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Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Will Smith‘s infamous Oscars slap in his hilarious opening monologue at the 2023 ceremony on Sunday.

The host, 55, quipped about the shocking moment, Nicole Kidman‘s brand deal with AMC Theatres and diet drug Ozempic as he opened the show with a barbed speech.

Smith sent shockwaves around the world when he slapped Rock onstage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – with Smith later winning the Best Actor gong.

He said: ‘If anyone in this theater commits an act of violence at any point during the show, you will be awarded the Oscar for best actor and permitted to give a 19-minute long speech. 

‘But seriously, the Academy has a crisis team in place. If anything unpredictable or violent happens during the ceremony, just do what you did last year. 

‘Nothing. Sit there and do absolutely nothing. Maybe even give the assailant a hug.’

No holds barred! Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Will Smith's infamous Oscars slap in his hilarious opening monologue at the 2023 ceremony on Sunday

No holds barred! Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Will Smith’s infamous Oscars slap in his hilarious opening monologue at the 2023 ceremony on Sunday

Slap: Smith, 54, sent shockwaves around the world when he slapped Rock, 58, onstage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head - with Kimmel, 55, keen to make light of the incident

Slap: Smith, 54, sent shockwaves around the world when he slapped Rock, 58, onstage after he made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – with Kimmel, 55, keen to make light of the incident

Referencing Will Smith’s 1997 single Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It, he continued: ‘And if any of you get mad at a joke and decide you want to get jiggy with it – it’s not going to be easy. 

The camera then flipped to stars including Michael B.Jordan, Andrew Garfield and Steven Spielberg, as Kimmel said: ‘A few of my friends you have to get through first. You are going to have to get through the heavyweight champ, Adonis Creed.

‘You are going to have to do battle with Michelle Yeoh before you get to me. You are going to have to beat The Mandalorian before you get to me. You are going to have to tangle with Spider-Man. You are going to have to  tangle with Fabelman. And then you’re going to have to go through my right-hand man, Guillermo, if you want to get up to this stage. Oh, wait a minute — well, I should say — the other Guillermo. Not del Toro.

Elsewhere in the speech Kimmel quipped about Nicole Kidman’s iconic adverts with AMC, saying: ‘I am happy to see that Nicole Kidman has finally been released from that abandoned AMC – where she has been held captive for almost two full years now. 

Lol: Elsewhere in the speech Kimmel quipped about Nicole Kidman's iconic adverts with AMC, saying: 'I am happy to see that Nicole Kidman has finally been released from that abandoned AMC - where she has been held captive for almost two full years now'

Lol: Elsewhere in the speech Kimmel quipped about Nicole Kidman’s iconic adverts with AMC, saying: ‘I am happy to see that Nicole Kidman has finally been released from that abandoned AMC – where she has been held captive for almost two full years now’

Shots fired: No-one was safe in the epic opener, as Kimmel took aim at scrapped $100m Warner Bros film, Batgirl and box office bomb, Babylon

Shots fired: No-one was safe in the epic opener, as Kimmel took aim at scrapped $100m Warner Bros film, Batgirl and box office bomb, Babylon

Good to have you back, Nicole. And thank you for encouraging people who were already at the movie theater to go to the movie theater. You look great. ‘

Joking about Hollywood’s new favorite diet drug, he added: ‘Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder, is Ozempic right for me?’ 

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No-one was safe in the epic opener, as Kimmel took aim at scrapped $100m Warner Bros film, Batgirl and box office bomb, Babylon. 

He said: ‘Is the gang from Babylon here? They know. I was just asking if they were I was welcoming them. At least Babylongot released. Batgirl became the first superhero to be defeated by an accounting department.’

Batgirl directors El Arbi and Fallah wrote in a statement on Instagram: ‘We are saddened and shocked by the news. We still can’t believe it’

The decision to axe the film — which was slated to be released on HBO Max later this year — came after a series of test screenings were panned by audiences

Top Gun: Maverick has been nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, in a sign that Hollywood is finally listening to audiences and honoring box office hits instead of arthouse favorites.

The movie starring Tom Cruise is nominated for Best Picture along with Elvis, Avatar: The Way of Water, All Quiet On The Western Front and The Fabelmans.

While Cruise missed out on a nomination for Best Actor, the nomination for Best Picture could bring him his first Academy Award.  

However, Everything Everywhere All At Once led the pack with the most nominations with 11 and The Banshees of Inisherin earned nine nominations. The two films swept the Golden Globes earlier this month.

. Top Gun: Maverick has been nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture

Flying high: Top Gun: Maverick has been nominated for six Oscars including Best Picture, in a sign that Hollywood is finally listening to audiences and honoring box office hits instead of arthouse favorites 

Elvis, by Baz Luhrmann, has eight nominations, including one for Austin Butler. 

Best Actress at the Oscars will be a toss-up between Cate Blanchett in Tár and Michelle Yeoh, who won the award at the Golden Globes for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. 

Ana De Armas also earned a nomination for her portrayal of Marilyn Monroe in Blonde.  

While Cruise missed out on a nomination for Best Actor, Austin Butler (Elvis), Brendan Fraser (The Whale) and Bill Nighy (Living) all received nods. 

All Quiet On The Western Front, a German-produced film, earned multiple nominations, as did Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, including Best Original Song.

Angela Bassett is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as is Jamie Lee Curtis for Everything Everywhere All At Once.

Winners will be voted on by the roughly 10,000 actors, producers, directors and film craftspeople who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The academy added more women and people of color to its ranks after the #OscarsSoWhite uproars of 2015 and 2016, and it increased membership from outside the United States.

Big favourite: However, Everything Everywhere All At Once is leading the pack with the most nominations with 11

Big favorite: However, Everything Everywhere All At Once led the pack with the most nominations with 11 

This year, seven of the 20 acting nominees were people of color, including Yeoh’s Everything Everywhere All At Once castmates Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Quan.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences will surely celebrate a best-picture field populated with blockbusters; according to data firm Comscore, their collective domestic box office of $1.574 billion is the most ever at the time of nominations. 

Last year’s awards had been looking like a comeback edition before ‘the slap’ came to define the ceremony. In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years. 

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Though he could have still been nominated, Smith’s performance as a runaway slave in Emancipation didn’t catch on with voters.

Notorious: Last year's awards had been looking like a comeback edition before 'the slap' came to define the ceremony. In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years

Notorious: Last year’s awards had been looking like a comeback edition before ‘the slap’ came to define the ceremony. In the aftermath, the academy banned Will Smith from attending for the next 10 years

But larger concerns are swirling around the movie business. Last year saw flashes of triumphant resurrection for theaters, like the success of Top Gun: Maverick, but less stellar results for most dramas.

Partially due to an inconsistent stream of major releases, ticket sales for the year recovered only about 70 percent of pre-pandemic business. 

Stocks for streaming services, meanwhile, have plunged as Wall Street looked to streaming services to earn profits, not just add subscribers.

Oscars 2023: Full list of 95th Academy Awards winners

Best Picture

All Quiet on the Western Front

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Banshees of Inisherin

Elvis

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The Fabelmans

TÁR

Top Gun: Maverick

Triangle of Sadness

Women Talking

 

Best Director

Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Todd Field – TÁR

Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness

 

Best Actor

Austin Butler – Elvis

Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Brendan Fraser – The Whale

Paul Mescal -Aftersun

Bill Nighy – Living

 

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – TÁR

Ana de Armas – Blonde

Andrea Riseborough -To Leslie

Michelle Williams – The Fabelmans

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

 

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

Brian Tyree Henry – Causeway

Judd Hirsch – The Fabelmans

Barry Keoghan – The Banshees of Inisherin

Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All at Once

 

Best Supporting Actress

Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Hong Chau – The Whale

Kerry Condon – The Banshees of Inisherin

Jamie Lee Curtis – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Stephanie Hsu – Everything Everywhere All at Once

 

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, and Ian Stokell – All Quiet on the Western Front

Rian Johnson – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Kazuo Ishiguro – Living

Screenplay by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks – Top Gun: Maverick

Sarah Polley – Women Talking

 

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner – The Fabelmans

Todd Field – TÁR

Ruben Östlund – Triangle of Sadness

 

Best Animated Feature Film

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio -WINNER

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

The Sea Beast

Turning Red

 

Best International Feature Film

All Quiet on the Western Front

Argentina, 1985

Close

EO

The Quiet Girl

 

Best Documentary Feature

All That Breathes

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Fire of Love

A House Made of Splinters

Navalny

 

Best Film Editing

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, The Banshees of Inisherin

Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond, Elvis

Paul Rogers, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Monika Willi, TÁR

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Eddie Hamilton, Top Gun: Maverick

 

Best Cinematography

James Friend – All Quiet on the Western Front

Darius Khondji – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Mandy Walker – Elvis

Roger Deakins – Empire of Light

Florian Hoffmeister – TÁR

Best Costume Design

Mary Zophres – Babylon

Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Catherine Martin – Elvis

Shirley Kurata – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Jenny Beavan – Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

 

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová – All Quiet on the Western Front

Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, and Mike Fontaine – The Batman

Camille Friend and Joel Harlow – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Mark Coulier, Jason Baird, and Aldo Signoretti – Elvis

Adrien Morot, Judy Chin, and Anne Marie Bradley – The Whale

 

Best Production Design

Christian M. Goldbeck and Ernestine Hipper – All Quiet on the Western Front

Dylan Cole, Ben Procter, and Vanessa Cole – Avatar: The Way of Water

Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino – Babylon

Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, and Bev Dunn – Elvis

Rick Carter and Karen O’Hara – The Fabelmans

 

Best Music (Original Song)

“Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman, music and lyrics by Dianne Warren

“Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, music and lyrics by Lady Gaga and BloodPop

“Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, music and lyrics by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, and Ludwig Goransson

“Naatu Naatu” from RRR, music by M.M. Keeravaani, lyrics by Chandrabose

“This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once, music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski, lyrics by Ryan Lott

 

Best Music (Original Score)

Volker Bertelmann – All Quiet on the Western Front

Justin Hurwitz – Babylon

Carter Burwell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Son Lux – Everything Everywhere All at Once

John Williams – The Fabelmans

 

Best Sound

Viktor Prášil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel, and Stefan Korte – All Quiet on the Western Front

Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, and Michael Hedges – Avatar: The Way of Water

Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray, and Andy Nelson – The Batman

David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson, and Michael Keller – Elvis

Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon, and Mark Taylor – Top Gun: Maverick

 

Best Visual Effects

Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank, and Kamil Jafar – All Quiet on the Western Front

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett – Avatar: The Way of Water

Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands, and Dominic Tuohy – The Batman

Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White, and Dan Sudick – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson, and Scott R. Fisher – Top Gun: Maverick

 

Best Animated Short Film

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

The Flying Sailor

Ice Merchants

My Year of Dicks

An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake, and I Think I Believe It

 

Best Live Action Short Film

An Irish Goodbye

Ivalu

Le Pupille

Night Ride

The Red Suitcase

 

Best Documentary Short

The Elephant Whisperers

Haulout

How Do You Measure a Year?

The Martha Mitchell Effect

Stranger at the Gate

 

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