The Entertainment Industry's Inconsistencies With Celebrity Behavior
Newsy
The Academy is facing criticism over the harshness of their Will Smith decision after comparison with their response to other members' behavior.
Less than two weeks after the now-infamous Oscar slap, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences banned actor Will Smith from any Academy event — including the Oscars — for 10 years.
That swift punishment and condemnation of violence was met with immediate criticism over the Academy’s long history celebrating men charged with assault.
An editorial in the Boston Herald referred to the Academy’s response as “selective outrage,” as producers like Harvey Weinstein, whose years of sexual misconduct was an open secret in Hollywood, has collected over 80 Academy Awards for his films and directors like Roman Polanski — who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl — won the Oscar for best director in 2003. The Academy gave his win a standing ovation.
