Oscars 2022: Will Smith best actor, Jessica Chastain best actress

The Oscars 2022 winners were announced on Sunday night. Jessica Chastain and Will Smith were awarded for being the best actress and best actor. It’s the first Oscar for Chastain in three nominations. She was previously nominated for “Zero Dark Thirty” in 2013 and “The Help” in 2012. She beat out fellow nominees Olivia Colman, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Kristen Stewart.

Chastain noted that suicide was a leading cause of death for the LGBTQ community and violence against minorities, saying she was inspired by Bakker’s compassion. Smith won the Oscar for best actor for portraying Venus and Serena Williams’ father Richard in the tennis biopic “King Richard.

After he earned his golden statuette, Smith sparked controversy at the gala by storming onstage and slapping Rock, who made a joke about the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith beat Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”), Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”), Andrew Garfield (“tick, tick…BOOM!”) and Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”).

 

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