Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock Overshadows Apple TV+’s Historic Oscar Win

He then went on to win Best Actor after the stunning altercation

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It should have been Apple TV+’s big night at the 94th Academy Awards after it became the first streamer ever to win a Best Picture Oscar—for CODA—but all anyone could talk about during and after the ceremony was the shocking altercation that occurred onstage earlier in the telecast between Will Smith and Chris Rock.

Rock, while presenting the Oscar for documentary feature Sunday evening, made a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith being in G.I.

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