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A manufacturer for the 2023Oscarsexplains how the award ceremonial will address Will Smith ’s now - notorious slap . During the 2022 Oscars ceremony last year , Smith rose from the audience and slap giver Chris Rock on - stage after he made a joke about Jada Pinkett - Smith ’s shaved head , which stems from her alopecia diagnosis . Later that evening , Smith assume the award for Best Actor , and used his speech to apologize to the Academy and to the other campaigner for the ebullition . Smith would publically apologize to Rock via social media the next day .
At a jam conference ( viaVariety ) , Oscars executive producer Molly McNearney says that this year ’s award will notice the smack jokingly , but that the show wo n’t focus too heavily on the incident . While McNearney tell that there is the opportunity to make light of the incident , the Academy does n’t require the 2023 Oscars to be all about the previous year and its malicious gossip . However , with Smith having resigned from the Academy following the smacking , it would be unacceptable to gloss over it in this year ’s presentation . Read McNearney ’s full comment below :
" We ’re run short to admit it , and then we ’re gon na move on . We do n’t require to make this year about last class . It ’s certainly something we can and will address in a comedic fashion . "
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How the Smith-Rock Slap Has Affected the Oscars
While the Academy wants to only shortly acknowledge the slap , the Oscars ' creative team has admitted that substantial changes had to be made for this class ’s observance after last year ’s incident . Smith won the awarding for Best Actor in 2022 , meaning that typically , he would be confront the laurels to the 2023 recipient role . However , with Smith no longer a appendage of the Academy and having been banned from the Oscars for 10 years , this will not be potential . Instead , the squad had to get creative , with showrunner Ricky Kirshner saying " we ’ve rethink the show and we ’ve get presenters that make sense for the categories . "
Alongside changes to the presenter lineup for the 2023 Oscars , the Smith - Rock slap also changed how the Oscars will operate as a live - idiot box event . Kirshner has said that because of last year , the Oscars now has a full crisis team that will be responsible for respond to any unintentional incidents on the live broadcast . Kirshner say that while he hopes there will be no indigence for the crisis squad pass frontward , having one in place ensures that any crises are treat with in a professional , timely manner .
ThoughSmith ’s slap is n’t the first shameful eventto hap on a major live television event , the incident has become synonymous with the 2022 Oscars , and has sure as shooting changed audience expectations of the show live on forwards . With a crisis team now in place , the Academy is in a better position to deal with unexpected incident like the smacking give way ahead . Though it remains to be seen how theOscarswill joke about the incident , it ’s a relief to many that the infamous smacking will be address publicly at all .
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