The Latest Breaking News from Oscars

Will Smith and Chris Rock’s feud over Jada dates back much farther than the Oscars slap

Jada Pinkett Smith reveals her relationship with Chris Rock goes far beyond infamous Oscars slap

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023

Jada Pinkett Smith responds to ‘ridiculous’ rumours blaming her for Oscars slap

Pinkett Smith says she ‘understood’ why she was blamed ‘considering the false narrative that I had cheated on Will’

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023

Jada Pinkett Smith says Chris Rock asked her out on a date amid Will divorce rumours

The star’s husband infamously slapped Rock at the 2022 Oscars after he made a joke about her alopecia

Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2023

Jada Pinkett Smith reveals first words she said to Will after Oscars slap

The 2022 Academy Awards were thrown into turmoil after Will walked on stage and slapped presenter Chris Rock

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2023

Jada Pinkett Smith says she and Will Smith have lived separately since 2016

Actor says she and husband – banned from Oscars after hitting Chris Rock – are not romantically together although they have not divorced

The Guardian - US · Oct 11, 2023

A timeline of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s relationship amid separation

Following an ‘entanglement’ and infamous Oscars ‘slap’, the Hollywood couple has revealed they’ve been separated for seven years

The Independent UK · Oct 11, 2023

Shayda director Noora Niasari on family violence, Iranian liberation and taking her first film to the Oscars

As a child, the Australian director fled family violence with her mother. Now she’s storming the global festival circuit with a movie about their past

The Guardian - AU · Oct 1, 2023

Leslie Jones reveals friend Chris Rock sought counselling after Will Smith Oscars slap

‘That s**t was humiliating. It really affected him,’ Jones told People magazine

Evening Standard · Sep 19, 2023

Sean Penn: Will Smith slap wouldn’t have happened if Oscars had let Zelenskiy speak

The actor, whose documentary Superpower is about Ukraine’s president, spoke in an interview about Smith’s ‘worst moment as a person’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2023

Sean Penn says Will Smith slap wouldn’t have happened if Volodymyr Zelensky was at the Oscars

‘Will Smith would never have left that chair to be part of stupid violence,’ actor claimed

The Independent UK · Sep 13, 2023