Will Smith Just Threw Away His Oscar Win To Become The Ultimate Wife Guy

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To the delight of our editor-in-chief Stacey Henley, TheGamer team is finally talking about the Oscars. Not because a critically acclaimed gem won Best Adapted Screenplay or Anya Taylor-Joy picked up the Best Actress gong Stacey has always claimed she deserved for The Witch. Nope - Will Smith threw a tantrum and bitchslapped Chris Rock because of a joke regarding his wife, and now the whole internet is on fire.

It was the very first thing I saw on my phone after waking up this morning. Nothing about the winners, not a peep about the nominees, but myriad headlines and different angles of Will Smith laying the smackdown on Chris Rock. I didn’t have the context, but I’m a sucker for drama - as are millions of others apparently - so my relative disinterest in the event turned into one of morbid fascination.

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The Academy Awards are all about the artistry of filmmaking and rewarding the biggest successes of the past year, with a bunch of people coming together to both nominate and crown winners across a slew of different categories. It has long been held in high regard as a ceremony without peer, one so drenched in prestige that even having a chance to attend is seen as an honour. But like much of Hollywood, the overblown drama and immature gossip that defines much of it bleeds through into the mainstream and makes it all seem a bit silly.

Sometimes it can be innocent mistakes, like when La La Land was crowned Best Picture thanks to the presenters being handed the wrong envelope before Moonlight was revealed as the true victor. It was an embarrassing accident, but one we all remember because it was so unprecedented. There was that one time Jennifer Lawrence tripped