Academy Awards

In an interview with "Good Morning America," Will Packer says the LAPD was ready to take action against Will Smith. But Chris Rock declined to press charges.

Chris Rock performed in Boston just days after getting slapped by Will Smith on the Oscars stage.

"We don't condone anyone hitting anyone else unless it's in self-defense," the father of Venus and Serena Williams told NBC News. Smith won an Oscar for portraying Williams in the movie King Richard.

Will Smith smacked Chris Rock over an insensitive joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. Many in Black hair care saw it as an unfortunate but important moment.

Smith slapped Rock on the Oscars stage after the comedian made a joke at the expense of Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

One year the telecast was actually too short. Another time an actor climbed over rows of chairs between him and his Academy Award. Björk laid eggs on the red carpet. Oscar can go weirdly off script.

AppleTV+ became the first streaming service to win Best Picture for "CODA" — and Best Actor winner Will Smith slapped host Chris Rock for a joke about his wife's hair loss.

After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's medical condition, there are renewed conversations about toxic masculinity and concepts of feminine beauty.

When the moment came for the Oscar show's producers to step up and say that someone who commits violence on live television doesn't get their moment in the winners' circle, the producers blinked.

It's always a bad sign when the academy has to say it doesn't condone violence.