The academy’s board of governors met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Will Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct.
The academy’s board of governors met Wednesday to initiate disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations against the group’s standards of conduct. The academy said disciplinary action for Smith could include suspension, expulsion or other sanctions.
A representative for the academy declined to give specifics on how it tried to removed Smith. After Smith struck Rock in response to a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, several stars including Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper and Tyler Perry spoke with the 53-year-old Smith. On Monday, Smith issued an apology to Rock, the academy and to viewers, saying “I was out of line and I was wrong.”
Whoopi Goldberg, a member of the academy's board of governors, said Monday on “The View," “We're not going to take that Oscar from him.” Goldberg added that “nobody is OK with what happened”
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