{"id":429118,"date":"2022-04-09T02:41:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/academy-never-took-away-harveys-oscar-so-how-could-they-not-let-off-will-smith\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T02:41:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T23:41:11","slug":"academy-never-took-away-harveys-oscar-so-how-could-they-not-let-off-will-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/academy-never-took-away-harveys-oscar-so-how-could-they-not-let-off-will-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"#Academy never took away Harvey&#8217;s Oscar &#8212; so how could they not let off Will Smith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41012294b68\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41012294b68\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/academy-never-took-away-harveys-oscar-so-how-could-they-not-let-off-will-smith\/#%E2%80%9CAcademy_never_took_away_Harveys_Oscar_%E2%80%94_so_how_could_they_not_let_off_Will_Smith%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Academy never took away Harvey&#8217;s Oscar &#8212; so how could they not let off Will Smith?&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAcademy_never_took_away_Harveys_Oscar_%E2%80%94_so_how_could_they_not_let_off_Will_Smith%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Academy never took away Harvey&#8217;s Oscar &#8212; so how could they not let off Will Smith?&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Maureen Callahan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/maureen-callahan-author2.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Talk about a Slap \u2014 on the wrist.<\/p>\n<p>After announcing a weeks-long investigation into an unprovoked assault that millions saw in real time \u2014 like it\u2019s Watergate! \u2014 the Academy finally meted out Will Smith\u2019s punishment: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/04\/08\/will-smith-punishment-for-chris-rock-slap\/?_ga=2.171931624.995601147.1649360202-650761268.1635186450\">Banned from the Oscars<\/a> for 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Say it isn\u2019t so!<\/p>\n<p>This is meant to hurt? Banishment from the longest, most painfully unfunny and irrelevant awards show going? Will Smith can\u2019t present Best Actress next year?<\/p>\n<p>It would all be funny if it weren\u2019t so pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/04\/08\/will-smith-responds-to-academys-10-year-ban\/?_ga=2.8812413.995601147.1649360202-650761268.1635186450\"> gave Will Smith a gift.<\/a> It\u2019s not like he\u2019s banned from the after-parties. It\u2019s not like he\u2019s banned from making <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> or from getting nominated again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like he\u2019s had his Oscar s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the real problem. For all its public handwringing, the Academy was never, ever going to take Will Smith\u2019s Oscar away. Whoopi Goldberg, who sits on the Academy\u2019s Board of Governors, said it plainly and decisively on \u201cThe View\u201d the morning after The Slap \u2014 it wasn\u2019t going to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it wasn\u2019t. As long as Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski still have their Oscars, who really thought the Academy would rescind Smith\u2019s over a slap?<\/p>\n<p>The Academy already set their bar. They can\u2019t hold Smith to a higher standard than serial rape or drugging and sodomizing a child.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-3.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Will Smith, right, hits presenter Chris Rock on stage while presenting the award for best documentary feature \" class=\"wp-image-21837038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The slap was seen around the world by those viewing the Oscars. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But since Will Smith smacked Chris Rock onstage, on live TV, they had to do <em>something<\/em>. Call me crazy, but doesn\u2019t it seem like Hollywood\u2019s only interested in doing the right thing if a crowd is watching? It\u2019s an institutional occupational hazard, I guess.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Jim Carrey had it right last week when he called Hollywood spineless. As if to prove his point, celebrity bootlicker Gayle King tried to excuse Smith, insisting that the moment with Rock had \u201cescalated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carrey cut her right off: \u201cIt didn\u2019t escalate,\u201d he said. \u201cIt came out of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. We all saw the same thing. This isn\u2019t \u201cRashomon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But King\u2019s feckless feint proves how sick celebrity culture is.<\/p>\n<p>The notion that rich, famous, powerful people will do whatever they please, with zero regard for consequences \u2014 because consequences most often never come \u2014 is the rule, not the exception.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith is a monster of Hollywood\u2019s own making. His enormous, diseased ego flourished in their petri dish. He has zero conception of real life, decent behavior, shame. So really, who are they to judge him? Watch Smith\u2019s smirk and his swagger as he leaves the stage after smacking Rock, so proud of himself, so sure that his A-list status meant his peers would celebrate him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-4.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Will Smith arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party \" class=\"wp-image-21837039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/smith-oscars-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Will Smith arrives in high spirits to the Vanity Fair Oscars Party following the infamous slap.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And they did.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite was Trevor Noah, that smug, sanctimonious voice of high-minded progressivism, beaming next to Big Man Will after The Slap.<\/p>\n<p>Square that circle.<\/p>\n<p>As for Smith, he\u2019ll be fine. He\u2019s already issued a humble pie statement of \u201caccept[ing] and respect[ing]\u201d this ruling. He\u2019ll go to rehab, give a tearful sit down to Oprah or Gayle \u2014 primetime, of course \u2014 peddle his childhood traumas and marital woes in exchange for forgiveness. Time will pass and Smith will become the underdog. His redemption arc will be complete when he presents Best Actress to Shiloh Jolie-Pitt in 2033.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Academy? Not hard to imagine the relief after today\u2019s meeting. After all, at least they\u2019re not the Golden Globes.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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