2022 Oscars Live Updates: Will Smith punches Chris Rock after Jada Pinkett Smith G.I. Jane joke

The 2022 Oscars is happening right now and using this page you can get the live updates of who the big winners are! The ceremony is hosted by Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes.

In a shocking turn of events, the 2022 Oscars will also be the day the world will remember Will Smith striking Chris Rock on the Oscar stage. Find out more about it below.

Will Smith punches Chris Rock

After Chris Rock delivered a joke about Will Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, starring in the next G. I. Jane movie, Will Smith stood up for his wife by walking on stage and delivering a K.O. punch. Chris Rock, while shocked like everyone else who didn’t see it coming, held his composure and managed to finish the awards segment for the Best Documentary Feature. Jada Smith suffers from alopecia, a condition which causes hair loss. Check out the jaw-dropping moment here.

2022 Oscars Winners

The nominees for the 2022 Oscars were announced last 8th February 2022 by actors Tracee Ellis Ross and Leslie Jordan. And now for the winners of the 94th Academy Awards…

Best Picture: CODA

Moments after Will Smith slapped and swore at Chris Rock for his G.I. Jane joke, CODA was announced as the Best Picture winner this year.

Other nominees:

Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Actor: Will Smith (King Richard)

Will Smith was in tears when he accepted his Best Actor Award, which came in an hour after he punched Chris Rock for joking about his wife’s hair loss, which is caused by a medical condition. Seemingly referring to the previous Chris Rock incident, he called himself a “fierce defender” of his family, much like his character in King Richard.

Other nominees:

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)

Best Actress: Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)

Other nominees:

Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)
Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)

Best Director: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)

Other nominees:

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

Best Original Screenplay: Belfast

Other nominees:

Licorice Pizza
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
The Worst Person in the World

Best Adapted Screenplay: CODA

Other nominees:

The Power of the Dog
The Lost Daughter
Drive My Car
Dune

Best Original Song: No Time to Die (No Time to Die)

Other nominees:

Dos Oruguitas (Encanto)
Just Look Up (Don’t Look Up)
Down to Joy (Belfast)
Somehow You Do (Four Good Days)

Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Other nominees:

Flee
Attica
Writing With Fire
Ascension

Best International Feature: Drive My Car

Other nominees:

Flee
The Worst Person in the World
The Hand of God
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Best Animated Feature: Encanto

Other nominees:

The Mitchells vs The Machines
Flee
Raya and the Last Dragon
Luca

Best Cinematography: Dune

Other nominees:

Nightmare Alley
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Supporting Actress: Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)

Other nominees:

Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Judi Dench (Belfast)

Best Supporting Actor: Troy Kotsur (CODA)

Other nominees:

Ciaran Hinds (Belfast)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)

Best Visual Effects: Dune

Other nominees:

Free Guy
No Time to Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Best Costume Design: Cruella

Other nominees:

Dune
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story
Cyrano

Best Live Action Short Film: The Long Goodbye

Other nominees:

On My Mind
Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Please Hold
The Dress