A crisis response team will be on hand at the Oscars tonight in the event that any controversy occurs for the first time in its history, so it's not likely anything crazy will occur at tonight's award show.
Last year’s show was overshadowed by an altercation between best actor winner Will Smith and host Chris Rock due to a joke the comedian made about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
However, this year, in a bid to make sure that nothing similar happens, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has set up a crisis team.
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Academy Chief Executive Bill Kramer told Time magazine: “It is our hope that we will be prepared for anything. Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars."
However PR to the stars, Mayah Riaz told the Mirror that the crisis team was overkill.
Speaking to the publication, Riaz explained: "The organisers of the Academy Awards clearly want to avoid controversy as they don’t want that to be what we all talk about.
"But for years the Oscars have been dogged by controversy whether it’s gender rows or race rows.
"This year a row’s already begun regarding calls for the Hong Kong actor Donnie Yen to be removed as an Oscars presenter, due to his support for the Chinese government."
She added: "It is a total overkill that this crisis team has been put together. You will never have the same two controversies happen.
"How they deal with each one will totally different from the last one. You can’t stop a controversy from happening.
"Quite frankly we want controversy from the Oscars, otherwise it’s quite a long night one! When something goes wrong, what’s the crisis team going to do?
"They’ll sit in a huddle talking about what to do. It’s live, it’s already gone wrong - in fact we hope it does go wrong."
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