Oscars 2022

[Alias #23]

And as soon as a non famous person gets famous because of social media, they should be banned too!

Unless it's because they're kind to pets or something, obviously

 

[RJN]

Just when you think you’ve already seen the most unhinged takes:



(His handle does include comedy but I investigated more and he did not mean this as a joke)

 

[Ellie]

I’m SURE Will Smith would be perfectly OK with potentially sabotaging his career and pulling the mask off his carefully constructed public persona to work with Pfizer to promote a drug that can help with a non life threatening condition.

 

[dmlaw]

OJ Simpson has said the he understands where Will Smith was coming from. And he has never shown any signs of inappropriate anger.

 

[Christian]

The Academy are not happy.

Academy Starts Disciplinary Proceedings Against Will Smith, Expulsion on the Table​

The statement from the Academy is highly damning, citing the standards of conduct and Smith’s violations of “inappropriate physical contact, abusive or threatening behavior, and compromising the integrity of the Academy.”

The Academy also claims that the "King Richard" star refused to leave the ceremony after being asked.

Academy Starts Disciplinary Proceedings Against Will Smith, Expulsion on the Table

Will Smith faces possible expulsion from the Academy of Motion Pictures after assaulting Chris Rock. Oscars claim he refused to leave.

variety.com

 

[RaspberrySwirl]

(It’s offensive I know but) I nearly died!

 

[rhythmbandit]

He's resigned:

Will Smith Resigns from the Academy After Smacking Chris Rock During Oscars: 'I Am Heartbroken'

"I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work," Will Smith said in part in a statement on Friday

people.com

Who was the last major star to resign like this?

 

[GinAg (39)]

 

[Tisch]

 

[GinAg (39)]

Excuse me?

 

[Tisch]

Excuse me?

I give no fucks about him being banned from the Oscars.

Taking away his current Oscar would be a punishment that had some gravitas.

 

[Nancy]

I give no fucks about him being banned from the Oscars.

Taking away his current Oscar would be a punishment that had some gravitas.

Would they have given it to the person who finished in second place?

 

[rhythmbandit]

Would they have given it to the person who finished in second place?

Only if second place was Andrew Garfield.

 

[VoR]

Liza Minnelli was “forced” to appear in a wheelchair against her will at last month’s Oscars, a longtime collaborator has claimed.

Michael Feinstein, a singer and pianist and friend of Minnelli has said that her appearance at the end of the ceremony, in which she presented the best picture award alongside Lady Gaga, left her “very disappointed”.

“She only agreed to appear at the Oscars if she would be in a director’s chair, because she’s been having back trouble,” said Feinstein on Tuesday, speaking on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.

“She said, ‘I don’t want people to see me limping out there.’ She said, ‘You know, I want to look good. I don’t want people to worry about me.’”

Minnelli and Gaga’s presentation of the best picture prize to Coda provided a relatively calm close to a show overshadowed by events an hour or so earlier, when Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock on stage.

This disruption had “shaken up” the organisers, claimed Feinstein, leading them to abruptly change the plan for Minnelli. According to Feinstein, a stage manager informed her just minutes before her appearance that she’d be seated in a wheelchair rather than a director’s chair.

It is not known whether Minnelli was originally supposed to be wheeled on to stage and then transferred to the chair during an ad break or whether she was intended to walk with aid to the chair.

“She was nervous,” said Feinstein, “and it made her look like she was out of it. Can you imagine being suddenly forced to be seen by millions of people the way you don’t want to be seen? That’s what happened to her.”

Earlier this year, Feinstein and Minnelli duetted on Embraceable You for Feinstein’s latest album, Gershwin Country.

Gaga and Minnelli won praise from audiences and critics for their warm and collaborative turn. The pair have been close for more than a decade, and last month Minnelli’s former publicist Scott Gorenstein told People their appearance at the Oscars was at the direct request of Gaga.

Poor Liza

 

[Phoenix]

It doesn’t make a lot of sense, how could she just appear in a director’s chair? However I always find the Oscars habit of wheeling out older people who are out of it to be rather crass.

 

[jivafox]

Minnelli’s former publicist Scott Gorenstein told People their appearance at the Oscars was at the direct request of Gaga.

AKA Gaga threw her into that chair and wheeled her out there herself! That woman is despicable!

 

[GNL]

Poor Liza

It's sweet that she and Gaga are besties though. Italian-American, multi-hyphenate gay icons unite!

 

[VoR]

 

[lolly]

Buckle up FFS Liza

 

[VoR]

She’s 78 and still chain smoking. Clearly she’s still committed to going out like ELSIE

 

[straightorbroken]

Oh to be a gay on her payroll.

 

[Nancy]

Buckle up FFS Liza

CLUNK CLICK

 

[Art Decade]

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have been separated since 2016, she says

Jada Pinkett Smith and husband Will Smith have lived what she says are “completely separate lives” since 2016.

apnews.com