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Will Smith received another award for his performance in King Richard three months after the Oscars incident. At Sunday’s BET Awards, Smith won Best Actor for Sports Drama, which also won Best Picture, although he did not attend the awards screening to concede victory in person.
Will Smith received another award for his performance in King Richard three months after the Oscars incident. At Sunday’s BET Awards, Smith won Best Actor for Sports Drama, which also won Best Picture, although he did not attend the awards screening to concede victory in person.
Other actors in the category (which includes TV shows) were Adrian Holmes and Jabari Banks for Bel Air, Anthony Anderson for Black, Damson Idris for Snowfall, Denzel Washington for Macbeth Tragedy, Forest Whitaker for Respect, and The Godfather of Harlem and Sterling K. Brown for This Is Us.
Smith also previously won a BAFTA, Golden Globe, NAACP Image Award, SAG Award, Critics Choice Award, and Oscar for King Richard, in which he plays tennis player Serena Williams’s father Richard Williams.
His big Oscar victory was overshadowed when he came on stage and hit Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith who suffers from alopecia. Will explained in a statement days later that he “reacted emotionally.”
“I want to apologize publicly, Chris. I was off the line and I made a mistake. I am ashamed and my actions were not indicative of the man I want to be. There is no place for violence in a world of love. and kindness, ”the actor added, also resigning from the Academy, which later banned him from attending their ceremonies for the next 10 years.
