THR has learned that a full meeting of the Academy’s Board of Governors has been called for Wednesday evening, where the matter of Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock onstage at the ceremony is expected to be topic number one
The first post-Oscars board meeting always features a postmortem of the ceremony and addresses issues which arose during the show but does not usually happen this soon after the ceremony.
Some sanction of Smith is likely to come — perhaps a suspension of his Academy membership, as some members are calling for, but, in all likelihood, not the revocation of his best actor Oscar, as others would like to see. (Even
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