Two other AP reporters were in regular audience seats and I was glad.
Was this a side story, or THE story? There was no template.
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We journalists had to decide how to treat it. They weren't alone in not knowing how to respond. The Academy recently apologized for not taking swifter action with Smith. It reminded me of being in a classroom when the students realize that the fun teacher really is mad this time. NAME." - that it became clear this was no joke. It was only the second time Smith said it, louder and emphasizing each word - “MY. The titters remained even after Smith shouted for Rock to keep Jada Pinkett Smith's name out of his mouth. The audience laughter was nervous, but laughter there was. In retrospect, this was a huge moment - but when it happened, few could tell it wasn't a planned bit. Tasked with pounding out a quick story, I was sitting down typing when I saw, on one of the crew monitors, Smith stride up on stage and take his swing.
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Full disclosure: I did not see, with my naked eyes, Will Smith strike Chris Rock. It was the closest thing to a scoop the box has given me, and my tweet describing it was my most popular ever, by a mile.įive years in came the slap. With all eyes on the stage, and few others with my view, it went unnoticed by almost all others. When "Green Book" was announced as the winner, Lee gave the kind of "the hell with this" gesture with his arms he often gives NBA referees, stormed out of his seat and headed for the back doors.
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In 2019, Lee - clad in a purple suit - won his first competitive Oscar, for writing “Black KkKlansman.” His movie was also up for best picture, against the late-surging "Green Book,” a film that to Lee and many others had an archaic, simplistic take on race relations. And he is just as animated as when he sits courtside at New York Knicks games. For one, he always dresses distinctively, making him easy to spot in a sea of black tuxedos that - from my perch - can make it hard to immediately tell a Brad from a Leo. The best audience member to watch, from my perspective, is Spike Lee. They get back to their seats before the cameras roll.
They rise in surprising synchrony for standing ovations. The crowd at the Oscars does an excellent job of playing the role of “audience.” They hit every unspoken applause cue. When Timberlake gave his show-opening performance of “Can't Stop the Feeling,” Javier Bardem was the only one wholeheartedly dancing the entire time. In 2017, I saw Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel passing a flask to the people in their row, clearly having the best time in the room. Trips to the bathroom, which require the accompaniment of a show staffer and a climb past a guy who runs a big crane camera, are their own adventure, with hopes - sometimes realized - that I might end up standing silently next to the likes of Denzel Washington. One year, I could hear the shouts of glee from the proud mother of a victorious sound editor, though I could barely see her even through binoculars. I got to see how truly long the walk from the theater's back is for the non-famous. I saw an 88-year-old Christopher Plummer, the oldest-ever nominee at that point in 2018, take his spot over an hour before the last-minute scramble that accompanies the telecast's start. One year it was Jane Fonda, amid a sea of empty seats. I deal in details.įrom the box, I got to see who the first famous folks seated are: generally, older actors with either no need or no desire to be part of the red carpet scrum. Turned out it only took five.īig moments are not generally my job. "I will never see anything this crazy again if I do this for 20 years," I thought to myself. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson had on a crooked expression that, in his wrestling days, he called "the people's eyebrow." The mouths of Meryl Streep, Matt Damon and Michelle Williams were all varying degrees of agape. I'm not sure anyone had ever seen as many stunned famous faces as I was suddenly looking down on after the true victory of " Moonlight " was revealed. The alleged winners' celebration soon turned to murmurs of confusion. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway had just announced "La La Land" as best picture. It was 2017, my first time inside the Academy Awards.
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