Oscars TV Review: Will Smith’s Unscripted Slap Of Chris Rock Turns Stumbling Show Into Stunning Spectacle

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Two years into a global pandemic, the 2022 Oscars initially appeared intent on becoming the Grammys tonight. Kicking off with an introduction by the legendary Venus and Serena Williams and leaping …

star joked, will not do much to resurrect the nearly century old troubled Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences event. Producers Packer and Cowan may have promised a sleeker and modernized show, but what they ended up with was a scratchy mixtape of the 1990s MTV Movie Awards, the Grammys and the currently defrocked Golden Globes that at times screamed out for a Rob Lowe and Snow White cameo.

Taking lead in the first hour, Schumer set the tone doing her best Ricky Gervais impersonation. That was soon followed by a clothed Chippendale on-stage line-up of Tyler Perry Bradley Cooper, the shirtless Timothée Chalamett, and Simu Liu played into a juvenile meld of Tinder and Covid protocol requirements, which only became more cringe inducing when Hall gave Josh Brolin a beeped out pat down.

None of which should diminish that history was made with Ariana DeBose winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Anita in Steven Spielberg’ss Troy Kotsur won the Best Supporting Actor award. The first queer woman of color to win an acting Oscar, DeBose’s triumph is also the second time an actress took home the Oscar for playing the Broadway character, following Rita Moreno‘s win in 1962.

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