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With a positive Q Score of 39 in January of 2022, Smith had ranked in the top five or top 10 most positively ranked actors pre-slap, which, Q Scores executive vice president Henry Schafer told Variety, put him alongside stars such as Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington*.
Ultimately, however, he and Emancipation were snubbed by the Academy. On March 1, at the African American Film Critics Association Awards, Smith gave his first in-person awards acceptance speech since his Oscars controversy.
As co-writer and co-producer of the HBO sitcom Veep, he was among the recipients of two Emmys and two Writers Guild of America Awards, and has received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Episodic Comedy.
Which actor has the most Oscar wins ever? Katherine Hepburn, with four Academy Awards wins, is the actress with the most Oscars. She was nominated 12 times and won for 1933's Morning Glory, 1967's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1968's The Lion in Winter and 1981's On Golden Pond.
2022 Oscars incident. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) said that Smith was asked to leave the ceremony but he refused. Later in the night, Smith was named Best Actor for King Richard and apologized to the Academy and the other nominees, but not to Rock, in his acceptance speech.