The Cinema Academy of Arts and Sciences, which delivers the Oscars, apologized in a statement of its mismanagement of the event, and announces a disciplinary meeting on April 18th.
Le Monde with AFP
The Cinema Academy of Arts and Sciences, which resets the Oscars, announced in a statement, Wednesday, March 30, “that it was asked [the American actor Will] Smith to leave the ceremony and that He refused “, after he slapped the humorist Chris Rock during the ceremony held on Sunday in Los Angeles.
“We also recognize that we could have managed the situation differently”, nevertheless admitted the Academy, whose board of directors has opened a “disciplinary procedure against Will Smith due to violations [of its ] Regulation, which includes inappropriate physical contacts, abusive or dangerous behavior and the compromise of the integrity of the Academy “, also announces the release.
” Disciplinary Action “
A possible “disciplinary action” against him will be discussed at a meeting scheduled on April 18, she adds. It could include the suspension or exclusion of Will Smith of the Academy, which has thousands of members. The American cinema institution gives the actor 15 days before the academy is slice, providing him with “the opportunity to be heard by means of a written answer”, continues the text.
This is a joke of Chris Rock on the shaved skull of Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, with alopecia – a disease causing an important hair loss, which she revealed to suffer here a few years – who had triggered the esclandre.
Will Smith was suddenly mounted on stage and had slapped Chris Rock, under the cloistered eye of celebrities and viewers. Will Smith, awarded shortly after the incident by the Oscar for the best actor for his role in the Williams method, has since apologized to Chris Rock and the Academy.