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This year’s Oscars felt like it lasted forever. It was, to put it mildly, the worst of times: an unhinged award ceremony that could not have ended sooner. Imagine, a high-school reunion that thinks it has entered the speed force when it is really filled with awkward silences, suppressed tension, questionable vessels of love, bizarre fan voted-awards, and a violent, climactic showdown between two overgrown men fighting over a woman. The difference here is that all of the cringe-inducing drama was broadcasted on national television. The Oscars are meant to be a full-throttled celebration of the movies. That the award ceremony is prone to being a trainwreck is well-known information. But the Oscars this year went a step ahead to underline just how much it does not care about the movies.  It goes without saying that in the coming years, the distinctive memory of the night will revolve around a slap (which makes the Best Picture fiasco of 2017 seem like a minor inconvenience in hinds...

Will Smith won the Best Actor award for King Richard , but that is not all he will be remembered for at the 94th Academy Awards ceremony. A ceremony that steadily maintained a buoyant spirit was rocked by an unbelievable exchange after Will Smith took offense to a joke made by Chris Rock about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. After Rock joked to Smith that he was looking forward to a sequel to G.I. Jane,  Smith stood up from his seat near the stage, strode up to Rock, and slapped him. After sitting back down, Smith shouted at Rock to “keep my wife’s name out of your (expletive) mouth.” When Rock, who joked about Jada Pinkett Smith while hosting the Oscars in 2016, protested that it was just a GI Jane  joke, Smith repeated the same line. “That was the greatest night in the history of television,” Rock said, before awkwardly returning to presenting best documentary, which went to Questlove’s Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Was Not Televised). A few minutes later, rapp...