A comprehensive list of everyone who has been banned from attending the Oscars

• In 2022, Will Smith was suspended from the Academy Awards for 10 years Beat Chris Rock on stage.

• The actor isn’t the first to face bans, although most bans have only come in recent years.

• Insider rounded up everyone expelled or disciplined by the organization behind the awards.

Awards season is heating up this weekend, with the 95th Academy Awards takes place on Sunday at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles.

However, as audiences no doubt already know, there will be a notable absence this year Will Smith received a 10-year ban after his “unacceptable and harmful” conduct on stage last year when he slapped host Chris Rock.

Smith isn’t the only one actually banned from attending Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences events like the Oscars, as prior to his headline-grabbing outburst, six other men also received bans.

Here is a comprehensive list of everyone who has been disfellowshipped or banned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

In 1993, Richard Gere was banned for 20 years for deviating from the script and speaking at the awards ceremony about the Chinese government’s occupation of Tibet.

Gere found himself in the Oscars doghouse 30 years ago when he decided to use his position as the presenter of this year’s Best Artistic Direction award to criticize the “horrible, appalling human rights situation” in Tibet, completely ignoring it the script on the teleprompter he should read that he jokingly compared artists like Michelangelo and Monet to art directors.

Gere even summoned the late Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping and urged the audience to send the leader “love and truth and some kind of reason” so that he could “expel the Chinese from Tibet and allow the people to live like this again free, independent people.”

The ‘Pretty Woman’ actor was reportedly faced with a 20-year ban for his controversial speech, but it appears this wasn’t enforced as he was there in 2003 when the musical ‘Chicago’ was nominated and won best picture , and in 2013, when he was again invited to be a presenter.

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Gere made the situation easy while talking to him Huffington Post in 2013. “Apparently I was rehabilitated,” he said. “It seems if you stay here long enough, they forget they banned you.”

Carmine Caridi was banned for life in 2004 for illegally distributing VHS copies of the nominees, including “Something’s Gotta Give” and “The Last Samurai.”

The late actor, best known for small roles in the last two films of The Godfather trilogy, was banned for life in 2004 for illegally circulating VHS copies of the year’s nominees he voted for the Academy had sent.

In conversation with The Hollywood ReporterCaridi spoke openly about the situation, admitting he was arrested for making the mistake of lending his tapes — something he claims “everyone” did — to a man who was at the time was a notorious film pirate.

“A guy from the Academy called and said, ‘Carmine, did someone steal your screenings? Because they found her on the internet,’” Caridi recalled. “Then I called Sprague and said, ‘Hey! What have you done? I’m in trouble here.'”

While the case was under investigation by the FBI and Caridi with a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Sony and Warner Bros.he was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing. The Academy wasn’t so lenient, claiming that Caridi did it breach his agreement to protect their screeners.

A month after Bill Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, the academy issued a permanent ban on him.

Shortly thereafter, Bill Cosby, once considered “America’s father” for his role on the sitcom The Cosby Show, was convicted of drug abuse and assault Ex-basketball player Andrea Constand In 2018, the Academy announced their decision to ban him under their newly reviewed standards of conduct.

In an official statement, the Academy stated: “The Board continues to promote ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values ​​of respect for human dignity.”

Cosby – who served three years in prison before his conviction was overturned – never publicly responded to the academy’s decision. The 85-year-old comedian now faces further charges after five women filed complaints another sexual assault lawsuit against him in December 2022.

Concurrent with Cosby’s ban, the Academy announced that it would also ban Roman Polanski over historical allegations of sexual assault.

Roman Polansky received a long-overdue lifetime ban in 2018, in what many see as a knee-jerk reaction to the #MeToo movement.

The filmmaker, who has lived in exile in Europe since fleeing the US in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, won best director in 2003 for The Pianist, though his abuse allegations were widely known at the time .

Adam Kimmel was convicted of rape before joining the academy in 2007. He was only expelled in 2021.

Adam Kimmel, a cinematographer known for his work on Lars and the Real Girl and Capote, was expelled from the academy in 2021 when it was revealed he had previously been arrested for assaulting two minors and was accepted into the academy had been registered for sex offenders.

The crimes reportedly happened in 2003 and 2010 diversitybut Kimmel didn’t join AMPAS until 2007 as a member of the film department, meaning the academy didn’t screen him before allowing him to join their ranks.

It was a Exposé by Variety which prompted the organization to take action and remove him. They wrote in a statement at the time that the member selection process “is based on an honor system that relies on the integrity of prospective members, their sponsors and Branch Committee members to disclose disqualifying information,” and that it will “continue” in the future Regularly review the membership selection process to ensure it accurately reflects the Academy’s values.”

Harvey Weinstein, who was once a prominent figure at the Academy Awards, was expelled after multiple allegations of sexual harassment and rape surfaced against him.

Weinstein, who founded and lent a hand with the production company Miramax with his brother Bob brings many Oscar-winning films to lifeIn 2017, he was expelled from AMPAS shortly after allegations against him became known.

In response to the #MeToo movement, the academy held an emergency meeting where the majority voted to remove the disgraced film mogul, though he had not yet been charged.

It would be another three years before he was convicted of third-degree rape and criminal sex offenses of the first degree and imprisoned for 23 years. His sentence was increased to 39 years when he was sentenced to another 16 years 2022 in a separate trial.

A analysis of Oscar acceptance speeches from 1966 to 2016 revealed that Weinstein was thanked or mentioned in 34 award-winning speeches — as many times as God.

In 2022, Will Smith became the first star to be banned for his actions on stage, which the Academy called “unacceptable and harmful.”

Last year’s ceremony almost derailed if Will Smith came on stage and punched presenter Chris Rock across the face to poke fun at Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head with one “GI Jane” joke.

The moment was cut or muted during the US Oscars broadcast, but aired in full in other parts of the world and quickly cemented itself as one of the most shocking moments in Academy Awards history.

Smith tearfully apologized during his acceptance speech for the Best Actor award for his performance in King Richard. “Love Will Make You Do Crazy Things”

However, AMPAS made the decision to ban the actor just weeks later all Academy events for 10 years.

“The 94th Academy Awards should be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who have done incredible work over the past year,” the Academy said in a statement. “However, those moments were overshadowed by the unacceptable and harmful behavior we saw Mr. Smith exhibit on stage.”

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