth of clicks and likes. Please,” he wrote in a thread on Twitter.

    Many social media customers additionally voiced their disappointment over the adjustments.

    Using the hashtag #PresentAll23, one person wrote, “I can not wait till ABC and the academy board realise that most individuals don’t give a single f**ok about awards, together with the #Oscars.

    It’s our little bubble and the trade that care probably the most. This determination is 50 shades of STUPID.

    “Another person tweeted, “Wow it is virtually just like the Oscars aren’t actually about honoring high quality filmmaking and are nearly celebrities and PR.”

    One Twitterati known as the adjustments “the ultimate insult to the art of filmmaking”.

    “Without score, makeup, hair, editing, sound, production design you would have nothing. Why distort the show? ARE YOU REALLY going to Edit Joe Walker and Hank Corwin and Myron Kerstein? #Oscars” the individual wrote.

    This isn’t the primary time that the Academy has tried at bumping sure classes out of the reside broadcast.

    In 2018, the AMPAS had introduced that 4 Oscar awards could be introduced throughout business breaks for the 91st Academy Awards.

    At the time, filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro had been amongst those that had criticised the organisation for the choice.

    Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall will host the 94th version of the Academy Awards, which can be held on March 27.

  • Oscars 2022: How the Academy has modified the Best Picture class

    Every 12 months the Academy’s management board critiques classes and potential adjustments. That’s meant some classes — juvenile performing, dance course and cut up winners for black-and-white and colour movies — have gone away. Best image, movie’s highest honor, ceaselessly will get reviewed. Remember the transient second not too way back when there was going to be a preferred Oscar class?

    This 12 months one such change takes impact: 10 finest image contenders might be introduced come nomination morning on Feb. 8. Here’s what to anticipate:
    WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE BEST PICTURE CATEGORY THIS YEAR?
    There might be 10 motion pictures introduced as finest image nominees for the 94th Oscars on Tuesday. For the previous decade, it’s been a sliding vary of 5 to 10 nominees. Most years had eight or 9.
    IS THIS UNPRECEDENTED?
    No, the academy has shifted the variety of finest image nominees a number of instances. In the Thirties and early Forties, eight to 12 movies may very well be nominated in any given 12 months. In 1944, it shifted to 5 and in 2009 it was expanded to 10. Then, in 2011, they went to 5 to 10.
    Oscars’ largest viewers got here in 1998 when over 55 million viewers tuned in to look at Titanic sweep the awards. (Photo: Paramount Pictures)
    WHY DOES IT MATTER?
    Just a few causes. A finest image nomination is a superb asset to a film. It will increase consciousness and might usually result in a field workplace bump (though this 12 months could also be an exception due to the pandemic). But, maybe most significantly, many imagine that increasing the sphere to 10 can open nominations as much as genres that aren’t sometimes regarded as Oscar-material, together with comic-book movies. Many assumed the 2009 change was a direct response to The Dark Knight not getting a nomination. The typical pondering is that when common movies are nominated, extra viewers will tune in for the present, which has seen declining rankings through the years. The present’s largest viewers got here in 1998 when over 55 million viewers tuned in to look at Titanic sweep the awards.
    Does Spider-Man: No Way Home has an opportunity at this 12 months’s Oscars? (Photo: Sony Pictures)
    SO WILL SPIDER-MAN GET NOMINATED THIS YEAR?
    The largest blockbuster of the pandemic, Spider-Man: No Way Home, doesn’t appear to have a lot of an opportunity at a finest image nomination anymore contemplating it didn’t get a Producers Guild nod. Same for the James Bond pic No Time To Die. But there may very well be surprises on Tuesday morning.

    WHO VOTES FOR BEST PICTURE NOMINEES?
    Most classes restrict nomination voting to their particular department (actors nominate actors, costume designers nominate costume designers), however all academy members can vote for finest image.
    WHAT OTHER BEST PICTURE CHANGES ARE IN THE WORKS?
    New inclusion requirements for finest image hopefuls have been introduced in 2020 and are supposed to encourage variety and equitable illustration on display screen and off, addressing gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity and incapacity, however received’t go into impact till the 96th Academy Awards in 2024.

  • Oscars 2022 strikes to late March, retains 2021 pandemic eligibility guidelines

    Planning is already underway for the 94th Oscars, which will likely be held on March 27, 2022, the movie academy and ABC stated on Thursday.
    After a yr of disruption, innovation and catastrophically low scores, the Academy Awards are getting again to enterprise as normal. The present will return to the Dolby Theatre for its ABC broadcast and the eligibility window will as soon as once more shut on the finish of the calendar yr.
    This previous yr, the academy prolonged the eligibility window into February and cancelled non-televised occasions just like the Governors Awards and the Nominees Luncheon due to the pandemic. All these trimmings are actually again on the schedule, with the Governors Awards set for January 15 and the luncheon to be held on March 7. Nominations will likely be introduced on February 8.
    The academy stated, nevertheless, that dates stay topic to alter. The organisation can be acknowledging that the film enterprise remains to be being impacted by the pandemic and are extending the streaming eligibility caveat they adopted final yr into the 2021 awards season. That implies that movies don’t essentially must have a theatrical run to qualify and may debut on streaming or video on demand providers.
    The finish of March broadcast date is far later than normal for Hollywood’s greatest awards present. Originally the 94th version was set to air on February 27, however that month can be crowded with main stay occasions, together with the 2022 Olympics and the Super Bowl.
    The viewers for the 93rd Oscars, which was held at Los Angeles’ Union Station in late April, was lower than half of its earlier low, with solely 9.85 million viewers tuning in to observe Nomadland win greatest image. It was par for the course for a pandemic awards present: Both the Golden Globes (6.9 million viewers) and Grammy Awards (9.2 million) had file low audiences as properly.
    And subsequent yr will likely be totally different with out the Golden Globes, which usually airs in early January, stealing among the Oscars thunder. NBC stated earlier this yr that it will not air the Golden Globes in 2022 amid controversies and requires reform throughout the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organisation that places it on.