Will Smith RESPONDS After Academy Bans Him for 10 Years

today the big news will smith's academy fate is sealed [Music] will smith just smack out of me will smith is banned from attending an oscar ceremony for the next 10 years that was the academy's decision after meeting on zoom for nearly three hours this morning will is still apparently eligible for future nominations but in an open letter the academy called out his behavior in the first sentence describing his conduct as unacceptable and harmful will responded i accept and respect the academy's decision the 64-member board also praised chris rock for quote his composure under extraordinary circumstances that was a greatest night in the history of television and the academy apologized for its handling of the incident writing during our telecast we did not adequately address the situation in the room for this we are sorry all along it was unlikely that the academy was going to revoke will's oscar insiders point out the academy has not revoked oscar wins for even the most disgraced winners like harvey weinstein and roman polanski who were accused of sexual assault we're not going to take that oscar from him academy board member whoopi goldberg who generally has fridays off on the view did not appear on today's live show she was presumably on the academy zoom other a-listers on the board include laura dern rita wilson ava duvernay and steven spielberg today's board meeting wasn't the only drama for will and jada i would say don't just start filming me without asking me a resurfaced video of the couple talking about their marriage is going viral i'm still dealing with foolishness don't no i know she yeah because she could daunt us jada was discussing an upcoming red table talk episode in 2019 when she captured this tense moment would you say that she helped us heal the hurts that we caused between one another my social media presence is my bread and butter okay so you can't just use me for social media and not you know don't just start bro i'm standing in my house don't just start rolling [Music]

Channel: Entertainment Tonight

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Keywords: ET Broadcast, Oscars, Will Smith

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Length: 2min 17sec (137 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 08 2022