Will Smith’s live punch (Best Actor) steals the show
One thing is certain: it will be one difficult evening to forget. Not for the winners – even if there were some surprises – and not even for the glamor to which the event has accustomed us but which after two years of Covid appears a bit faded. What will remain impressed by the 2022 Oscars will be the reaction Will Smith live at Chris Rock’s unhappy line on the shaved head of his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith, suffering from alopecia.
Slap or punch? The media are divided, but it doesn’t matter: here is one of the most shocking moments in the 94-year history of the Oscars. Back in his seat in the front row, Smith yells bad words: the broadcaster Abc cuts off the audio. Frost falls in the room. Shortly after, in receiving the award for Best Actor for the film “King Richard – A Winning Family”, Will apologizes in tears, “love makes you do crazy things ”, but the Academy does not forgive. That gesture, which overshadows everything else, risks costing him the coveted statuette, the first of his career. And if the fist is the absolute protagonist of the evening, it is the winners and losers who dare to make sense of the oldest prize in the world.
I heart signs (TAIL), defeating the odds, snatches the favorite of the eve, the power of the dog, the heaviest statuette, the one for the Best movie of the year. The most exciting moment comes when, for the same film, deaf-mute actor Troy Kotsur wins the award for best supporting actor: the audience raises their hands applauding in sign language. The power of the dog, candidate a 12 appointmentmust be satisfied with the Oscar for Best Director to Jane Campion.
Best Actress Jessica Chastain while Billie Eilish wins the Oscar for Best Original Song for the film No time to die. The Italians in the race are dry-mouthed: the evening will be remembered for the failed victory of Paolo Sorrentino. The Japanese Drive my car beats It was the Hand of God. war in Ukraine. The night of the Oscars stops for a minute of silence.