The Oscars are set for Sunday, March 12. Thankfully, Will Smith has gone back to cranking out crappy movies, so he’s not nominated for a statue this year, and even if he was, he’s been banned for ten years after violently assaulting Chris Rock onstage in last year’s show. But, what if someone made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, during the opening of the show, and Will rushed to the Dolby Theatre, kicked down the door, and made his way to the stage to remind the culprit to, “Keep my wife’s name out of your f***ing mouth!” Is the Academy prepared for this possibility?
Yes, they are. The CEO, Bill Kramer, told Time Magazine that they are ready for Will or another maniac who tries to rush the stage at this previously dignified event.
“We have a whole crisis team, something we’ve never had before, and many plans in place. We’ve run many scenarios. So it is our hope that we will be prepared for anything that we may not anticipate right now but that we’re planning for just in case it does happen.”
There’s something mildly amusing about the head of the Academy Awards doing an interview with Time Magazine. Do they know it’s not 1986 anymore?
If it were, then the Oscars would still be an entertaining and watchable show with humor, comedy, light moments, and zero violence. But this is 2023, and what we have now is a roomful of insufferable people in the filmmaking world so angst-ridden and woke that they’ve destroyed an outstanding American and Hollywood tradition for most people.
But the crisis management team is ready and in place. Here’s more from what Kramer told the magazine most people had no idea it still existed, and fewer people actually read it.
“Because of last year, we’ve opened our minds to the many things that can happen at the Oscars. But these crisis plans — the crisis communication teams and structures we have in place — allow us to say, ‘This is the group that we have to gather very quickly. This is how we all come together. This is the spokesperson. This will be the statement.’ And obviously, depending on the specifics of the crisis, and let’s hope something doesn’t happen and we never have to use these, but we already have frameworks in place that we can modify.”
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