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For many, nothing will register more than returning to the site of The Slap. In a way, we’re all still living in that frozen-in-time moment. Chris Rock’s face twisted to the side. Will Smith’s arm dramatically extended. A deathly hush over the Dolby Theatre.

Goldie Hawn isn’t a fan of how the Academy Awards has changed over the years, saying the annual ceremony “used to be elegant.” Now, “things have become politicized,” she said.

A global petition demanding the Oscars Committee remove John Wick star Donnie Yen from the presenter list at the 95th Academy Awards is gathering pace, with upwards of 60,000 signatories objecting to the presence of the veteran supporter of China’s ruling Communist dictatorship.

Actor Donnie Yen’s invitation to join the presenter list at the 2023 Oscars has been attacked by critics after he derided the 2019 pro-democracy Hong Kong protests in an interview.

Americans are so turned off by Hollywood, Oscar-bait, and prestige films that they are not only flopping at the box office; they are being ignored at their respective streaming platforms.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did little in response to Smith storming the stage and slapping Rock during last year’s Oscars telecast or in the immediate aftermath. It was nearly two weeks before its board of governors voted to ban Smith from the Oscars and all other academy events for 10 years. Smith had already preemptively resigned as an academy member.

Actress Danielle Deadwyler missed out on an Oscar nomination this year for her performance in “Till” despite Hollywood pundits predicting she was a lock. Now the actress is blaming the snub on a combination of racism and sexism — or “misogynoir,” the woke term meaning prejudice against black women.

Barry Diller has run two studios, Paramount and Fox, and believes (correctly) that the Oscars and the movie business are both dead.

The Woman King director Gina Prince-Blythewood still can’t get over the fact that Academy voters didn’t care for her movie, which was completely shut out of this year’s Oscar nominations despite heavy campaigning by Sony.

If sanity ever returns to the American culture, writer/director Todd Field’s brilliant and hypnotizing “Tár” will be remembered as the only honest document of the disgraceful Woke Era.

Did the unconventional Oscar campaign that netted British star Andrea Riseborough a surprise Best Actress nomination this week violate Academy rules?

One of the biggest surprises in this year’s Oscar nominations was actress Andrea Riseborough, who was recognized for her lead performance as an alcoholic in the little-seen indie drama “To Leslie.” Now the British actress is facing growing accusations of white privilege and claims that she usurped the spot from black actresses including Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been swept up in yet another race scandal. The director of “Till,” which dramatizes the horrific murder of black 14-year-old Emmett Till at the hands of white supremacists, accused the Oscars of “upholding whiteness” after they snubbed her movie in all categories.

No girl received a nomination for Best Director, and now a lot of dumb people are angry and outraged.

My favorite part of Oscar season (other than not caring about Oscar season) is all the crybabying over the supposed snubs.

In an increasingly rare confluence of popular opinion and elite Academy taste, the non-woke “Top Gun: Maverick” scored six Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, including best picture and adapted screenplay.

An actor who stars in the Oscar-hopeful movie Corsage has been charged with possession of child pornography and is expected to plead guilty.

There was a time when Oscar heat meant big bucks at the box office. Those days are over.

In the now-gender-neutral “Best Lead Performance” category, and to the surprise of no one, men got royally screwed.

Two-time Oscar winner Paul Haggis has been found liable for raping a woman in 2013.

This  year, Hollywood and the news media took a knee for Sacheen Littlefeather. Woke news outlets including NPR, the New York Times, and Variety ran glowing articles identifying her as a Native American who was unjustly ridiculed and shunned by

Hollywood star Mila Kunis has slammed her fellow celebrities for giving Will Smith a standing ovation at the Academy Awards just after Smith assaulted Chris Rock live onstage.

Oscar voters are already saying they won’t cast their ballots for Will Smith in Emancipation, with some arguing it is still too soon after the actor infamously slapped Chris Rock onstage during the last Oscars telecast.

Less than a year after he became a Hollywood pariah for slapping Chris Rock live onstage at the Oscars, Will Smith is already mounting his comeback, with Apple Studios setting a December theatrical release date for the slavery drama “Emancipation.”

Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to refuse his Oscar in 1973, has died. She was 75.

Still residing on the left side of the aisle politically, Sasha Stone of Awards Daily is openly rebelling against the Woke Terror.

When only 20 percent of your own Academy members view the Oscar telecast positively, Oscar has a big, big problem on its hands.

Pinkett Smith’s celebration of her bald head comes nearly six months after her husband Will Smith marched onto the stage at the Oscars and smacked comedian Chris Rock across the face in response to a joke he made about his wife’s short hair — which she has due to alopecia.

Five-time-Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is out there blasting woke film critics as racist.

Comedian Chris Rock slammed actor Will Smith over his infamous Oscars slap, saying, “the motherfucker hit me over a bullshit joke, the nicest joke I ever told.”

Comedian Chris Rock reportedly declined to host the 2023 Academy Awards following the infamous slap he received.

Five months after Will Smith assaulted comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards, the once-universally beloved actor (and never universally-beloved wife) have seen their popularity (or Q scores) take a steep dive:

Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to her for the abuse she endured.

With his career in a tailspin, former superstar Will Smith released a rather bizarre video Friday where he apologizes again to comedian Chris Rock.

How refreshing in our current culture to have a celebrity declare that he is not — repeat, NOT — a victim.

Actress Vivica A. Fox called Will Smith’s wife actress Jada Pinkett Smith “self-righteous,” adding that she wanted “more accountability” from her after she addressed her husband’s infamous Oscars slap Wednesday on Red Table Talk.