the sweetest little boy, he s, like, you know, we came home, and it is like he had stayed up late to see his uncle will, you know, and we re sitting in my kitchen, and he s on my lap and he s holding the oscar, and he s just, like, why did you hit that man, uncle will? you know, why are you trying to oprah me? so, in the wake of the incident, the academy voted to ban smith from the oscars for ten years after he resigned. i wonder what you thought about that and then i ll share a little personal story. what did you think? i want to hear the story first, but i want to give a little context to this, that just because of the segment we were last talking about, he s currently promoting a film. the film does take place in sort of a slavery era. and there is actually a kind of
reporter: oscar winning super-star will smith banned by the academy for from attending the oscars for ten years. for infamous slap heard round the world. that was a nice one. okay. uh-oh. oh wow. wow. the decision to ban smith for a decade came after a meeting friday of the board of governors on the academy of motion picture arts and science. board member telling cnn there was quote tons of debate on what the consequences for smith should be. i m a little surprised that he got a ten year ban. i m not surprised this was the way they went. i knew they would give i believed they would give a long term ban. i thought maybe three to five years. because i think it was incumbent to send a message. this was actual punishment there would be accountability. uncensored feed from a japanese out let the night of the oscars, shows how chris rock
superstar will smith banned by the academy from attending the oscars for ten years for the now infamous slap heard around the world. that was a okay. i m out here, uh-oh. [ laughter ] oh, wow. wow. reporter: the decision to ban smith for a decade came after a meeting friday of the board of governors of the academy motion picture arts and sciences. a board member telling cnn there was, quo, tons of debate on what the consequences for smith should be. i m a little surprised that he got a tone-year ban but i m not surprised this is the way they went. i knew they would give i believe they had would give a long-term ban. i thought, three, five years. because i think it was incumbent on them to send some kind of message that this was actual punishment that there would be account eight. reporter: an uncensored feed from a japanese network shows how chris rock and will smith
oh, wow. wow. reporter: the decision to ban smith for a decade came after a meeting friday after the board of governors of the academy of arts and sciences and a board member telling cnn that there were tons the of debate of what the consequences for smith should be. i am surprised that he got a 10-year ban, but i am not surprised that this is the way they would go, but i knew they would give a long-term ban, and i thought maybe three to five year, because it is incumbent to send some kind of message, that this is actual punishment, and accountability. reporter: an uncensored feed from a japanese feed shows how they talked. will smith just slapped me. keep my wife s name out
despite will smith s appologies and his resignation from the academy, the academy was under extraordinary pressure to send a message here. tonight, oscar winning superstar will smith banned by the academy from attending the oscars for ten years. for the now infamous slap heard around the world. that was a nice one. okay. i m out here uh-oh. oh, wow. wow. the decision to ban smith for a decade comes after a meeting today of the board of governors of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences. a board member telling cnn there was, quote, tons of debate on what the consequences for smith should be. i m a little surprised that he got a ten-year ban, but i m not surprised that this was the way they went. i knew they would give, i believed they would give a long term ban. i thought maybe three, five years. because i think it was incumbent on them to send some kind of message that this was actual