Oscars 2022: Will Smith not facing charges for slapping Chris Rock, says LAPD, as Academy releases statement – as it happened

That’s it from us for this year’s live Oscars coverage. Thanks for reading and commenting. You can see a list of the winners here:

And my colleague Nadia Khomami has the full story on Will Smith striking Chris Rock live on stage:

The author Bernardine Evaristo is among those to have condemned Smith’s actions at the ceremony:

Best actor winner Will Smith apologised in his acceptance speech for striking presenter Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaven head.

Accepting the Oscar for his role as Richard Williams, the father of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, in King Richard, Smith apologised to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and his fellow nominees but not to Rock.

“Richard Williams was a fierce defender of his family,” a tearful Smith said and continued: “Love will make you do crazy things’, adding: ‘I hope the academy invites me back.”

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Stars are arriving at the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party:

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The ballgown is dead. Long live the simple white shirt. The look that will go down in history from this year’s Oscar ceremony is a crisp white shirt. And not only because both Will Smith and Chris Rock were wearing them during that incident, but because the best dressed on the red carpet passed on the fairytale frocks and chose white shirts instead.

Here’s a reminder of the moment when Ariana DeBose made history as the first openly queer woman of colour to win an acting Oscar:

In case you’re just landing, here’s a look at a full list of the night’s winners:

Will Smith won his first Oscar tonight (after being nominated twice before) for tennis drama King Richard, where he plays Richard Williams, father to Venus and Serena.

To coincide with its release last year, David Smith spoke to those who knew the real Richard:

The video montage you’ve been waiting for:

Rob Reiner is #TeamChris then

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While the parties continue to rage on, here’s a taste of what it feels like to get drunk next to an Oscar-winner:

Best actress winner Jessica Chastain gave one of the night’s most powerful speeches, sending hope to LGBTQ youth at risk in memory of the televangelist turned gay activist she played in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.

Here’s some background on the real woman and the work she did:

Tiffany Haddish has defended Will Smith’s on-stage behaviour tonight at the Governor’s Ball.

“When I saw a Black man stand up for his wife,” she said to People. “That meant so much to me. As a woman, who has been unprotected, for someone to say like, ‘Keep my wife’s name out your mouth, leave my wife alone,’ that’s what your husband is supposed to do, right? Protect you. And that meant the world to me. And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it was the most beautiful thing I ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives.”

Here’s a look back at this year’s predictable set of winners and unpredictable turn of events from Peter Bradshaw:

The video and the memes and the celebrity reactions might have done the rounds but here’s a longer look at what led to tonight’s bizarre confrontation:

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