Academy moves hearing to discuss Will Smith’s Oscars slap forward

Will Smith attending the Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Doug Peters/PA)

The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved its meeting to address Will Smith’s actions at the Oscars forward to this Friday in a bid to deal with the incident “in a timely fashion”.

President David Rubin wrote to the board of governors on Wednesday morning saying the meeting, originally scheduled for April 18, would now take place 10 days earlier.