Academy’s new ‘crisis team’ ‘will be prepared for anything’ at this year’s Oscars
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Academy’s new ‘crisis team’ ‘will be prepared for anything’ at this year’s Oscars

LA Times  

Will Smith slaps Chris Rock onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on March 27, 2022. Bill Kramer, the chief executive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, announced the addition of a “crisis team” to help manage the response to any unexpected incidents during the awards show. “We have a whole crisis team, something we’ve never had before, and many plans in place,” Kramer told Time in an interview published Tuesday. 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.” Since Will Smith stepped onstage and hit Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith — Kramer said the academy has since “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,” Kramer said. But you have to have the teams and frameworks in place and the processes in place, to come together to figure things out quickly.” Last week during the annual nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hilton, Academy President Janet Yang addressed lingering concerns about the Smith incident and seemingly previewed the academy’s addition of the crisis team.

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