Will Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actor on Sunday, for ‘King Richard,’ but his career-defining win was overshadowed by an incident that occurred just minutes earlier.
After presenter Chris Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss, Smith unexpectedly walked onto the stage and smacked Rock on live TV. In his acceptance speech, Smith made several oblique references to the incident, including an apology ‘to the Academy.’
