Academy Preps For The Unexpected With Crisis Team At Post-Slap Oscars

Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock at last year’s Oscars has led the Academy to craft a crisis team for anything it “many not anticipate” ahead of this year’s ceremony in March. Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, revealed to Time magazine that the organization has installed a “whole crisis team” for the ceremony after Smith’s reaction to a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith was subject of criticism and led to his resignation from the Academy –– and ban from attending the Oscars –– in early 2022. Advertisement “We have a… Read Full Article