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MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reacted on Monday to actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock over a joke he told at the Oscars.

Actor Will Smith seemed entirely unperturbed Sunday night as he joined the Hollywood elites for the Vanity Fair Oscars after party, just hours after he appeared to slap comedian Chris Rock on stage in front of a global audience.

For 30 seconds, the Oscars went silent for Ukraine.

The producers behind the 94th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night have drawn fire from critics who called it “insensitive” to accompany two black presenters as they took the stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles with Toto’s “Africa.”

“The Academy does not condone violence of any form,” it tweeted, after Will Smith received an Oscar after assaulting Chris Rock.

Actor John Leguizamo caught some backlash after he praised the “beautiful Latinx faces” in the audience at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday evening.

Actress Jessica Chastain won the Academy Award for Best Actress wherein she knocked “bigoted legislation” across the country.

Actor Will Smith revealed in his Oscar-winning acceptance speech on Sunday that Denzel Washington gave him a word of warning after Smith smacked presenter Chris Rock in face earlier in the evening.

Social media lit up with hot takes and reactions to the wild moment at the Oscars when Will Smith appeared to slap comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

Celebrities attending Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony will still win big, even if they don’t take home an award, as nominees will receive gift bags worth $100k, including trips to a castle in Scotland — proving yet again the hollowness of the film industry’s climate activism.

In what is sure to be the most baffling and talked about moments of Sunday’s Oscars, actor Will Smith appeared to strike presenter Chris Rock in the face on stage apparently over a joke that Rock told about Smith’s wife.

The Academy Awards wasted little time getting political on Sunday as co-host Wanda Sykes slammed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, announcing on live television that “we’re going to have a gay night.”

The 94th Academy Awards is underway at 8 p.m. Eastern live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Hollywood stars chose to go maskless for the 94th annual Academy Awards on Sunday even as local preschoolers enrolled in the Los Angeles Unified School District are still being forced to wear masks while indoors.

After going hostless for several years, the Academy Awards have not one but three hosts to help juice the Oscars’ low ratings — but producers have baffingly tapped some of Hollywood’s most politically divisive celebrities for the job.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, one of this year’s most prominent Oscar nominees, will sit out the ceremony after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

During a night of Hollywood self-congratulation after two years of pandemic and while Russia’s war ravages Ukraine, Oscars producers said the war in Ukraine will be respectfully acknowledged during the broadcast.

Actor Sean Penn said Saturday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Academy Awards should be boycotted if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not invited to speak virtually.

As inflation continues to soar, gas prices skyrocket, and the southern border crisis goes unaddressed, President Joe Biden (D) spent time this week rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars as the cast of the Oscar-nominated movie “CODA” visited the White House.

In its latest bid to boost its sinking ratings, the Academy Awards is turning in desperation to Instagram influencers in what appears like an effort to persuade younger viewers to watch ABC’s live telecast.

After years of prostrating itself before Communist China, Hollywood is now reaping the results of its Faustian bargain. China is blocking more and more Hollywood blockbusters from domestic screens, including major Marvel and Pixar titles that depend heavily on foreign audiences to break even.

The upcoming race for Best Picture is a “true toss-up” between two movies no one has watched, reports the far-left Hollywood Reporte

Rachel Zegler, Hispanic star of the box office flop Woke Side Story, wasn’t invited by Disney to the Oscars.

Five-time Oscar-nominated sound engineer Tom Fleischman has resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Faced with collapsing ratings, ABC reportedly threatened to cancel this year’s Oscars unless the Academy took the drastic step of cutting several categories from the live telecast.

Samuel L. Jackson is still sore that his performance in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991) didn’t earn him an Oscar nomination. So he is lashing out at the Academy, accusing it of denigrating black actors by giving them Oscars for “doing despicable shit on screen.”

The Academy Awards is taking the unprecedented step of demoting eight categories — including film editing and original score — from its upcoming live ABC telecast on March 27 in what appears to be an attempt to reverse the show’s plummeting ratings, which hit an all-time low last year.

The upcoming Academy Awards will have a two-tier system of coronavirus restrictions by requiring nominees and guests to be vaccinated but not presenters.

The Academy Awards is aiming to lift its TV ratings out of the toilet with the introduction of a “fan favorite” award for best picture, which will be voted on by Twitter users. While the new award isn’t an official category and therefore won’t receive an Oscar statuette, the winner will be announced on ABC’s live Oscars telecast on March 27.

The Academy Awards is about to get a triple dose of left-wing wokeness as Amy Schumer is reportedly set to host this year’s Oscars ceremony along with comedian Wanda Sykes and Scary Movie star Regina Hall. Together, they have smeared Trump voters as racists, demanded the rollback of voter identification requirements, and joined forces with Michelle Obama to push vote by mail.

Any trucker looking to call attention to injustice and human rights abuses need not look any further than the Oscars. 

Actor Seth Rogen has said the quiet part out loud and confessed the truth about self-important Hollywood award shows, like the Oscars: America doesn’t seem to care about them anymore.

The Academy Awards reportedly won’t require the COVID-19 vaccination for in-person attendees of the March 27 ceremony, though attendees will have to submit a negative COVID-19 test taken the day of the Oscars.

Congratulations to newly minted Oscar nominees “Denoo Vellnoove,” “Korine Hines,” and “Yooakim Treer”– or as they’re known in real life, director Denis Villeneuve, actor Ciarán Hinds, and director Joachim Trier.

The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we’ve seen in a long time.

Feb. 8 (UPI) — Netflix’s The Power of the Dog was nominated for a leading 12 Academy Awards — including Best Picture — in Los Angeles Tuesday morning.