That Was a Crazy Night at the Oscars! Will Smith Slaps Chris Rock, Zack Snyder Films Win Fan Awards, and More

I wasn’t going to watch the Academy Awards this year, but I was invited to a little Oscar party, so I ended up watching, and what in the hell was that all about!? It was one of the strangest, craziest, most ridiculous, and laughable Academy Award ceremonies that I’ve ever seen. The energy of the ceremony was all over the place and it was just so damn odd.

Before I dive into the ridiculousness, I just wanted to say congrats to CODA for all of the awards that it won with Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was one of my favorite movies of the year and I was rooting for it. All of those awards were deserved!

One of the craziest things to happen during the event, though, was when Will Smith slapped the living shit out of Chris Rock after making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. There were a number of jokes aimed at the couple's expense throughout the night, but after Rock made his Joke about Pinkett-Smith starring in a G.I. Jane sequel because of her shaved head, Smith got out of his seat, walked up to Rock, and slapped him across the face! This was a shocking moment and the whole mood of the night changed after that. You can watch it below:

Rock chose not to press charges on Smith after the altercation. I’ve got to say that I respect Rock for keeping his cool under the whole situation and pressing forward with his job as a presenter, even cracking a couple of jokes after. That could have played out so much differently with how heated things got. As for Smith, there was certainly a better and more mature way of handling that.

Smith ended up winning the Best Actor award for his role in King Richard, and after what he did to Chris Rock, there’s nothing he said that I could take seriously because his actions speak louder than words. He’s standing there talking about loving people and being called by God to be some kind of protector shortly after a violent outburst. This was assault and battery in front of millions of people, but I’m sure Hollywood will forgive him.

This dude finally wins an Oscar and his moment is overshadowed by his actions. He won’t be remembered for winning a Best Actor award, he’ll be remembered for completely losing it and smacking Chris Rock in the face… what a shame. That’s all anyone is really talking about. He never even apologized to Rock in his speech. He apologized to everyone else, though!

The Academy released the following statement:

The Academy does not condone violence of any form. Tonight we are delighted to celebrate our 94th Academy Awards winners, who deserve this moment of recognition from their peers and movie lovers around the world.

Now on to some lighter and laughable Oscar humor! Earlier this year, it was announced that the Academy Awards would honor a "Fan-Favorite" film as part of the Oscars as well as a fan-favorite, most exciting scene award that they called the “Oscars Cheer Moment” with fans on Twitter voting by using a special hashtag.

The winner of this silly “Oscars Cheer Moment” was announced during the live telecast on ABC and Zack Snyder's Justice League beat out Spider-Man: No Way Home. The scene that was chosen from the film is when The Flash enters the Speed Force moment from Zack Snyder's Justice League. Yes, this scene beat out the three Spider-Men team up from Spider-Man: No Way Home, which came in second. The Avengers Assemble moment from Avengers: Endgame came in third, Dreamgirls came in fourth with Effie White singing "I'm Telling You", and The Matrix came in fifth with Neo's bullet dodging action scene.

Then there was the big “Fan Favorite Movie Award” moment when Zack Snyder's Netflix zombie-flick Army of the Dead won! I can’t say I’m surprised, this is exactly what I expected would happen when the Oscars had fans on Twitter vote! Tick, Tick … Boom took fifth place, Spider-Man: No Way Home came in fourth, Johnny Depp’s Minamata was third, and Amazon’s Cinderella starring Camila Cabello in second place.

Zack Snyder fans came out in full force to support their boy, and I’ve got to applaud them for pulling it off. It definitely made me laugh! There’s no way these films would have been recognized at an awards ceremony any other way.

Then there was this cool James Bond tribute video that was shared during the program titled “60 Years of Bond”. If you’re a James Bond fan, you’ll enjoy it!

Did you watch the Oscars last night? If so, let us know what you thought about everything!

I’ll close this out by sharing the full list of winners at the Academy Awards for those of you who are interested:

Best Picture

Belfast
WINNER: CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
WINNER: Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Steven Spielberg, West Side Story

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER: Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter
Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman, Being the Ricardos
Kristen Stewart, Spencer

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem, Being the Ricardos
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Andrew Garfield, Tick, Tick... Boom!
WINNER: Will Smith, King Richard
Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
WINNER: Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Judi Dench, Belfast
Kirsten Dunst, The Power of the Dog
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
WINNER: Troy Kotsur, CODA
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
J.K. Simmons, Being the Ricardos
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Best Original Screenplay

WINNER: Kenneth Branagh, Belfast
Adam McKay and David Sirota, Don't Look Up
Zach Baylin, King Richard
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, The Worst Person in the World

Best Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: Siân Heder, CODA
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe, Drive My Car
Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, and Eric Roth, Dune
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog

Best Cinematography

WINNER: Greg Fraser, Dune
Dan Lausten, Nightmare Alley
Ari Wegner, The Power of the Dog
Bruno Delbonnel, The Tragedy of Macbeth
Janusz Kaminski, West Side Story

Best Film Editing

Hank Corwin, Don't Look Up
WINNER: Joe Walker, Dune
Pamela Martin, King Richard
Peter Sciberras, The Power of the Dog
Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum, Tick, Tick... Boom!

Best Animated Feature

WINNER: Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. The Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Best Animated Short

Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
WINNER: The Windshield Wiper

Best Live-Action Short

Ala Kachuu — Take and Run
The Dress
WINNER: The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold

Best International Feature

WINNER: Drive My Car (Japan)
Flee (Denmark)
The Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

Best Documentary Feature

Ascension
Attica
Flee
WINNER: Summer of Soul
Writing with Fire

Best Documentary Short

Audible
Lead Me Home
WINNER: The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies

Best Original Score

Nicholas Britell, Don't Look Up
WINNER: Hans Zimmer, Dune
Germaine Franco, Encanto
Alberto Iglesias, Parallel Mothers
Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog

Best Original Song

"Be Alive" from King Richard — Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
"Dos Oruguitas" from Encanto — Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Down to Joy" from Belfast — Music and Lyric by Van Morrison
WINNER: "No Time to Die" from No Time to Die — Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
"Somehow You Do" from Four Good Days — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Best Sound

Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather, and Niv Adiri, Belfast
WINNER: Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill, and Ron Bartlett, Dune
Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey, and Mark Taylor, No Time to Die
Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie, and Tara Webb, The Power of the Dog
Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson, and Shawn Murphy, West Side Story

Best Costume Design

WINNER: Jenny Beavan, Cruella
Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran, Cyrano
Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan, Dune
Luis Sequeira, Nightmare Alley
Paul Tazewell, West Side Story

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer, Coming 2 America
Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon, Cruella
Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, Dune
WINNER: Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh, The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras, House of Gucci

Best Production Design

WINNER: Dune — Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos
Nightmare Alley — Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
The Power of the Dog — Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards
The Tragedy of Macbeth — Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
West Side Story — Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo

Best Visual Effects

WINNER: Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor, and Gerd Nefzer, Dune
Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, and Dan Sudick, Free Guy
Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner, and Chris Corbould, No Time to Die
Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker, and Dan Oliver, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein, and Dan Sudick, Spider-Man: No Way Home.