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Fridays and Saturdays used to be big nights for television. That they're considered a dead zone these days is a fairly recent occurrence.

Death threats seem to be many wackos' "go to" these days if they're offended by something. Very sad.

One of these things is not like the others. ;)

Chris Rock did his good turn by not pressing charges and not having Smith forcibly removed from the building in handcuffs. I don't think Rock needs to make any additional overtures. Smith made his bed. Let him lay in it.

The only punishment here is that he cannot enter the Kodak Theater for 10 years. Nothing more. He's still eligible to be nominated and win an award. He just cannot collect it in-person if he wins. Talk about cruel & unusual.

They wouldn't take back the Oscar even if they had the power. The worst they can do here is a permanent ban from the Academy so that he's never eligible for another award.

They handled it like Hollywood does, making excuses and exceptions for a big star. In the real world security would have escorted him from the building. They asked him to leave and he refused? He doesn't get to make that decision. He's an invited guest at that event. If the host asks you to...

It's all fun and games until Jada rolls her eyes. As Tony pointed out, I've never seen her express any sense of humor about much of anything. Translation: "Will, you'd better do something about this or when I get home I'm taking your balls out of my purse and putting them down the garbage...

She goes to the same guy that works on Dolly Parton.

His punishment should have been to be evicted from the auditorium immediately after the attack and his Oscar accepted on his behalf by the presenter without allowing him to speak. Instead he was allowed to bask in the spotlight and oddly received a standing ovation. Any punishment now is...

Apparently Reggie gets slapped on a regular basis and has become desensitized.

I read a couple of different interviews with Oscar voters who seemed to indicate they voted for Encanto (and likely other past animated winners) largely because "my kids love it." So there's not a whole lot of thought going into some of these votes from the actual Academy voter. This seems to be...

Ratings improved from last year, adding nearly 5 million viewers (15 million vs. 10 million), but it was still the second-lowest rated Oscars ever (ahead of last year). The slap probably boosted the numbers in the last hour, too. I was not watching any of it until I read about the attack...

I'm bald. Couldn't care less. My mother's hair became really thin as she aged. It bothered her so she got a hairpiece/wig. Life goes on. If hair loss bothers you, male or female, there are options. Pinkett is rich enough to have any treatment she wants. If she's content to walk around with a...

I'm unaware of any criminal statutes that provide a list of the situations when it's OK to lay your hands on another person in a violent manner (aside from self-defense). As far as I know, any unwanted physical contact with violent intent is against the law.

This was her first Oscar for directing. Her prior Oscar was for screenplay (she was nominated for The Piano, but that was the year of Schindler's List and Steven Speilberg won for Best Director).

Just because you don't like what a person says, you have zero right to physically attack them. None. Rock really should have brought the whole show to a standstill and demanded that Smith be escorted out of the building by security. He was physically attacked on a live worldwide broadcast. If...

I didn't watch until the very end, but I did notice a sound dropout during the closing moments. I'm also on Spectrum.

So I believe CODA won all three awards for which it was nominated, but I think the big winner of the night (quantity) was Dune with 6 Oscars.

I believe she won the SAG award, too, so apparently her peers thought she did.

So after all the efforts to speed up the show, we're still left with a running time of 3 hours 40 minutes.

The question is, will they arrest Will Smith for assault before they announce Best Actor?

Lots of questionable choices of clothing on the red carpet (I paged though the pics at EW). Also many people apparently there that don't seem to have any connection to the movies nominated (especially music people). Megan Thee Stallion? DJ Khaled? Shawn Mendes?

from King Richard.

Deadline and presumably others have already started reporting the early pre-show results, so if you really want to be surprised it would be best to do as Jake says and stay away from the internet and just watch the show on ABC.

Disney blames the Snow White shooting schedule. Apparently the Oscars are secondary to them staying on schedule so they were trying to keep her in London:

I read somewhere that she was shooting a project in London, so it might not make logistical sense for her to attend just to make an "appearance" anyway.

Adding "Bruno" sounds like it would be in-line with what ABC wants for the broadcast. Reports have been they wanted to add more musical numbers, comedy bits, etc., and get rid of the old boring, stuffy awards parts.

Yep, if no one shows up, they wouldn't have much of a show.

Maybe one of the streamers would air it. I know Amazon has shown live events, do any of the others? Now that their films are being nominated, they should have an interest in showing the ceremony and ratings don't really matter to them. I think the bigger issue mentioned in the article is that...